For over 20 years, Rod Guinn has served as an advisor to restaurant operators, investors, and lenders, with a focus on developing capital structures which best support operating plans and provide for satisfactory returns to all parties. He has also advised restaurant service providers with an interest in expanding or deepening their presence and value for the industry.

Prior to joining FocalPoint, from late 2005 through early 2008, Mr. Guinn led Wells Fargo Foothill’s Restaurant and Hospitality business. During his tenure, this unit was the fastest-growing provider of debt capital to the restaurant industry, supporting private equity-led transactions, management buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth financings.

Mr. Guinn joined Wells Fargo Foothill from SteppingStone Capital Partners, a private consulting, advisory and investment group of which he was founder and managing director.

Until June of 2004, Mr. Guinn was managing director of FleetBoston Financial’s Restaurant, Food & Beverage Group. Under his leadership, FleetBoston (and its predecessor, BankBoston) became the preeminent provider of debt capital to restaurant investors and operators, and held a prominent role nationally in advising on transactions, raising debt and equity capital for buyouts, mergers, and public and private recapitalizations, and directly investing in select private equity opportunities. He was with FleetBoston Financial and BankBoston for almost seventeen years.

Mr. Guinn currently serves as Board Advisor to FohBoh, Inc., a leading business social network serving the global restaurant industry.

Mr. Guinn is regarded as a leading financial figure within the restaurant industry, and has spoken at numerous industry and capital markets events, including the Restaurant Finance Conference, Capital Roundtable M&A Conference, Restaurant Investment Conference, YPO Foodservice Conference, UCLA Restaurant Conference, AICPA National Forum, and Fulcrum M&A Conference. For several years, he served as Restaurant Subject Matter Expert for the Restaurant section of the annual RMA Industry Imperatives manual, and was a Contributing Editor of the Fulcrum M&A Dictionary. He is a regular source for industry publications.

Mr. Guinn holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Mexico.

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