Team

The MCM Partners Team

MCM Partners is led by Managing Directors Jimmy McGrath and Michael McCracken, with deep experience across M&A, private equity, debt placements, investment banking, venture capital, operating leadership, and corporate development.

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Jimmy McGrath, Managing Director

30 years

M&A · private equity · debt

  • 30 years of experience in M&A and private equity and debt placements

  • Clients have included Fortune 500 companies, privately-held companies, and private equity groups

FORMERLY

  • Managing Director at KPMG Corporate Finance

  • Managing Director at a boutique firm acquired by KPMG CF — led industry group

  • Began career as a corporate/M&A lawyer at Hogan Lovells, a global law firm based in Washington DC and London

  • JD — UVa Law (UVa Law Review, Order of the Coif)

  • BA in Economics — UVa (Phi Beta Kappa)

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Michael McCracken, Managing Director

30 years

Banking · operating leadership

  • 30 years of experience as an investment banker, venture capitalist, and operating CEO, COO, and CFO

FORMERLY

  • Senior banker at DLJ in Los Angeles

  • Co-founded and served as President / COO at UGO Entertainment, sold to Hearst Corporation in 2007

  • Investment Banking Analyst at Salomon Brothers in New York

  • Director of Business Development at Intel Japan in Tsukuba, Japan, reporting to the President

  • MBA — Harvard

  • BA in Foreign Service with Honors in International Business Diplomacy and Japanese language proficiency — Georgetown

Two senior advisors, one focused transaction process.

The MCM team brings company readiness and big-bank M&A execution to founder- and family-owned businesses.