Frontier Investment Banking

For 20 years, Mr. Trysla has been advising private and public clients in Merger & Acquisition and Corporate Finance transactions. Prior to forming Frontier Investment Banking, Mr. Trysla served as a Principal of a regional investment banking firm, where he led the Manufacturing, Distribution and Business Services practice group, providing mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and financial advisory services. He has initiated and consummated mergers, acquisitions, sales, divestitures, recapitalizations and financings across a broad range of industries.

Prior to becoming an investment banker, Mr. Trysla practiced corporate law, specializing in mergers, acquisitions and sale/divestitures of businesses and in corporate finance with the law firms of Linde, Thomson, Langworthy, Kohn & Van Dyke, P.C., Bryan Cave, LLP, and Husch & Eppenberger, LLC, where he chaired the Corporate Practice group of the Kansas City office and served on that firm's Management Committee.

Mr. Trysla holds a BS in Business Administration and a Juris Doctorate Degree, both with highest distinction, from the University of Nebraska.

Mr. McGannon has completed public offering, private placement and acquisition transactions in a variety of industries in his 14 years as an investment banker and six years as an entrepreneur. Prior to joining Frontier Investment Banking, Mr. McGannon served as a Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance with Oppenheimer & Co., an investment banking firm based in New York. He had previously served as Vice President, Corporate Finance for B.C. Christopher & Co. (later acquired by Oppenheimer & Co.) from 1987 to 1991. In 1991 he founded HomeBase, Inc., an information database company based in Chicago which he later successfully sold.

Mr. McGannon received a business degree from Georgetown University and JD and MBA degrees from the University of Kansas where he was a Rice Scholar and served on the Law Review as Associate Editor.

In his over 30 years of financial, strategic and operational experience, George has developed an extraordinary understanding of the fundamental key drivers to a business' profitability and how to manage those drivers through the cyclical nature of businesses and industries. Through his work as an advisor to and with private equity groups and investment banks and his operational experience in functioning, among other roles, as an interim CFO in "turnaround" assignments, George has become an expert in all aspects of a business' finance and operations, particularly those affecting under-performing, financially challenged companies.

Throughout his career, George has worked for, and been an advisor to, some of the larger, more sophisticated private equity firms, including Kohlberg & Company (a spin off from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR)), Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner (GTCR, now Thoma Cressey Bravo), Gryphon Investors, Sterling Partners, Bolder Capital, The Resolute Fund, C3 Capital Partners, Mass Mutual and BancBoston Ventures. He started his career as a Certified Public Accountant back in the early 1970’s with KPMG, which included a two year stint in Brazil, and then founded and served as a senior partner of a regional CPA firm working with privately-held established and emerging growth companies. Since 1989, George has worked in various capacities, including as an investment banker, Chief Financial Officer, and co-founder of a "private equity backed" large medical contract manufacturing company.

From his formal education at Harvard College and Harvard Business School and his over three decades of experience as the founder and operator of two manufacturing companies and a strategic and financial advisory firm, Tom developed an expertise in optimizing business strategy, marketing and operations. Tom's turnaround experience was developed and refined working with both national and international companies in a variety of industries at KPMG, as well as for, and as an advisor to, some of the more sophisticated institutional investors, including Kohlberg & Company (a spin off from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR)), Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner (GTCR, now Thoma Cressey Bravo), Gryphon Investors, Mass Mutual, BancBoston Ventures and C3 Capital Partners. For the last seven years, Tom has supplemented his considerable experience with ongoing advisory engagement with numerous clients, including Harvard University and University of Chicago.

For over a decade, Mr. Baker has been involved in the corporate finance and related financial sectors. Prior to joining Frontier Investment Banking, Mr. Baker spent the majority of his career working for DWS Investments in Chicago focusing on corporate finance and the wholesale distribution of financial products. Mr. Baker also participated in the foundation of one of the largest independent outdoor advertising companies in Chicago, establishing new relationships in the media buying community. Mr. Baker brings a diverse background and a wealth of knowledge and experience in corporate finance and in the financial and media sectors.