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Curt S. Friedberg

  • Partner
  • Atlanta, GA

Mr. Friedberg draws on his extensive and distinctive experience in operations, finance, technology, sales, and marketing to guide and advise businesses of all sizes, including publicly traded companies, privately held businesses, startups, and non-profit organizations. He has held numerous positions as an owner, employee, or interim executive working with companies to effect change. His expertise has been developed through years of direct, hands-on work in investment banking, venture capital, software application development, supply chain management, financial analysis, strategic consulting, and fundraising, to name a few areas. In particular, Mr. Friedberg’s 16 years of experience in the technology arena enables him to bring a unique perspective to all of his consulting engagements.

Mr. Friedberg has the innate ability to quickly and efficiently identify and analyze a company’s needs, drill down to the core business issues, and apply effective solutions. He has consulted with hundreds of companies across various industries, including healthcare, transportation, automotive, financial services, manufacturing, petroleum, pharmaceutical, real estate, retail, technology, telecommunications, and utilities, among others.

Now Mr. Friedberg serves in a variety of interim executive positions on behalf of GGG Partners clients: CEO, COO, CTO, CIO, CRO, director of reorganization, board of advisors, board of directors, and business consultant. He has successfully turned around distressed businesses, negotiated forbearances with lenders, renegotiated leases with landlords, executed settlements with vendors and suppliers, increased sales, sold businesses, raised capital, integrated information systems, and provided growth plans for numerous companies.

Over the last 5 years, Mr. Friedberg has been entrenched in the trucking industry, in which he has engaged in more than 15 different trucking engagements, helping companies’ large and small work through their financial, operational, technical and sales issues. The extensive network developed as a result of this sector expertise allows him to help each of his clients. Some of his engagements are as follows:

  • $200M refrigerated carrier (Financial Advisor)
  • $100M dry van carrier specializing in Mexican cross border transportation (CEO and CRO under Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization)
  • $100M automotive parts carrier (Director of Reorganization)
  • $70M refrigerated trucking company (Interim CFO and CIO)
  • $120M east of the Mississippi carrier (COO)
  • $150M flatbed carrier (Financial Advisor)
  • $100M warehousing and logistics company (CIO)
  • $70M dry van carrier (Financial Advisor)

Prior to joining GGG Partners in 2003, Mr. Friedberg was the co-owner and vice president of BiT Group Inc., a full-service strategic consulting and Web development professional services firm in Boston. While there, he grew the business from a small regional consulting firm to an organization that was ranked the 155th fastest-growing company (out of the top 500) in 2001 by Inc. Magazine, servicing such companies as Dell, Cisco, Fidelity, and Marsh.

Prior to BiT Group, Mr. Friedberg spent 6 years in healthcare informatics. There he worked with public and private sector payers, providers and patient networks. Coming from a family of physicians, Mr. Friedberg employed his overlapping understanding of the personal, economic and political factions that drive healthcare policy.  Mr. Friedberg was involved in building sales teams, interfacing technology through partnership agreements and driving adoption of cost cutting processes in the healthcare industry. His work offered him the chance to speak with thousands of physicians throughout the country in all aspects of their needs, pains, and processes. 

Prior to his work in Boston, Mr. Friedberg helped grow various technology companies, starting with his work at Atlanta-based Harbinger Corp., which went through a successful public offering in 1995. While at Harbinger, he worked with various agencies on HIPAA compliance and how electronic information would be handled.  Prior to his work in the technology sector, Mr. Friedberg was the founder of the Corporate Finance Institute and worked for Howard, Lawson & Co., a prestigious Philadelphia investment banking and venture capital firm. There he consulted with various companies on capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, and IPOs. Mr. Friedberg started working as a serial entrepreneur which allowed him to apply hands-on experience while funding his education.

This extensive background in a wide variety of business sectors has allowed Mr. Friedberg to develop an extensive network of business contacts in Atlanta, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia.

Awards & Publications

GGG Partners was recognized by the Turnaround Management Association’s Atlanta Chapter for 6 years: 

  • Mr. Friedberg played a significant role in the work that led to the 2004 Turnaround of the Year Award for his work with Life University.
  • As CRO and CEO of USA Dry Van Logistics, Mr. Friedberg successfully reorganized his client through a Chapter 11 and was awarded the 2011 Large Turnaround of the Year.

Community Involvement & Service

Mr. Friedberg has served on boards of directors and has run large-scale fundraisers and events on behalf of various non-profit organizations.

Education

Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Business and Administration, graduated magna cum laude

Drexel University, Commerce and Engineering Co-op Program

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