Sam Norwood

Mr. Norwood is a Senior Partner with Tatum, LLC who does project work in areas of corporate financial policy, strategy, and special situations and has responsibility for the firm's service initiative for SBICs. He has assisted Tatum clients in start-up strategy and financing, company valuations, financial benchmarking, performance measurement and incentive systems, evaluation of new investment opportunities, and diagnosis of troubled situations. Within Tatum, Sam is Chairman of the Partner Advisory Committee, having responsibility for advising the Management Committee on the firm's valuation processes, securities management, and other special programs. He is also a member of a Tatum Advisory Group for Warburg-Pincus, a client of Tatum CFO. He is a member of The Society of International Business Fellows, a Director of Bio-Plus, Inc. (a producer of agricultural granules from peanut shells), founder and former President and Director of The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Atlanta alumni Club, and a member of The Association for Corporate Growth. He has been a biographee in Who's Who in the World since 1992.