Joseph F. Kenny

Managing Director
121 West Trade Street, Suite 3000
Charlotte, NC  28202
Phone:  704.372.1399 ext. 103
Fax:  704.372.2528

Mr. Kenny joined the Charlotte office of Brookwood Associates in 2007. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Kenny spent 14 years in Charlotte at Wachovia Securities and its predecessors, First Union Securities and Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co, where he focused exclusively on mergers and acquisitions for middle market companies. Mr. Kenny began his career in investment banking in 1987 at Lehman Brothers in New York where he worked in a variety of functional areas including equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and the investment banking division’s management group.

Mr. Kenny has more than 20 years of investment banking experience and has advised senior management teams, boards of directors, private equity groups and business owners regarding a variety of exclusive sale, divestiture, acquisition, recapitalization and financing transactions. His industry experience includes aerospace/defense, apparel, automotive, chemicals, consumer products, direct marketing, distribution, packaging, specialty retail, sporting goods, technology and services, and transportation.

Mr. Kenny earned a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina where he was a Morehead Scholar and currently serves on the Morehead-Cain Foundation Regional Selection Committee. He received his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and subsequently founded and currently serves on the executive committee of the Wharton Club of the Carolinas.

A native Charlottean, Mr. Kenny is married with three children and enjoys his involvement in church and school-related activities. He serves on the board of directors of Legal Services of the Southern Piedmont.