Shawn R. Ely

Mr. Shawn R.
Ely is a Director-Business Development at Edgewater Growth Capital Partners.
Prior to joining Edgewater in March 2012, he was Managing Director at South Franklin Street Partners LLC.
He joined South Franklin Street Partners in April 2007.
Prior to joining SFSP, he was a Director with a NY-based turnaround.
Previously, he had served as the Senior Vice President of Operations and Administration for Big Rock Sports, a $300mm specialty distributor jointly owned by Key Principal Partners and JP Morgan Capital Partners.
Big Rock Sports was a portfolio company of Mr. Ely’s at Key Principal Partners, where he had spent six years making both controlling and non-controlling investments in middle market companies across the U.S.
Prior to his tenure with Key Principal Partners, he served as a Vice President with a Cleveland-based regional investment banking firm where he focused on executing middle market M&A and Capital Raising transactions for clients in a variety of markets.
He had also spent several years in both the workout group at Key Bank and the corporate treasury division of KeyCorp.
Mr. Ely graduated with a BS, cum laude, from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and earned his MBA, with honors, from the University of Chicago.