About SMP Capital Partners
SMP Capital Partners offers investment banking services, specifically sell-side advisory services to privately held businesses and business owners. We deliver efficient, trustworthy, and experienced Merger and Acquisition services to businesses with up to $150 million in enterprise value. With nearly 40 years of deep-learned, real world deal experience, we understand how transactions work before they start through after they close.
The investment banking professionals at SMP Capital Partners successfully bridge the gap between main street SBA business brokerage companies with limited access to M&A and non-government underwritten capital markets, and the institutional investment banking firms who acquire businesses in the upper middle market.
Our Team
Greg Allan Ponder
Partner
Greg Ponder is a Partner at SMP Capital Partners. Greg manages deal negotiations and long term business development. Greg began his M&A career in 1997 and has built one of the most credible and impressive investment banking resumes throughout the industry. Greg has represented business owners of nearly every size and scope and from almost every industry. In September 2005, Greg founded the precursor firm to SMP Capital in the Asheville, North Carolina area which was quickly recognized as one of the premier firms in Western North Carolina and the Upstate South Carolina region. After two years in those markets Greg moved operations to Charlotte and has been in town ever since.
Frank Thomas Muraca
Partner
Frank is a Partner at SMP Capital. Frank manages the firm’s financial and regulatory operations and works closely w/business owners to assist w/daily financial operational management, financial health, reporting, cash flow management, cost containment, debt management, and targeted growth initiatives. In addition, Frank manages oversight of all business valuations and has spent nearly 40 years providing financial advisory services to lenders, equity holders, and potential business acquirers. Frank specializes in financial reporting, business valuation, and audit/Quality of Earnings review management.
Joshua Martin Stamey
Partner
Josh Stamey is a Partner at SMP Capital Partners. Josh develops content for SMP and manages deal flow on a continuum. He develops customized exit strategies & recaps for middle & lower middle market companies and has extensive experience w/full and partial divestitures, financial analysis and business valuations, financial and legal diligence, business development, business operations, transactional negotiation, buyer management and lower middle market financing.
Matt Moreau
Director of Operations
Matt Moreau will serve as SMP’s Director of Operations and will manage business valuation services along with deal volume oversight. Matt possesses a wealth of practical, real-world experience working in Big 4 public accounting as an advisor to highly complex organizations across an array of industries. Matt’s comprehensive experience navigating complex banking risk and regulatory environments adds a uniquely qualified finance expert to the SMP Capital org chart.
Christopher Scott Toney
M&A Advisor
Christopher Toney is an Associate Advisor at SMP Capital Partners, where he focuses on business development and supporting sell-side engagements. He brings an entrepreneurial background with experience building and operating ventures across logistics, technology, e-commerce, high-ticket sales, insurance, and digital assets. In 2019, he was recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 finalist for his work as the founder of Whiteglove4less in the final mile delivery and logistics space. Christopher holds a degree in Finance from Florida Gulf Coast University and an MBA from Pfeiffer University with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence.