BUSINESS GROWTH ADVISORS - Key Persons

S. Lee Crawley

Job Titles:
  • Principal
  • Business Executive
  • Mr. Crawley in 2004 As a Project Accounting Manager
Lee is a former Director of Xeta Technologies, a public company prior to its sale and was Chairman of their Audit/Finance Committee. Lee joined Corporate Finance Associates in 2003 and was a senior shareholder. He served as Vice Chairman of CFA's Board for six years and was a member of the Energy Practice Group as well as principal of Corporate Finance Securities, Inc. Lee Crawley is a seasoned Business Executive that has been specializing in Transactions since 1999. He has extensive experience in the Energy Industry and has grown companies through turnaround and acquisitions strategies. His thirty years of professional achievements cover a wide range of business relative to transactions. His experience varies from making acquisitions; selling companies; financings; working with venture capitalists, investment bankers and commercial bankers; assisting companies improve their profitability and assessing valuations. He has served as a CEO for private and public companies, using his skills in strategic and operations management, with an emphasis on finding trouble spots or opportunities and then developing remedies to correct them or strategies to exploit them. Lee Crawley officially started his own company as a Business Consultant/Investment Banker with the formation of Corporate Finance Associates (CFA-Tulsa) in 2000. In 2016, Lee decided to start BGA in an attempt to place more focus on helping business owners develop a method to create sustainable, profitable growth prior to a transaction to finance, sell all or part of their business. The formalized Growth Model creates a comprehensive approach for creating consistent, profitable growth. Mr. Crawley has helped numerous companies prepare for business transactions such as a sale, recapitalization, or financing. Many of these methods were developed as a turnaround specialist. In doing this work he came to realize how few companies are really ready to enter the marketplace or to maximize their valuation. A third piece of Mr. Crawley's practice includes Valuations which works well with BGA's Growth Model and Transactions.