This award was designed to encourage chapter leaders to maintain a high standard of excellence in their work and drive the development of initiatives for their chapter.
This chapter leader demonstrates strong leadership and organizational skills, creativity, and dedication to the growth of the organization.
FINALIST
2022 Chapter Leader of the Year Award Winner
Tyler Gatherum
Wealth Advisor
Bernstein Private Wealth Management
Tyler Gatherum is an advisor at Bernstein Private Wealth Management. He works closely with founders and entrepreneurs as they progress through various milestones of scaling their business and personal net worth, including pre-and-post-transaction planning and resourcing their unique values into a bespoke investment plan across public and private markets.
FINALIST
2022 Chapter Leader of the Year Award Winner
Bill McCalpin
Founder & CEO
Capitalize Network
Bill McCalpin is the founder and CEO of Capitalize Network, a sell-side advisory firm helping business owners plan, prepare, and implement optimal exits from their businesses, and the founder and CEO of DealWare, a web-based project management software platform, which hosts, manages, and streamlines M&A deals.
Mr. McCalpin has spent his 35-year career in M&A, entrepreneurship, and corporate management. He is the Vice Chair of the national advisory council of AM&AA, a founder of the Rocky Mountain chapter of AM&AA, and holds the CMAA M&A certification and the CBEC and CExP certifications in Business Exit Planning.
FINALIST
2022 Chapter Leader of the Year Award Winner
Bill Jarry
Principal, Senior Client Strategist
BNY Mellon Wealth Management
Bill Jarry is a Senior Director at BNY Mellon Wealth Management where he helps individuals and families achieve their financial goals with focused investment and wealth management strategies. He and his team excel at managing wealth in times of transition, such as the consideration of selling a business, divorce, inheritance or multi-generational wealth transfer.
2021 Chapter Leader of the Year Award Winner
Taylor Devine
Founder & Managing Partner
The CDI Group
Taylor Devine brings a national and international perspective, as well as an owner’s perspective to the fields of M&A and investment banking. In 2001, Devine formed Corporate Development International, LLC dba: The CDI Group, a Mid-Atlantic M&A and consulting company for middle-market companies. Taylor has a high level of professionalism, knowledge, enthusiasm, and involvement with promoting the value of AM&AA in the DC/MD/VA Chapter.
2020 Chapter Leader of the Year Award Winner
Lindsey Wendler
Managing Director
Dresner Partners
Lindsey Wendler is a Certified Merger & Acquisition Advisor and Business Certified Appraiser with over ten years of experience in marketing, branding, and international business. As Managing Director at NTA-RIVERBEND, Wendler oversees the firm’s investment banking operations and growth strategy, which focuses on M&A, corporate finance, and restructuring for middle market companies. She proudly leads the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter.