Timothy W. Clark
Managing Director
Mr. Clark has broad experience in finance and business strategy with middle-market companies and leverage buyout transactions across a wide range of industries. Prior to joining Gridiron Capital in 2006, Mr. Clark was Managing Director and co-head of the consumer group for Stifel Nicolaus, a Midwest regional investment bank. Previously, Mr. Clark was an in-house strategic consultant for Rawlings Sporting Goods Company and K2. Prior to Rawlings, Mr. Clark worked in a broad range of investment banking capacities for Morgan Stanley, Bankers Trust and Warburg Dillon Read in London and New York in leveraged finance, financial sponsor coverage, high yield and merchant banking. In this experience, Mr. Clark executed advisory and financing transactions totaling over $15 billion. Mr. Clark also worked for Boatmen’s Bank in St. Louis, where he was in derivative products, national corporate banking and middle-market commercial lending. Prior to banking, Mr. Clark played baseball in the Cincinnati Reds organization. Mr. Clark graduated from the University of Missouri with a B.A. in economics and a minor in art history and played varsity football and baseball. He received his M.A. in international affairs from Washington University in St. Louis.