Kyle C. Schickner

Managing Director

Mr. Schickner's investment banking practice is focused on providing merger & acquisition advisory services as well as private equity and debt capital raising services to middle market and emerging growth companies. With nearly 20 years of investment banking and private equity experience, he has completed numerous transactions across a variety of industries on behalf of founder/family-owned businesses, sponsor-backed businesses, and public companies. Since joining Croft & Bender in 2008, Mr. Schickner's primary banking focus is on the business services, industrial and consumer industries. As Partner of C&B Capital, the private equity affiliate of Croft & Bender, Mr. Schickner also has experience on the principal investing side of the business.

Prior to joining Croft & Bender, Mr. Schickner worked in RBC Capital Markets' Consumer Investment Banking Group, where he provided strategic advisory services for corporate and financial sponsor clients in the restaurant, food service, retail, and heathy & active lifestyle industries.

Mr. Schickner received a B.B.A. in Finance, magna cum laude, from the University of Georgia Honors Program.

Croft & Bender has been a highly valued and trusted advisor throughout the transaction process. Their expertise and diligent efforts effectively prepared and positioned the Company at each stage and were critical in achieving a highly successful outcome for our shareholders, employees, and customers. Their experience and relationships enabled ARP to consummate an attractive transaction in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

- Jeff Vaughn, CEO, ARP