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Craig Battle, the founder of Tucker Capital Corporation, has spent over 30 years in the investment banking business advising corporations on strategic financial issues, capital raising, acquisitions and divestitures.

In 1989, he led Tucker into an alliance with the leading consumer catalog consultant, Jim Alexander, and created Tucker Alexander to provide Strategic Advice and M&A services to the consumer catalog industry.

Since inception, Tucker Alexander has advised some of the industry’s most prominent companies, such as Blair Corporation, Disney, Williams-Sonoma, Playboy Enterprises, dELiA*s, Saks, Brooks Brothers and Coldwater Creek. Craig is a frequent speaker at Direct Marketing Association (DMA) Conferences, has spoken at the New England Mail Order Association (NEMOA) and has been a guest lecturer, on several occasions, at New York University’s Leonard Stern Graduate School of Business.

Prior to founding Tucker Capital, Craig was a Senior Vice President at the investment banking firm of Warburg Paribas Becker/A.G. Becker in NYC and was a group head responsible for financing large industrial projects.

Earlier in his career, he was a Managing Director at Wm. Sword & Company, an investment bank which was created by Morgan Stanley principals. At Sword, Craig was responsible for advising large companies on merger and acquisition matters and managed over $300 MM of financings for several large institutional clients.

He began his career as a Senior Lending Officer at the Fidelity Bank in Philadelphia, lending to middle market companies in the Northeast. He earned his BA at St. Lawrence University and graduated from The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Management Program.