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Michael Byrnes began his strategic advisory career in 1980 as a consultant with the New York and Washington, D.C. firm, World Affairs, Inc.  There, under the tutelage of Martin R. Haley and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, he worked on multiple ‘big picture’ projects, ranging from defense conversion strategies with the National Economic Commission to technology transfer processes with multiple stakeholders, including the NSA, U.S. Congress, and individual technology transfer offices.  He also worked with Fortune 500 clients to design and manage various corporate intelligence and crisis management projects.

While deployed in Europe in the mid-1980s to assist in the design of economic development strategies for German Reunification, he resided in the Vatican City.  There, he studied dialectics and ethics, and later was ordained. 

Throughout the 1990’s, he worked with the George S. May International company and other management consultancies, providing rapid assessments and counsel to a wide variety of SME companies throughout the U.S. and Canada.  Provided diverse range of expertise: management organization and training; business financial and operating planning; employee productivity strategies; turnaround and investment banking strategies.  Assisted in various M&A and public offering transactions.

In 1997, he undertook a U.S. government assignment in Bosnia-Herzegovina to assess the country’s electronic banking capacity.  He remained in the Southeast European region for the next nine years to study the long-term economic consequences of nation-building, working with the World Bank, United Nations, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and various local agencies and corporations.

In 2005, he joined Geneva based Orah Investments, brokering SME investments throughout the Southeast European region.  In 2006, he joined New York based Nova Capital Partners, LLC as investment banking principal, focusing on mid-cap transactions.  In April 2008, he completed writing a book on economic philosophy, Hands & Brains Unbound: Revealing the Illusion of World Order & the Revolution Ascending.  The book is now being edited for publishing in London.

In October 2008, he joined Sunbelt, an international business brokerage network.  He plans on using his extensive international background to aid Sunbelt in attracting foreign capital into their markets.

A graduate of Western Michigan University, Clint’s professional career has spanned over 20 years. 12 years in the broadcast industry managing radio stations across the country and along the way discovered his entrepreneurial spirit within. As a result Clint owned and operated several small businesses owner across a broad spectrum of industries, such as an information technology consulting company during the .com period, to a construction company, to most recently in the financial lending industry.

A father late in life, Clint could not be happier and lives in Lowell, Michigan with his wife Karen and their two children Blake Austin, 4 and Aliina Sophia, 18 months.

Clint’s philosophy is simply ... Do the right things, for the right reasons, for the right results ….

20 years of strategic sales, marketing, planning and commercial credit experience working in New York City, San Francisco and Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Over 17 years of service within the financial industry creating and implementing marketing strategies for institutions such as Citigroup and Wells Fargo Bank.

Possess formal credit training, experience in middle-market and small business credit underwriting, work-out experience, substantial portfolio management and creating new divisions within several national banks.

Opened new sales offices and implemented multiple national sales plans used throughout the country for different industries.