The Gridley & Company Difference

  • Industry Focus

    Our specialization in the Information Services industry gives our clients a competitive edge. We develop and nurture relationships with an extensive group of industry leaders, emerging growth companies and private equity firms within this market segment. This broad network and our targeted industry focus allows us to:

    • Discern important trends early in their development
    • Advise clients on the best strategy to profit from those trends
    • Execute highly successful transactions
  • Strategic Insight

    Our strategic insight and judgment is honed through extensive research. This includes:

    • Conduct research to identify market opportunities
    • Host leading industry networking events
    • Attend and participate in industry conferences
    • Meet with over 300 companies a year
    • Develop comprehensive industry overviews
    • Research, write and distribute our quarterly newsletter
    • Consult with senior industry relationships
    • Draw upon our extensive 25 years of transaction experience

    We share our insights through our quarterly newsletter The Compass.

  • Extensive Experience

    Our team members are seasoned bankers who were trained at major Wall Street firms including Lehman Brothers, Citigroup, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, and ING Barings and are passionate about our targeted industry sectors. This means that our clients get bankers with tremendous transaction experience in a focused, intimate relationship. It also means that attention to quality is inherent in everything we do.

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Sharon Munger

Ms. Munger is the retired Chairman and CEO of The M/A/R/C Group.  As a subsidiary of Omnicom, The M/A/R/C Group operates two businesses:  Targetbase, a CRM and database marketing agency and M/A/R/C Research, a strategic marketing research firm.

Ms. Munger has played a prominent role in developing practices that have influenced the marketing services industry and has extensive experience in providing the full complement of marketing research and database services available through The M/A/R/C Group.  She pioneered the company’s database marketing business in the early ’80′s after developing the service on behalf of a M/A/R/C client.  Ms. Munger is also credited with steering the company into innovative business and service strategies by establishing a full line of integrated services that have expanded the company’s industry penetration and revenues.

She received a B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University and serves as a trustee on the Vanderbilt Board of Trust.