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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Don Peppers

Recognized as one of the leading authorities on customer-focused relationship management strategies, Mr. Peppers is an acclaimed author and a founding partner of Peppers & Rogers Group, the world’s premier customer-centered consultancy. With co-author Martha Rogers, Ph.D., Don has produced a legacy of international best-sellers that have collectively sold well over a million copies in 18 languages.

Peppers’ and Rogers’ latest thinking is embodied in their newest book, Rules to Break & Laws to Follow, published in 2008, and named as the inaugural title to Microsoft’s “Executive Leadership Series.” The authors have also published the first ever CRM textbook for university use in graduate level courses, Managing Customer Relationships (April 2004). Don’s vision, perspective and thoughtful analysis of global business practices has earned him some significant citations by internationally recognized entities. The Times of London has listed him among their “Top 50 Business Brains.” The United Kingdom’s premier marketing organization, the Chartered Institute for Marketing, cited Don among their listing of the 50 “most influential thinkers in marketing and business today.” The World Technology Network has cited Don as an “innovator most likely to create visionary ‘ripple effects’.”

Previously, Don was a new business rainmaker for world-class advertising agencies, including Chiat/Day and Lintas:USA. He capped his advertising career as the CEO of Perkins/Butler Direct Marketing. Prior to Madison Avenue, he worked as an economist in the oil business, and as the director of accounting for a regional airline.

Don holds a Bachelor’s Degree in astronautical engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy, and a Master’s Degree in public affairs from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.