About
Tom Carter, CFA is the principal of Fountain Partners and the managing partner
of Fountain Financial Partners, LLC.
Prior to starting Fountain Financial Partners, Tom's positions were:
Chief Financial
Officer of StarMine
StarMine
provides alpha-generating analytics and equity research
management tools to institutional investment firms worldwide.
StarMine's research focus is on the quantitative analysis of analyst
forecast
accuracy, changes in recommendations, and corporate earnings quality
and operating
performance. StarMine is backed by HummerWinblad Venture Partners,
American Century, and
Instinet. StarMine was #84 on the Inc. 500 list in 2004 and #137 in
2005.
Founder of Fountain Partners
Fountain Partners was formed to provide capital and advisory services to businesses. Fountain made equity and debt investments and an advisory assignment with StarMine in 2001, ultimately led to over 4 years of full time service, initially as Vice President of Finance and Operations.
Equity Research Analyst, E-commerce at Piper Jaffray
Piper Jaffray
includes capital markets and private client services divisions. At
Piper Jaffray, Tom focused on equity research and investment banking
activity
for de novo financial services companies leveraging
the internet such as LendingTree, Espeed, E*Trade, Ameritrade, Paypal,
Mortgage.com,
E-Loan, and Nextcard and technology companies helping to enable
financial
services firms such as Checkfree, Yodlee, S1, Digital Insight, Online
Resources,
and Ellie Mae.
Vice
President at Boston Financial & Equity Corporation
Boston Financial & Equity was established in 1968 by venture leasing and
high risk lending pioneer
Sonny Monosson. Tom spent the mid and late nineties helping to build BF&EC's portfolio including
leading investment in MetroOne, Earthlink and U.S. Genomics.
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