Mr. Harper is a vice president at Harris Williams.  He previously worked as a private equity associate at Linsalata Capital Partners and as an investment banking analyst at Western Reserve Partners. He has experience executing both buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions.

Mr. Harper attended the University of Pittsburgh where he was a four-year letterman on the varsity football team and earned both his B.S.B.A. and his M.B.A. concentrated in Finance.  Mr. Harper also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.  He lives in Cleveland with his wife and son.