Jim Childs
Email: jchilds@childsadvisorypartners.com
Jim has spent his career leading and advising high growth organizations. Jim has executed over $2.5 billion in transactions as an advisor and as a principal.
Prior to founding CHILDS Advisory Partners, Jim was CEO of Impact Innovations, a $100 million IT services provider. As CEO, Jim led the company in raising over $30 million in 1998 and led its growth to over 700 employees nationwide prior to its sale in 2004. Along the way, the company was named Atlanta’s 4th fastest growing company and one of the top places to work in Atlanta. Backed by Cravey, Green and Wahlen and Allied Capital, the company became a premier IT services firm in the southeast serving both Federal and commercial clients.
Prior to starting Impact, Jim was a VP-Investment Banking at Robinson-Humphrey, a division of Salomon Smith Barney. At RH Jim led more than 30 M&A transactions and capital raisings for private and public companies. Jim focused on IT services and staffing industries as part of the Business Services practice at RH.
Jim started his career at Arthur Andersen in Atlanta in the Emerging Companies Practice where he worked with middle market companies across a variety of industries. Jim graduated from Harvard Business School in 1995 and from the University of Georgia in 1990. At UGA, Jim was a member of the 1987 NCAA champion tennis team.