George SmithPartners is shaking up its leadership team. The firm haspromoted Malcolm Davies to lead the day-to-daystrategy and operations along with Jonathan Leeand Shahin Yazdi. In the new role, Davies willfocus on the big-picture strategy and goals and will focus more onprivate events. The firm's co-founders Gary Tenzer, Gary Mozer andSteve Bram continue to lead the firm's overall direction andpolicy.

"Many of the initiatives the firm has embarked on over the pastdecade have been used by our specific team, the Davies Group, toensure production was at the forefront of the company's revenue,"Davies, principal and managing director at George Smith Partners,tells GlobeSt.com. "Our belief is that the connections we foster onbehalf of our entrepreneurial sponsors is what differentiatesGeorge Smith Partners. By incorporating another partner into themanagement of the firm, alongside Lee and Yazdi, we are leveragingmore of the collective knowledge base in our corporate growthstrategies."

Davies will focus on achieving the firm's growth goals, whichincludes entering and establishing business in new geographicmarkets and growing on the East Coast. "In 2019, we opened a newoffice on the East Coast," says Davies. "That office reports to ourteam from a structural perspective, and we've been starting tostretch our boundaries of not only being the pre-eminent West Coastcapital advisory firm focused on representing the entrepreneurialsponsor, but also to working on projects in Charlotte, Atlanta,Tampa, Dallas, Houston and Chicago as well as other major cities inthe US. By having a coast-to-coast solution, we are betterconnected to the greater capital flows from the East Coast and havebetter boots-on-the-ground coverage to bring our dedicated teamapproach to the whole country."