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Howard Butcher, IV
Since 1957, Mr. Butcher was associated in various capacities with Butcher & Company, Inc., and its predecessor firms, Butcher & Sherrerd, of which he was a General Partner, and Butcher & Singer, Inc. Butcher & Singer, Inc. was the leading Philadelphia based investment banking and brokerage firm in the Mid-Atlantic states, prior to its merger, in 1988, into WFS Financial, which became the parent of Wheat, First, Butcher, Singer. In February 1998, First Union Bank (now Wachovia) acquired Wheat First Butcher Singer for over $450 million.
During the 1960’s he served as assistant to his Father, Howard Butcher, III, chairman and CEO of one of the earliest large conglomerates, IU International, Inc., which had gross revenues of more than $ 4 billion by the early 1970’s. IU owned Ryder PIE Trucking, the largest trucking company in the U.S., Echo Bay Gold Mines, Gotaas Larsen Shipping, a large fleet of bulk cargo carriers, super tankers, LNG Carriers and two cruise ships, General Waterworks, the second largest collection of privately owned water companies in the U.S., C. Brewer, the Hawaiian sugar producer and land holder, International Mill Services, Southwestern Fabricating, Farmbest Foods, Unijax Paper Company and many other companies. In addition to having founded the predecessor companies to IU, Butcher III was senior partner of Butcher & Singer, its largest producer and director of over twenty six private and public companies at one time.
Mr. Butcher assisted his father during more than two hundred acquisitions, mergers and private deals. He became the second largest producer in the firm, started an investment advisory department which was profitable from day one and opened the Atlanta, New York, Boston and Chicago markets for the firm’s very large practice in oil & gas, real estate partnerships and other private equity investments of the firm’s own manufacture. Mr. Butcher last served the company as Executive Vice President & Director of Butcher Resources, Inc., which was the Energy & Natural Resource investment-banking subsidiary of Butcher & Company, Inc.
Mr. Butcher was President and CEO of Butcher International, Inc., a privately owned company that he founded in 1978, until he liquidated it in 2003. The company offered investment banking & corporate advisory services to young and established companies across a wide range of industry. Mr. Butcher has spent more than fifty years as an advisor or principal, in corporate finance, venture capital and investment & corporate management, across the full range of industry. He was especially active in the energy, natural resource and power generation industries in the 1980's. The company provided advisory services to foreign & domestic investors seeking real estate, natural resource, energy & energy-related and other corporate opportunities in the U.S. The company also engaged in import and export transactions between the United States, Central & South America, Europe, Nigeria and elsewhere, primarily in the late 1970's and early '80's.
Currently Mr. Butcher serves as Secretary and a director of Butcher Energy, Inc., (Butcher family owned energy investment firm focused on oil & gas exploration & development, wind farms in Texas and other alternate energy projects) and as Vice President & a director of the Philadelphia Bourse, Inc. (family owned holding company which owns operating companies) He is a past chairman & director of DRX, Inc., (precious metals exploration and development) and formerly a director of Coopersburg Handle & Tool Company, Distribix, Inc. (eighth largest U.S. paper distribution company), Harrison Industries, PLC (small British conglomerate), Alexandra Mining, Ltd. (precious metals mining holding company), Holmes Protection of Philadelphia (commercial & residential security), Frances Denny, Inc. (cosmetics & fragrances), Chadds Ford Capital LLC (asset management firm) and International Light & Power, Limited.
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