CCG Team
Founder & Managing Partner
David Merwin
David has 25 years experience in M&A, operations and corporate leadership. After an early career with NCR and EMC, in 2001 he helped found a silicon valley startup, Cloudshield Technologies, in the network security industry. He founded Muirfield Meadow Ventures in 2003 through a series of 5 acquisitions of for-profit, education institutions. As CEO of the portfolio companies, David and his team achieved growth goals through integration and synergistic optimization, before selling the portfolio in 2018. David is now Founder and Partner of Creekstone Capital Group, a middle market advisory and investment firm. David has an undergraduate degree in Finance and an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. David is currently a professor in the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business where he teaches M&A Finance in the MBA Program.
Partner
John Ezzell
John is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of experience, having held key positions such as Director for Oracle Corporation's Custom Development, Architecture, and Business Intelligence divisions. Known for fostering customer and team member loyalty, he left Oracle in 2004 to establish BIAS Corporation, which rapidly became a leading Oracle technology systems integrator and managed services provider. There, he built consultant teams focused on addressing customer pain points and developed an extensive library of Oracle reference customers. Under John's leadership, BIAS Corporation achieved remarkable success, growing to 400+ employees, and multiple global offices. They achieved an unprecedented 76% Net Promoter Score and earned the title of "Oracle Global Partner of the Year" among 28,000 competitors. In 2022, in a successful exit, he sold BIAS to Deloitte.
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