BlackArch Partners has promoted P.J. Martin and Ches Riley to managing director.
Martin joined BlackArch in 2014 and has more than 14 years of experience executing middle-market investment banking transactions, with a particular focus on the industrials sector. He helps lead BlackArch’s Diversified Industrials group, and has diverse industry experience across other sectors, including: Aerospace, Defense & Government Services; Business & Professional Services; Distribution & Supply Chain Management; Energy; and Industrial Growth & Diversified Manufacturing.
Before joining BlackArch, Martin spent three years in New York City in Barclays’ M&A group, where he focused on middle-market sellside transactions, and four years as an analyst and associate with Edgeview Partners, a middle-market investment bank based in Charlotte, NC.
Riley is a founding shareholder of Blackarch Partners and has more than 20 years of experience in middle-market mergers and acquisitions transactions. Riley is co-head of BlackArch’s Consumer & Retail practice group, including significant transaction experience in Food, Beverage & Agribusiness, and a wide cross-section of additional industries, including Distribution & Supply Chain Management; Industrial Growth & Diversified Manufacturing; Applied Technology & Digital Media and Real Estate.
Prior to helping found BlackArch, Riley was a founding shareholder of Edgeview Partners and was with First Union Securities Mergers and Acquisitions Group, formerly Bowles Hollowell Conner.
