F. Marcus Fariss
Managing Director and Partner
Marcus Fariss has almost 25 years of experience in investment banking and senior management roles in the financial services sector. He joined Cary Street Partners in 2005 and is currently a Managing Director in the Greensboro, North Carolina office. Marcus’s expertise includes mergers and acquisitions work, capital raising and strategic and financial advisory services. He specializes in the Financial Institutions & Services, Business Services and Industrial industries.
Prior to joining Cary Street Partners, Marcus was a co-founder and Managing Director of Fariss Feldmann Huff & Co., ("FFHC") a Southeast-based investment bank and a co-founder and Managing Director of Gryphon Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity management company. Previous to founding FFHC in 1995, he was a member of the executive management group of Ruff Hewn Limited Partnership. In addition, he was a founder, President, CEO, and a Director of American Bank and Trust Co. ("AB&T"). Following the sale of AB&T to Southern National Corporation, Marcus became President and CEO of Southern National Savings Corporation, where he was involved in the bank's mergers and acquisitions.
Marcus graduated from Hampden-Sydney College, cum laude, where he was a George F. Baker Scholar. He received his Master of Business Administration from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently, Marcus is the Chairman of the Westchester Country Day School Endowment Board, a Member of the Board of Visitors at High Point University and an active volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America. Formerly, Marcus served as a board member of the North Carolina Bankers Association and Great Harvest Franchising, Inc., based in Dillon, Montana.
Marcus and his wife have four children and reside in High Point, North Carolina.
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