Mr. Welch has been active in many aspects of the financial industry for over twenty-five years. Currently he heads up Skellig Capital Advisors, a private investment banking advisory firm. Skellig works with midwestern companies of all industries with enterprise values of $25mm to $1bn, providing sell-side, buyside, recapitalization, and capital raising advisory services.
Prior to Skellig, he headed up the investment banking groups of Noyes Group (a 111-year-old investment bank based out of Chicago and Indianapolis) and City Securities Corporation (an 80+ year-old investment bank based out of Indianapolis). In the 1990s he re-engineered and headed the Indiana Housing Finance Authority (a $1 billion “bank” where he brought more than $750 million complex taxable and tax exempt fixed income financings to the public markets, helped to facilitate the development of billions of dollars of apartment developments, and engineered indenture and general obligation ratings upgrades from the major debt rating agencies). Earlier in his career, he worked in corporate lending/finance with Continental Bank in Chicago (now Bank of America) and in the finance division of Delta Faucet Company (a major subsidiary of Masco Corporation).
Mr. Welch is an Indianapolis native and holds a Master’s of Business Administration from Indiana University and a Bachelor’s of Business Administration (Finance) from the University of Notre Dame, where he was a walk-on football player. He is and has been active with many community organizations, including: serving on the boards of the Indiana Public Employee Retirement Fund the Indiana Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (chair) Cathedral High School the Indianapolis Private Industry Council (chair) the Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership, the Athletic Club Foundation (chair), and the Penrod Arts Fair (past president). He currently serves on four corporate boards.
Mr. Welch resides with his wife and four children in Indianapolis.
Mr. Welch is a Registered Representative of and Securities are offered through Kittle Capital Markets, LLC. Supervised by the Home Office, located at 310 East 96th Street, Suite 400, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240. Phone Number 317-846-3111. Member FINRA SIPC. Skellig Capital Advisors, LLC and Kittle Capital Markets, LLC are separate and unaffiliated entities.