George McCabe
Partner, Business Development Contact
Mr. McCabe joined Harren in 2015. He is responsible for initiating and maintaining the Firm’s transaction origination relationships with operating executives and their advisors, particularly the investment banking community. Mr. McCabe is currently a member of the A&A Transfer board of directors.
Prior to joining Harren, Mr. McCabe was a General Partner and Co-founder of Pine Creek Partners in Washington, D.C. Pine Creek managed a $50 million proprietary investment fund providing late stage and buyout capital to small and lower middle market businesses, primarily in the southeast region of North America. In 2013, he successfully closed an independent sponsor transaction investing in a manufacturer of building materials and packaging supplies that operates three plants in the southeast.
Before launching Pine Creek in 2005, Mr. McCabe was a General Partner and oversaw several multi-stage private equity funds affiliated with Freidman Billings Ramsey (now B. Riley Securities). In total, he managed approximately $120 million dollars invested in growth equity and buyout transactions on behalf of institutional investors. Mr. McCabe began his corporate finance career in New York as part of the Investment Banking Group at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (now Credit Suisse), providing advisory services to clients in mergers, acquisitions, and issuances of debt and equity securities.
Mr. McCabe’s twenty-year private equity career has involved board service and operational project management on behalf of twenty-two portfolio companies.
Mr. McCabe was a registered securities principal with the NASD having passed the Series 7, 63, 24, and 65 examinations. He is the founder and former President of the University of Virginia T100, an organization of 100 alumni that support intellectual property commercialization initiatives at the University. He served on the Board and as Treasurer of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. He is a member of the Southern 7 YPO Gold chapter of the Young Presidents Organization.
Mr. McCabe holds a B.S. from the University of Virginia.
Mr. McCabe enjoys traveling with his two children, wing shooting, fly fishing, and any outdoor activity involving a mountain.