Executive Vice President; Co-Head International
Group- New York Office
Ms. Byorum is currently an Executive Vice
President of Stephens, and Co-Head of the International Group.
Previously, she was CEO of Cori Capital Partners, and until early
2003, was Executive Managing Director of Violy, Byorum &
Partners (“VB&P”), a strategic advisory and investment banking
firm focusing on Latin America - a firm she co-founded in 1996.
At Cori, Ms. Byorum led the team that advised
Trust Company of the West (“TCW”) on managing the US$236 million
TCW/Latin America Private Equity, L.P. Fund, one of the largest
funds in the region. Cori also provided advice on mergers,
acquisitions and other transactions to entrepreneurs, US
multinationals and Latin American family-controlled groups.
Prior to forming VB&P, she spent the
entirety of her career at Citicorp. Among her responsibilities were
Chief of Staff and Chief Financial Officer for the Latin America
Banking Group, Head of the US Corporate Banking Business, and in
1995 she served as a member of the bank’s operating committee and a
Customer Group Executive.
As Chief of Staff and CFO for Citicorp’s Latin
America Banking Group, she oversaw the bank’s US$15 billion Latin
America loan portfolio coordinating diverse activities in 22
countries. She was instrumental in designing and implementing the
US$3.7 billion loan loss reserve in 1987, which enabled Citicorp to
create a then revolutionary debt for equity swap and asset
redeployment program. In her last assignment at the bank, she was
one of six individuals responsible for the entirety of the bank’s
corporate relationships. Among the more notable domestic mergers on
which Ms. Byorum advised was the sale of Calvin Klein, Inc. to
Phillips-Van Heusen in early 2003. Additionally, Ms. Byorum and her
team have provided M&A advice for individuals and companies
including entrepreneurs Mr. Klein and Craig Robins; US
multinationals such as Dow, Unilever, AIG; Latin American
family-controlled groups such as Grupo IMSA, Benavides, Ragasa,
Sociedad Comericial del Plata, Industrias AlEn, Grupo Bavaria, and
Cemex.
Ms. Byorum graduated from Southern Methodist University and the
Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In August 2000,
she was named by Global Finance magazine as among the 15
most powerful women in global finance.
Expertise: International
Phone: (212)
891-1757
Email: sbyorum@stephens.com