Senior Managing Director - New York Office
Ms. Byorum is currently the Senior Managing Director of
Stephens Cori Capital Advisors. 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 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.
Under her supervision were the following groups: global media and
telecommunications, global retail, the Northeast United States and
Scandinavia.
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 was previously on the investment committee of a US$50
million “warehouse” investment facility provided by CDP
International for investments in Latin America, and is presently on
the Investment Committee for the TCW/Latin American Partners, LP.
She represented TCW on the Board of Emprendamiento Compartido S.A.,
one of Argentina’s most successful pension funds and financial
groups.
Ms. Byorum was a trustee and chairman of the finance committee
of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, for 14 years,
a Trustee of Amherst College for 12 years and is now a Life Trustee
of the College. She also serves on the Board of the International
Center for Research on Women, the world’s largest research
institution addressing the problems of women in emerging economies,
and she is a director of Aeterna Laboratories, a NASDAQ-listed
biotech company, and Northwest Natural Gas, a leading gas
distributor in the Pacific Northwest.
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: Cori
Capital
Phone: (212) 891-1757
Email: sbyorum@stephens.com