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Tom Pecht

Thomas Pecht
Managing Director

Tom Pecht, a Managing Director with JEGI, has nearly 20 years of investment banking experience, having served the small- and middle-market publishing community since 1989. Since joining JEGI in 2004, Mr. Pecht has successfully completed a number of notable transactions, including:

The acquisition of Resources for Christian Living for CFM Religion Publishing Group (Wicks Group);
The sale of True North Custom Publishing to Sunshine Media (H.I.G. Capital);
The sale of Rainbow Studies International to Standard Publishing (Wicks Group);
The sale of Church Law & Tax Report to Christianity Today International; and
The sale of Credit Union Times to The Wicks Group of Companies.

Prior to joining JEGI, Mr. Pecht was President of Publishers Network, where he initiated, negotiated and completed transactions involving B2B magazines, special interest consumer titles, weekly business journals, newsletters, and book publishing imprints.

Prior to founding Publishers Network, Mr. Pecht served as President and Publisher of the Denver Business Journal. He also served as group publisher for the Scripps-Howard Business Journals (now the American City Business Journals). During the early 1980s, Mr. Pecht served as associate publisher of New Orleans City Business and participated in the launch of Louisiana Life Magazine (the winner of the 1981 Magazine of the Year award). He has also been a partner and served as vice president of Campaigns and Elections Magazine, which was eventually sold to The Congressional Quarterly in 1998.

Mr. Pecht holds a BS from Georgia Southern College (1977) and an MBA from the University of Colorado (1992).

Interested parties may contact Mr. Pecht via e-mail, or at the firm's address.

Thomas Pecht Managing Director

Thomas Pecht
Managing Director