Craig Pace comes to MorrisAnderson as a proven professional with an impressive track record in finance, marketing, and strategy. Pace has been an employee with or consultant to Fortune 500 companies, mid-sized enterprises and startup ventures, developing particular expertise in raising equity capital, developing and implementing strategic plans, and building organizations from concept to impact in their markets.

A co-founding director of Ariel Savannah Angel Partners, an angel investment group based in Savannah, Ga., Pace has raised more than $26 million in funding for startup companies.

Most recently, Craig was a principal with Chicago-based Walker Sands Communications, a full-service marketing communications, public relations, and consulting firm. He was responsible for all financial matters, including controls, planning and budgeting, as well as for multiple client accounts in consumer food products, investment banking, healthcare, private equity, real estate and software.

Prior to joining Walker Sands, Craig served as CFO of a $20 million full-service aviation company, with responsibility for financial controls, reporting systems, planning, and budgeting for the 135-employee company that had had a compounded annual growth rate of 270 percent for the preceding four years. He sought and delivered a funding source for a buyout of the company, obtaining an offer of nine times EBITDA.

Pace was also founder, CEO and CFO of OneTrace, an innovator in the geolocation industry. He raised angel funding for the company, licensed next-generation tracking technology from a national laboratory, secured valuable business partnerships, and ultimately sold the intellectual property.

Prior to OneTrace, Craig was director of business analysis and planning at BeautyJungle.com, an e-commerce company that Fortune magazine rated the fourth-best overall site on the Web and The Wall Street Journal rated the best beauty Web site. He was also a corporate location and economic development consultant at Fluor Daniel Consulting, a division of Fluor Corporation.

Craig holds an MBA from Yale University, a master’s degree in economics from the University of South Carolina and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Winthrop University, Rock Hill, S.C.