09/20/2010

Steve Hufford

Steve Hufford is a Managing Director  of Investment Banking for Raymond James & Associates, Inc., a leading middle-market investment bank.  In this capacity, he co-leads the firm’s Financial Technology, Transaction Processing and Financial Outsourcing practice.  In addition to his position at Raymond James, he also serves on the Steering Committee of the “FinTech Society” of the Technology Association of Georgia.

Steve has more than two decades of deal-making experience in sales, corporate development, investment banking and corporate law.  In addition to his service as an investment banker, Steve has served as a partner of a major Southeastern law firm; as a senior corporate development executive for two NASDAQ-listed technology companies; and as the co-founder of two successful venture-funded start-ups in the financial services and technology.   Both of these companies achieved successful exits. 

Steve graduated from James Madison University with dual degrees in Political Science and Russian Language, and received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.  He is married, has three daughters (ages 17, 15 and 5) and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.