Who We Are

Founded in 2013, Britehorn is a leading middle-market investment bank led by an experienced team of dedicated professionals with a variety of backgrounds. The firm’s main offices are in Denver, Colorado and Delray Beach, Florida — and it conducts transactions across the United States and Canada.

Britehorn is comprised of Britehorn Partners, which represents clients in merger & acquisition and capital formation transactions — and Britehorn Securities, a FINRA & SEC registered broker-dealer that serves investment banking professionals around the country who face all the same challenges we do. Collectively, we at Britehorn strive to provide all our clients and representatives best-in-class service and empower them to accomplish their goals.

Bobbi Armstrong

Partner

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Bobbi Armstrong

Bobbi is a founding partner of Britehorn Partners and Britehorn Securities (formerly known as LoHi Merchant Bank). She brings over twenty years of private equity and transactional experience in high-growth companies in both the public and private capital markets. Over the course of her career, she has served as banker, advisor, principal investor, board member, and interim management for companies in a wide range of industries with an emphasis on media, technology, business services, and healthcare. Prior to founding Britehorn Partners, Bobbi served as a principal of lower middle market private equity firm Mercantile Capital Group — where she sourced, structured, and added value to portfolio investments. Before joining Mercantile, Bobbi was a biotech research analyst with Union Bank of Switzerland Lifescience Group. She started her financial career with Trebol, the U.S. investment arm of Argentine private bank Banco General de Negocios.

Brett Story

Partner

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Brett Story

Brett is a founding partner of Britehorn Partners and Britehorn Securities and an experienced investment banker with extensive transaction advisory experience across a variety of industries. Brett currently serves on the Board of Directors for ARB Labs Inc., a technology company serving the casino gaming industry, and is an Advisory Board Member for York RLFC, a professional rugby league club based in York, England. He has practiced corporate law in Denver and Miami, and holds a JD from the University of Miami School of Law, a Professional Certification in Mergers & Acquisitions from the New York Institute of Finance, and a Professional Certification in Behavioral Economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Andrew Hurry

Partner

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Andrew Hurry

Andre Hurry is a Partner of Britehorn Partners with over 30 years of strategic advisory and transactional experience. His strengths include applying a unique combination of a pragmatic, scientific, engineering and finance background to complex situations across telecom, environmental, title insurance, and other industries. His recent projects include his role as Financial Consultant to Colorado Springs Utility and City Utilities, Springfield MO for the development of citywide fiber networks and lease contracts with Ting and Brightspeed. Andrew spent 10 years as Senior Investment Banker at The Yale Group. Prior to The Yale Group, he was a principal at Grayson & Associates, a merchant banking firm focusing on medical-related technology investments. Before Grayson, he was a Senior Project Manager in Europe for global environmental consulting firms, with his role focusing on business development, environmental due diligence, and natural resource development. Andrew holds an MBA from the University of London, England, an M.Sc. from University College London, and a B.Sc. from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He has Series 7, 24, 28 and 63 FINRA licenses.

Steve Gaynor

Partner

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Steve Gaynor

Steve has over forty years’ experience as a banker and advisor to corporate and institutional clients with a focus on technology, telecom, media, and financial services. After graduating simultaneously from Harvard Law and Business Schools (JD/MBA), he went to Wall Street where he was an M&A lawyer with Skadden, Arps, and subsequently an M&A and corporate finance banker with L.F. Rothschild. Steve was recruited by Pacific Telesis (now AT&T) to become a leader of its aggressive global expansion in wireless (AirTouch spinoff), which drove AirTouch’s $62 billion acquisition by Vodafone and Verizon. Following Airtouch, Steve became a Partner at Arthur D. Little, where he advised large funds on technology and telecom investments. That eventually led him to co-found MSG Securities to advise companies on M&A and capital raises, where he served as Managing Partner just prior to joining Britehorn. In addition to his JD/MBA degrees, Steve has a BA, highest distinction, from Baruch College, and a certificate, with distinction, in telecom/Internet engineering from U.C. Berkeley.

Natalia Klishina Story

Director of Compliance & Marketing

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Sarel Doglu

Chief Technology Officer
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Sarel Doglu

Sarel has significant experience in understanding, designing, and deploying full-scale technology solutions across variety of platforms. His unique knowledge and understanding of how to tie technology solutions to the day-to-day of companies’ operational needs has been a key advantage for their overall growth. Sarel has directed various technology groups in executing top-tier system architectures to meet the companies’ goals and objectives. He brings 15 years of maturity and understanding of organizational structure and was involved in several management positions. Prior to Britehorn, he has performed as CTO for SkipBarber Racing School, the digital health records company ArroHealth, and Lifetopia (a provider of housing software solution to the higher educational market). Sarel has also built and managed several internet services companies in the finance, social media, advertising, and e-commerce markets. Sarel’s proven strategy to recruit and build highly-efficient, well-structured, and cost-effective teams always resulted in innovative solutions and superior results. He currently resides in Austin, TX and serves as a mentor at the Capital Factory.

Curli Taylor

Compliance Associate

Our Investment Bankers & Placement Agents

Below are all the individuals that currently partner with Britehorn Securities as their broker-dealer. Located around the country — some running individual offices and others working for large private funds — they all count on us for their compliance needs.