Primary Job Title Partner Primary Organization 
Satori Capital
Location Dallas, Texas, United States Regions Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Southern US Gender Male
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John Grafer is a Partner at Satori Capital. Prior to joining Satori, Mr. Grafer was senior vice president of Giuliani Partners LLC, a consulting and investment firm founded by former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. Mr. Grafer assisted with the initiation of a $300 million principal investment alliance with Bear Stearns Merchant Banking
(now Irving Place Capital) and served as a full-time deal team member performing deal sourcing, valuation, and acquisition activities for portfolio companies. Mr. Grafer was also responsible for all financial aspects of the firm and its affiliates as well as for making recommendations to the Chairman regarding operations, corporate strategy, human resources, legal, and other issues.
Prior to joining Giuliani Partners in 2003, Mr. Grafer was a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he executed exclusive sale transactions in the middle market and provided buy-side mergers and acquisition advice to multinational organizations. From 1991-1999, Mr. Grafer was a member of the Proprietary Trading Group at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., where he hedged $5 billion of daily currency exposure, a founding member and chief financial officer of a startup wide-area networking company, and a senior auditor at Ernst & Young, where he earned his C.P.A.
