AJ Lawler Partners

Principal

Drew has been doing M&A transactions since 1988, typically representing entrepreneurs in the sale of their companies to larger strategic or financial buyers.  As an entrepreneur himself, he has launched 12 businesses in the agriculture, logistics and consumer enthusiast industries. This provides him with a unique insight into seeing that his clients receive full value when selling their company.  In 2018 Drew served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for NOAA, a $6 billion government agency. Concurrent to that Drew held three additional presidential appointments as a Federal Commissioner. In 2020 he was nominated by the President to be Assistant Secretary of State.  He serves on the Board of Trustees for Northrise University in Zambia.

Principal

Prior to joining AJ Lawler Partners, Geoff Moore was a General Partner at TGV Partners which he joined in 2001. Previously, Mr. Moore served as a Managing Director and General Partner at Shamrock Holdings and related private equity partnerships, where he helped source and manage over $400 million of private equity investments. Prior to this, he was a Senior Vice President at PaineWebber Investment Banking in New York and Los Angeles and participated in corporate finance and merger and acquisition transactions with over $2 billion of transaction value. Mr. Moore has provided strategic management to various portfolio companies including as the President at Small Planet Foods, the Executive Committees of Shamrock Broadcasting and Olympic Realty, and as the Chief Executive Officer at FreeRealtime.com. He has served as a Board Director of Thompson/Center Arms, QuickStart, VMI, FreeRealtime.com, The Grand Union Company, Fantastic Foods, Cascadian Farms, Olympic Realty, and Shamrock Broadcasting. Mr. Moore holds an M.B.A. and a B.A. from the University of Virginia. His interests include golf, boating and like most offshore yachtsmen, meteorology.