Harvard Business School

Colorado School of Mines

Peak 8 Capital, LLC

Founder

LM Acquisition Opportunities, Inc. is a blank check company organized under the laws of Delaware formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. Company merged with SeaStar Medical (ticker-ICU) 10/2022

LMF Acquisition Opportunities, Inc. (Nasdaq: LMAOU)

Board Member-LMF Acquisition Opportunities, Inc. (Nasdaq: LMAOU)

Mr. Burson worked for H.I.G. Capital, LLC (“H.I.G."), a leading global alternative investment firm with approximately $64 billion of equity capital under management and a focus on the small cap and mid cap segments of the market. From June 2003 until March 2020, Mr. Burson served as a Managinq Director in H.I.G's Growth Equity and VC funds. During his 20 year career at H.I.G., Mr. Burson focused on making investments in the business services, consumer, healthcare, and technology sectors. Mr. Burson was involved with over 20 investments while at H.I.G., sat on many of the boards of companies in which investments were made, and was a member of the audit and compensation committees for
a number of his investments. 

H.I.G. Capital is a leading global alternative investment firm with $64 billion of equity capital under management,* with a focus on the small cap and mid cap segments of the market. The H.I.G. family of funds includes private equity, growth equity, real estate, debt/credit, lending and biohealth. We align ourselves with committed management teams and entrepreneurs and help build businesses of significant value. Our team of over 500 investment professionals has substantial operating, consulting, technology and financial management experience, enabling us to contribute meaningfully to our portfolio companies. We invest in companies throughout the U.S., Europe and Latin America and have offices in Miami, New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Atlanta in the U.S., and affiliate offices in London, Hamburg, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan and Paris in Europe as well as Bogotá, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in Latin America.

H.I.G. Capital

Managing Director

Mr. Burson worked for H.I.G. Capital, LLC (“H.I.G."), a leading global alternative investment firm with approximately $64 billion of equity capital under management and a focus on the small cap and mid cap segments of the market. From June 2003 until March 2020, Mr. Burson served as a Managinq Director in H.I.G's Growth Equity and VC funds. During his 20 year career at H.I.G., Mr. Burson focused on making investments in the business services, consumer, healthcare, and technology sectors. Mr. Burson was involved with over 20 investments while at H.I.G., sat on many of the boards of companies in which investments were made, and was a member of the audit and compensation committees for a number of his investments.

Investment Professional

Involved in all aspects of corporate finance: equity & debt underwriting, private placements and mergers & acquisitions.  Identified, engaged and raised capital for emerging high growth technology companies.  Identified, engaged and evaluated merger and acquisition candidates for multiple clients.  Key Raymond James contact on several public offerings.

Raymond James & Associates

Investment Banking

Worked as a summer intern between the first and second years of my MBA program.

The Boston Consulting Group

Summer Intern

Identified and evaluated numerous acquisition targets for Dow's Specialty Chemical's business

Dow Chemical

Manager New Business Development (Mergers and Acquisitions)

Researched, developed, introduced, marketed, negotiated and licensed technologies and chemicals for the global oil & gas, semiconductor and water purification industries. Extensive travel and customer interaction throughout Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Global Marketing Manager, Global Project Manager, Marketing Manager, Market Dev. Mgr.

Managed sales and technical support staff with responsibility for $380 million in sales of specialty chemicals, products and services to the major US semiconductor, electronics, oil & gas and mining industries.

Sales Manager, Account Manager, Sales Engineer.

Developed, tested and commercialized new specialty chemicals for use in water purification, oil & gas, and mining industries.

Technical Service and Development:    Development Engineer-Specialty Chemicals

Manufacturer and distributor of advanced RO membrane systems for water purification.

Aqua Molecular Inc.

CEO/Founder

Supervised oil field work-over crews and performed all engineering responsibilities during oil & gas well completion and work-over.  Developed new modeling program for well fracturing and stimulation jobs.

Schlumberger

Service Supervisor, Development Engineer, Field Engineer

Engineer Trainee for Mobil's Parachute Colorado Oil Shale Project.

ExxonMobil

Engineer Trainee

Summer roustabout involved in all aspects of oil field drilling, work-over and maintenance.

Craig Burson