Bill J. Kloewer
Bill joined Financial Advisory Partners as a partner in 2010. During his nearly thirty year career, Bill has had a variety of finance and accounting responsibilities, including serving as controller for a publicly traded company. He led the financial analysis,
due diligence, and financial integration efforts in numerous transactions.
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Prior to joining Financial Advisory Partners, Bill served over ten years as a Controller for Iowa Telecom (NYSE:IWA). During his tenure at Iowa Telecom, he was responsible for accounting, financial reporting, tax planning and compliance, treasury operations, credit facility compliance, forecasting and support for acquisitions and dispositions. Bill also played an integral role in the initial public offering of Iowa Telecom’s equity, and led the financial integration for acquisitions with a total value in excess of $1 billion.
From 1984 to 2000 Bill held various positions with MidAmerican Energy Company and its predecessors, including Director of Financial Planning, Senior Business Analyst and other accounting and finance roles. During his tenure with MidAmerican Energy, his responsibilities included the development of the company’s financial forecast, financial analyses regarding potential business opportunities, and negotiation, due diligence and business integration support for business acquisitions.
Bill received a B.A. in accounting from Buena Vista University and an M.B.A. from Drake University.
Bill holds his FINRA Series 62 (Corporate Securities Represenative), 63 (Uniform Securities Agent State Law), and 79 (Investment Banking Representative) securities licenses.
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Craig A. Knock
Craig joined Financial Advisory Partners as a partner in 2010.
His career spans over twenty-five years, most of which he served as a chief financial officer, including for two publicly traded companies. During his career, Craig has been instrumental in closing several acquisitions and divestitures of approximately three billion dollars in total value. He has raised more
than two billion of capital through private
and public debt and equity issuances.
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Prior to joining Financial Advisory Partners, Craig spent more than ten years as the Chief Financial Officer of Iowa Telecom (NYSE:IWA). Key highlights include the initial $1.0 billion acquisition of the business in 2000, a successful $417 million initial public offering coupled with a $577 million debt refinancing in 2004, several acquisitions along the way, all culminating in the sale of the company to Windstream Corporation (NASDAQ:WIN) in 2010. Prior to Iowa Telecom, he served as the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Racom Corporation, a private wireless company.
From 1993 until 1998, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATNI), after joining in 1992 as the Controller. Prior to joining Atlantic Tele-Network, Craig was an audit manager with Deloitte & Touche, serving key client accounts in the agricultural, manufacturing and telecommunications industries.
Craig has broad agricultural experience and continues to maintain active Midwest-based agricultural interests.
Craig is a certified public accountant and obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting from the University of Iowa.
Craig received a B.A. in accounting from Buena Vista University and an M.B.A. from Drake University.
Bill holds his FINRA Series 62 (Corporate Securities Represenative), 63 (Uniform Securities Agent State Law), and 79 (Investment Banking Representative) securities licenses.
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Kendrik E. packer
Ken is a Partner with Financial Advisory Partners, which he founded in 1997. He has spent a nearly thirty year career in the investment banking industry and has held various positions with major national and regional investment banking firms covering a broad range of industries and transactional experience.
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Since founding Financial Advisory Partners, Ken has completed transactions representing more than two billion dollars in value. These transactions have been spread over several industries encompassing a multitude of financial disciplines, including acquisitions, divestitures, private equity, private debt and commercial bank financing.
Prior to founding Financial Advisory Partners, Ken spent nearly seven years with Kemper Securities, Inc., later Everen Securities, Inc., as Senior Vice President Corporate Finance. During his tenure at Kemper, he was directly responsible for leading transactions involving public debt, public equity, private equity, mergers and acquisitions and strategic planning.
From 1984 to 1990 Ken was Vice President Corporate Finance with R. G. Dickinson & Company. Working at R. G. Dickinson & Company, Ken managed public equity and debt offerings, the placement of private equity
and led a number of merger and acquisition and consulting engagements.
Ken currently serves on the Board of Directors of HNc Services and served as a director of Iowa Telecom (NYSE:IWA) from 2005–2010 and Cline Tool Inc. from 2010-2021. In addition, Ken has broad agricultural experience and continues to maintain active Midwest-based agricultural interests.
Ken received a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Iowa.
Ken received a B.A. in accounting from Buena Vista University and an M.B.A. from Drake University.
Bill holds his FINRA Series 62 (Corporate Securities Represenative), 63 (Uniform Securities Agent State Law), and 79 (Investment Banking Representative) securities licenses.
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