Jim McBurney CEO
jmcburney@hcfintl.com Download vCardJim joined as the CEO of HCF with over twenty years of experience in financial advisory and private equity.
Prior to joining HCF, he had been CEO of JNR (UK) Limited, a Rothschild family-owned merchant bank with a primary focus on natural resources and the Former Soviet Union. Previously, he headed European Natural Resources investment banking at Bank of America in London, was a managing director with Merrill Lynch’s Energy & Power Group in New York, and was an executive director in M&A and Energy & Power with Goldman Sachs in New York and London. During the course of his banking career, he has completed in excess of US$25 billion of M&A transactions and US$28 billion of financings.
Prior to his banking career he served for five years in the U.S. Marine Corps as both an infantry officer and as a reconnaissance officer.
Jim received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA, cum laude, from Yale College. Jim has dual US/British citizenship.
He currently serves as non-executive director of Sears Canada Inc.