L. Price Blackford

Price Blackford is Managing Director and Group Head of Transportation & Logistics at SMG.

Mr. Blackford has over 40 years of investment banking experience, of which 25 years has been focused in the transportation and logistics industry sectors.

Prior to joining SMG and since 2013, Mr. Blackford was Managing Director and Head of the Transportation & Logistics Group at Scott-Macon. From 2004, Mr. Blackford was a Founding Partner, Managing Director and Senior Advisor with Sagent Advisors and focused on the transportation and logistics sectors. Previously, he was a Managing Director of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation and its successor Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation for 15 years. Mr. Blackford began his career at Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. as a Corporate Finance Generalist.

Mr. Blackford has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, domestic and international financings, recapitalizations, valuations, and financial advisory services.

Mr. Blackford is a graduate of Washington and Lee University with a BA in Economics and received his MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia. He currently serves on the Business Advisory Committee of the Transportation Center at Northwestern University.