Tate is a fully bilingual [English & Spanish] licensed Managing Director at Madison Street Capital. He is responsible for identifying emerging growth companies in need of capital solutions. He specializes in solutions for small, middle-market, and large companies that primarily seek to gain access to new capital both equity and debt, sell their existing business or acquire another business for strategic reasons. In addition, Tate is adept at political, economic, social, technological, cultural, and language requirements for doing business globally.

Tate completed his Master of Business Administration at Universität Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. During his studies for the MBA, he completed the summer certificate program at IHEID (The Graduate Institute) in Geneva, Switzerland on the WTO and legal and economic ramifications of global trade. Tate completed a Master of Science in Finance from Florida International University with honors. Tate earned his undergraduate degrees from UNC Chapel Hill in International Studies and Philology (Spanish). He was also a graduate of the Carolina Business Institute of the Kenan Flagler Business School and became fluent in Spanish after completing the Advanced Program in Language and Culture in Sevilla, Spain with UNC. He was a member of Sigma Delta Pi – the National Spanish Honors Society. Within the multidisciplinary Global Studies program, his focus was on Political Economy and Spain & the Spanish Speaking World. Tate has also completed significant coursework in International Economics from Florida Atlantic University.

Within his finance career, he not only has legal and regulatory expertise but also has a great deal of success in an advisory capacity (Mergers and Acquisitions and Consultations directly to Board Members about recommended large scale strategic decisions). His experience with fundamental and variance analysis gives him an expertise in knowing what story is being told and the underlying current a business is facing by looking at their financials & data. Tate has all of the needed core technical and business skills needed for high-level securities & corporate advisory, but he also realizes that businesses are human-driven organizations.