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, 63 and 79 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 in 1986 from the University of Iowa.

Craig holds his FINRA Series 62, 63 and 79 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 Cline Tool, Inc. and HNc Services and served as a director of Iowa Telecom (NYSE:IWA) from 2005–2010. 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 holds his FINRA Series 62, 63 and 79 securities licenses.
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Alan L. Wells

Alan joined Financial Advisory Partners as a partner in 2010. He has over thirty years experience in financial, operational, and strategic matters, with a focus on creating shareholder value. He has served as the CEO of a publicly traded company, and as CFO of another. In addition, while serving with one of the nation’s largest consulting firms, he consulted with clients in a variety of industries on strategic matters. He has led turn-around operations and start-ups, and has been responsible for the completion of numerous transactions with a cumulative value of over $4 billion.
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Before joining Financial Advisory Partners, Alan led Iowa Telecom (NYSE:IWA) for over ten years. He helped found the company in 1999, and served as President with responsibility for the company’s start-up and all of its operations. He was named Chief Executive Officer in 2002, and was named Chairman after leading the company through its successful initial public offering in 2004. In 2010, Alan joined the Board of Windstream Corporation (NASDAQ:WIN) after its purchase of Iowa Telecom in a transaction valued at over $1.1 billion. Under Alan’s leadership, the company’s initial equity investors more than doubled their investment through the IPO, despite the near collapse of the telecommunications market during that period.

Prior to joining Iowa Telecom, Alan held various positions with MidAmerican Energy (NYSE:MEC) and its predecessors, including Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, President of all unregulated operations, and Vice President of Corporate Development. Upon becoming President of unregulated operations, he was responsible for the restructuring that turned a $21 million annual loss into a $25 million annual profit, and also generated more than $300 million through disposition of four subsidiaries and approximately 30 disparate investments. In addition, he led MidAmerican’s entry into the residential real estate brokerage industry, helping MidAmerican become the nation’s second largest broker in the nation within six months. During his tenure as CFO, the company experienced a 50% increase in its stock price. In 1999, he led the process to sell the company to CalEnergy.

From 1986 through 1993, Alan was with Deloitte & Touche Consulting in Dallas. At Deloitte he led teams of professionals consulting on financial, operational and strategic issues with clients in many diverse industries. Prior to working with Deloitte, he held various positions with the Public Utility Commission of Texas and with Illinois Power Company.

Alan also serves on the Board of Cline Tool. He received a B.S. in Business Administration from Illinois State University, and is a certified public accountant.

Alan holds his FINRA Series 62, 63 and 79 securities registration as a registered representative of StillPoint Capital, LLC.
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