{"id":4443,"date":"2023-04-19T21:56:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T01:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=4443"},"modified":"2023-05-25T16:34:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T20:34:42","slug":"ed-patton","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2025\/speaker\/ed-patton\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Patton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Ed Patton<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/e-patton-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Patton\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/e-patton-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/e-patton-85x85.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Since 1976, Ed Patton has worked as a CPA, held private company controller positions, spent a decade as an investment banker, and is now the owner of a corporate financial advisory firm (Patton Systems).<\/p>\n<p>Ed created the \u201cTrender Reports\u201d software and publication.\u00a0 The financial insights provided by the Trender Reports come from real-world experiences:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Participating in the purchase and sales of privately held companies.<\/li>\n<li>Facilitating bank loans for corporate businesses.<\/li>\n<li>Making private company equity valuations.<\/li>\n<li>IPO involvement.<\/li>\n<li>Developing <em>&#8220;cost of equity&#8221;<\/em> calculations to meet state regulatory requirements.<\/li>\n<li>Analysis of financial statements for money management firms.<\/li>\n<li>Working with &#8220;Big 4&#8221; accounting firms.<\/li>\n<li>Arranging debt &amp; equity funding for private and public companies.<\/li>\n<li>Worked as a controller of privately-owned companies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Patton Since 1976, Ed Patton has worked as a CPA, held private company controller positions, spent a decade as an investment banker, and is now the owner of a corporate financial advisory firm (Patton Systems). Ed created the \u201cTrender&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"speaker-category":[132],"speaker-tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-4443","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","speaker-category-132"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/4443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/4443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4492,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/4443\/revisions\/4492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"speaker-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker-category?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"speaker-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker-tags?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandsupplychainconference.org\/wp2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}