Peter Hartheimer

Managing Director

Peter Hartheimer is a Managing Director with NHB Advisors, Inc.  He has over fifteen years of experience with mergers and acquisitions of distressed corporations.  He has worked in both equity and agent capacities for private equity concerns, law firms, accounting firms, commercial banks, financial advisors and industry corporations.  A sample of his client engagements include capital restructuring, corporate reorganizations, buy and sell side advisory, and assets disposition.

Mr. Hartheimer concentrates in middle market distressed transactions and has extensive experience working within the bankruptcy process. Originally, he was a principal and investor for troubled technology acquisitions and later as senior management in the role of the Business Development Officer for a private equity and merchant banking fund. He has participated in over 35 transactions. His knowledge base includes a keen understanding of valuation and asset recovery. He is skilled at the negotiations of complex sales agreements and has implementation numerous plans of reorganization. 

Mr. Hartheimer has experience in the following industries: healthcare, commercial and general aviation, automotive, avionics, rail, material handling, general manufacturing, pulp & paper, agribusiness, retail and distribution as well as many others.  Some of the companies in which he has been involved include:  Agway, Hitachi Seki, Tiger Aircraft, Hempstead Island Medical Center and Iron Horse Bicycles.

Before entering the financial services industry, Mr. Hartheimer spent 12 years working in industrial engineering software application in support of JIT and lean manufacturing. His clients included Ford, Pratt and Whitney, Northrop-Grumman, Ingersoll-Rand, New Holland, Halliburton, Boeing, Deere and Company, Hatteras Yachts, Yale Material Handling, and many others.  

Previously he has held senior management positions at several firms, including; President of Generative NC Technologies, General Manager of FMS Software and Division of Finn Power USA, Senior Vice President of ClearBid Capital, and Principal of General Capital Partners.
 
Mr. Hartheimer has a BA from the State University of New York at New Paltz and is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute. Additionally, he maintains a board position on the American Bankruptcy Institute healthcare subcommittee.