Greg Durst

Executive Director

gdurst@seaburygroup.com

Greg Durst joined Seabury in October 2011 as Executive Director to deepen the firm’s client relationships in aviation and related sectors and to grow capacity from a human capital perspective.

Mr. Durst has over 20 years of professional experience which includes strategy consulting, private equity investment, general management, corporate finance and entrepreneurship development.  Mr. Durst has worked in a broad range of industries, including airlines, energy mining and minerals, technology and financial services.

Most recently, Mr. Durst has been working as a senior advisor on strategy issues for the largest energy company in Africa. Mr. Durst’s previous experience in strategy consulting was primarily with Bain & Company for airlines, private banking, retail banking, private equity, metals and diamond clients.

In the private equity realm, he was a Principal at Horizon Equity Partners, the most experienced mid-size growth capital provider in the Southern African. In this capacity, he was responsible for new deal generation and investor relations. He has also advised private equity funds on due diligence, capital raising and new market entry.

For three years, Mr. Durst was the Managing Director of Endeavor South Africa, an affiliate of Endeavor, an emerging markets-focused entrepreneurship accelerator. In this capacity, Mr. Durst tripled the portfolio of companies served and set the foundation for Endeavor’s further growth in South Africa.

In a general management capacity, Mr. Durst has successfully led the turnarounds for several organizations, including strategy definition, staff reductions, sales enhancement and leadership change. His work on Wall Street included energy corporate finance at Chase Manhattan and leveraged buyouts at Groupe Paribas.

Mr. Durst holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Georgetown University and an MBA from Harvard University.