Byron Burns is the co-founder of Red Iron Partners. Since 2014 Byron has also been President of Carolina Recording Systems, a service provider of communication recording systems for mission-critical call centers. Prior to Red Iron, Byron was a Managing Director of McGuireWoods Capital Group, a strategic advisory/merger and acquisition firm and an operating unit of McGuireWoods LLP, where he successfully sourced, managed and closed over 20 buy and sell-side transactions. Byron joined McGuireWoods Capital Group from Bojangles’ Restaurants, Inc., a franchisor of quick service restaurants with approximately 350 stores and system-wide sales approaching half a billion dollars. At Bojangles’, he served in various capacities, including Manager of Franchise Sales, Director of Marketing and Public Relations, and Director of Business Development. From 2001 to 2002, Byron was Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis for Wink Communications, Inc., a publicly traded corporation in the interactive television space. As a member of the company’s leadership team, he directed the corporate planning and investor relations functions and supported the sales functions by analyzing and developing new distribution and content licensing structures for cable and television programmers. In 2002, Byron played a leading day-to-day role in the $100 million sale of the company to Liberty Broadband Interactive Television, Inc., a subsidiary of publicly traded Liberty Media. From 1998 to 2000, Byron worked as a Financial Analyst for Bowles Hollowell Conner/First Union Securities, Inc. In this role, he participated in all phases of assignments for the investment bank specializing in merger, acquisition, divestiture, and private financing transactions valued primarily between $10 million and $250 million. Byron is a native of Charlotte, NC. He received his BS in Business Management and Accounting from Washington and Lee University (Cum Laude) in 1998, where he was an L.K. Johnson Scholar and a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society.