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Raymond Pirtle Jr. began an investment career in 1966 at J.C. Bradford & Company in Nashville. There he served as a registered institutional salesman, before rising to the ranks as general partner. His focus was on portfolio managers and analysts in the United Kingdom, Europe Chicago and the Mid-Atlantic. From 1989 until 2001, Pirtle was a director of Equitable Securities (SunTrust Equitable) and co-manager of institutional sales, growing the firm's revenues ten-fold during this twelve-year tenure. In 2001, along with five partners, he founded Avondale Partners - a firm dedicated to institutional research, sales, trading and investment banking, with private and public small cap corporations. Since 1985 Pirtle has been serving on the board of both public and private companies. He currently serves on the board of Premier Global Services (PGI) and a NYSE company. | 