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BIO- Mr. Norwood is a Senior Tatum CFO Partner who does project work in areas of corporate financial policy, strategy, and special situations. Analytical, articulate, and hands-on, he is a speaker and published author in the areas of corporate finance and business strategy. He has assisted Tatum clients in start-up strategy and financing, company valuations, financial benchmarking, performance measurement and incentive systems, evaluation of new investment opportunities, and diagnosis of troubled situations. Within Tatum, Sam is Chairman of the Partner Advisory Committee, having responsibility for advising the Management Committee on the firm's valuation processes, securities management, and other special programs. Sam is also responsible for the development, conduct, and interpretation of the monthly Tatum Survey of Business Conditions. He is a member of The Society of International Business Fellows, a Director of Bio-Plus, Inc. (a producer of agricultural granules from peanut shells), founder and former President and Director of The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Atlanta alumni Club, and a member of The Association for Corporate Growth. He has been a biographee in Who's Who in the World since 1992.
Mr. Norwood's career specialty has been in the economics of finance. In the mid to late 1970s, Mr. Norwood pioneered the application of investment concepts to corporate planning and development at Fuqua. Under his guidance and expertise in financial economics, Fuqua Industries established value-based performance targets, management incentives and resource allocation processes that contributed to Fuqua's achieving one of the highest records for total return to shareholders of any Fortune 500 company. Mr. Norwood received his formal education at Vanderbilt University, Tulane University and the University of Chicago. He earned a B.A. degree in History and Economics from Tulane University in 1964 and an M.B.A. degree in Financial Management from the University of Chicago in 1965. | 
