McGavock Dickinson (“Dick”) Bransford CM&AA joins as Managing Director at Merit Investment Bank.

Bransford is a trusted investment banker with over two decades of M&A and capital markets experience, advising technology-driven and innovation-focused companies across cleantech, MedTech, semiconductor testing, advanced manufacturing, healthcare and business services.

At Merit, Bransford focuses on clean energy, electrification, mobility, resource efficiency, and enabling digital technologies. His perspective combines investment banking expertise with hands-on leadership experience as a founder, VP corporate strategy, and executive across both B2B and B2C markets.

Before Merit, he founded ClimatX.Capital, was a Managing Director at Mid-Market Securities and co-owned a business brokerage.

He holds the Certified Merger & Acquisition Advisor (CM&AA) credential and Series 79 and 63 securities licenses.

A native of Nashville, he earned his business degree from the University of Texas at Austin and later completed an International Executive MBA at California State University East Bay, with global coursework in Asia and Europe.