Our Team

Prior to founding DeParis Redinger LLC, Francesco worked at L’Oréal USA in New York City as an Assistant Brand Manager in the Skincare Division.

After graduating cum laude from Babson College, Francesco joined Microsoft to analyze and assist in the financial management of the Enterprise and Partner Groups, a $14bn sales organization. Francesco then moved on to work on Mergers and Acquisitions in Microsoft’s Treasury group. Most notably, he worked on $300M in transactions, working daily with executives of the respective acquisitions on their closing and integration plans. While working in the Internal Audit group, Francesco spent time in Beijing and Taipei consulting with sales and R&D subsidiaries to improve their performance.

Recognizing the emergence of new industries based on alternative technologies, Francesco founded DeParis Redinger with the premise of empowering visionaries in the international business world. Francesco speaks four languages fluently; Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, French, and English. Francesco is one of BusinessWeek’s 2007 Best Young Entrepreneurs and holds a Google Analytics Individual Qualification certificate.

Kyle Redinger, Managing Director

Before founding DeParis Redinger LLC, Kyle worked for four years with a finance professor at the University of Virginia, doing valuation, merger & acquisition advisory, and related consulting work for privately held companies. He worked across a variety of industries, but completed a notable amount of work in the downstream energy and software industries.

After graduating from the University of Virginia with double majors in Finance and Anthropology, Kyle joined Microsoft as an equity and commodity analyst in their $40 billion investment portfolio. Kyle then moved to the Acquisition Accounting team where he worked on over $300 million in technology and new media related acquisitions. Kyle also served as the sole finance analyst for BizTalk, a server application suite with over $100 million in revenues, during which he forecasted and analyzed revenues and drove key sales strategies.

Kyle founded DeParis Redinger to bring exceptional merger and acquisition banking services to progressive middle market clients. He combines an extensive financial analysis background with a passion for those progressive industries.

Kyle spends his free time day trading, following the technology world and as an avid skier and fly-fisher. Kyle is an Eagle Scout, an active community volunteer and a CFA candidate. He currently resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Kyle is one of BusinessWeek’s 2007 Best Young Entrepreneurs.

Gary Greene, Managing Director (Affiliated Firm)

Gary Greene joined Cribb, Greene & Associates in 2000 after a 30-year career in the newspaper industry. Gary became a partner in the firm in 2006.

Before joining Cribb, Greene & Associates, Gary served as president of Dickson Media, a Virginia-based company he founded in 1988, and grew to 38 different companies in 10 states with more than 1,200 employees.

Gary also started numerous spin-off publications through the years from base companies that were either started or purchased by Dickson. Prior to starting Dickson, Gary spent 17 years with Worrell Enterprises, a family owned print and broadcast media company also based in Virginia. He grew through the ranks, publishing a variety of weekly and daily newspapers. He rose to executive vice president and was in charge of the company’s field and corporate operations and acquisitions. During this period, the company expanded to a national presence with locations from coast to coast and with acquisitions ranging from $2 million to $85 million.

A native of Johnson City, Tennessee, Gary grew up in a newspaper family. His father was a journalist who worked at his hometown paper, the Johnson City Press. Gary worked full-time at the newspaper in a variety of departments for four years while he majored in journalism at East Tennessee State University, and also served as editor of the University’s weekly newspaper.

With dozens of newspaper transactions under his belt, Gary has extensive experience in the negotiation of publishing acquisitions, as well as in valuation and deal structure.

Gary and his wife, Boo, reside in Charlottesville, Virginia, where they are active in community, civic, and church activities. They have two children, Nathan and Caroline.

John T. Cribb, Managing Director (Affiliated Firm)

John’s father and uncle owned and operated daily and weekly newspapers, and over a period of years published newspapers in Indiana, Kansas, California, Oregon, and Montana.

John was the editor and had operating responsibility for a motorcycle racing magazine startup while in college and then worked through all departments at his uncle’s Oregon newspapers. He started by operating a 1250 Multi sheet fed press and flying on a three unit Goss Community web, then spent time as a reporter, ad salesman, ad manager, general manager, and publisher.

While looking for a newspaper to buy, John met John Jepson, a newspaper broker in the Rocky Mountain states. Jepson offered to sell his newspaper brokerage business and Cribb accepted in February 1984, at the age of thirty.

By 1994, John and Bob Bolitho of Krehbiel-Bolitho Media Service decided to merge their firms, creating Bolitho-Cribb & Associates. The Krehbiel-Bolitho newspaper brokerage was originated in Kansas City in 1923, and its evolution to Bolitho-Cribb and now Cribb, Greene & Associates makes it the oldest, continuously operated newspaper brokerage in the country. John is the fifth successive principal broker in eighty plus years of service to the industry.

John has written publication value and sale articles for, and been quoted in, Editor & Publisher Magazine, Presstime Magazine, The Inlander, Publishers’ Auxiliary, Suburban Publisher, The Independent Publisher, INK Magazine, Free Paper Publisher, and others. He has spoken on sale and valuation topics to the National Newspaper Association, Inland Press Association, Independent Free Papers of America, the Association of Free Community Newspapers, and most state and regional publishing associations.

Cribb, Greene & Associates has sold thousands of newspapers and other publications since 1923, and John has personally sold hundreds of publications in addition to appraising forty to fifty papers each year.

John and his wife Barb have two children, John and Sun Hye, and live in Bozeman, Montana.