Greg Mazzanobile joins Educational Dynamics

Nashville, Tennessee– The Buffkin Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Greg Mazzanobile, to the position of Chief Financial Officer with Education Dynamics, a portfolio company of Halyard Capital.

Mazzannobile comes from The Institute of Culinary Education, Inc. where he was Chief Financial Officer.  Prior to that Greg spent several years in the education and information services sectors with Thomson Learning and Thomson Media, both part of the Thomson Corporation.

Before joining Thomson, Greg was CFO and COO of a MasterCard-backed B2B company established to provide database advertising and market research services using demographically enhanced transactional data.

Greg holds an MBA in finance from Cornell University and a BSEE from Northwestern University.

About Education Dynamics Education Dynamics provides marketing and student affairs professionals the tools they need to meet their critical objectives in recruitment, enrollment yield and retention. The company has pulled together the best in content resources and proprietary technology applications all managed by a team of professionals with unparalleled experience in the higher education field. Collectively, it is the only organization that delivers products and services with a proven track record for helping schools find, enroll and retain students.

Education Dynamics is a portfolio company of Halyard Capital, a New York-based private equity fund with over $500 million of capital under management focused on investing in media, communications and business services companies. The Fund specializes in middle-market leveraged buyouts, growth equity and structured equity investments.