Noel McKinney is a principal at The Constant Group, Inc. serving as an appraiser, business broker and information technology consultant. His consulting engagements serve institutional investors such as pensions and hedge funds. Formerly a university instructor, he taught courses in economic principles, banking and financial markets. As a corporate employee, he has worked in database administration, software development and accounting roles. This latter role includes a position with a Fortune 500 corporation where his responsibilities included property, plant and equipment accounting, auditing capital appropriations and conducting physical audits of inventory and fixed assets. Prior to his corporate career, Noel ran a small swimming pool construction business and worked on his family�s farm.

Noel held a graduate research assistantship at Purdue University where he completed two years of doctoral coursework in accounting, economics and quantitative methods. He has two advanced degrees: a Master of Science from DePaul University in Computer Science and a Master of Science from Wright State University in Applied Economics. His Bachelor of Science is in Management, with a Finance concentration, from Purdue. He transferred there from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where he studied engineering and was an Army ROTC cadet. In addition to NEBBI, his professional memberships include International Business Brokers Association, Society of Business Analysts, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.