The Lawn & Garden Performance Group, LLC (LGPG) has partnered with Alison Tanner and Tanner Growth to enhance its Mergers & Acquisitions team. 

atanner@lgpg.com
(561) 706-6170

Ms. Tanner works  with The Lawn & Garden Performance Group LLC on acquisitions, mergers, new business development, and financing. Drawing upon her wide-ranging experience as both an investor and a senior corporate development executive, she adds acquisition skills and insight in negotiating mergers and strategic alliances to the Lawn & Garden Performance Group LLC creating an organization dedicated solely to lawn and garden industry Mergers & Acquisitions and Business Partnerships.

Alison has made investments and completed financings totaling hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of public and private growth companies.  She also has extensive experience executing the kinds of initiatives that propel companies forward more rapidly towards their strategic goals.

Alison spent thirteen years on Wall Street as an analyst and portfolio manager for companies including Salomon Brothers and Fred Alger Management.  She then joined the successful turnaround team at Sensormatic Electronics Corporation, a global electronic security company, where she oversaw e-commerce and investor relations.

As Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Strategist for eDiets.com, Inc., a leading provider of online weight loss solutions, Alison led strategic planning, new business line development, mergers and acquisitions and strategic alliances.  She implemented a paradigm-shifting diet licensing initiative that reached $30 million in revenue, launched the award-winning DeliciouslyYours portion-controlled nationwide fresh meal delivery service and accelerated the company’s entry into the corporate hosted services market through the acquisition of Nutrio.com. 

Alison has served as both a state and a national board member of AeA, the leading U.S. technology trade association, and is a founder and board member of New World Angels, a Southeastern angel capital fund.  She also sits on the board of the Enterprise Development Corporation of South Florida, a regional non-profit economic development organization that assists emerging science and technology companies, and the board of the South Florida chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum.  In addition, Alison serves as an instructor for FastTrac^®, an entrepreneurship education program of the Kaufmann Foundation.