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Shannon Lowther, Managing Partner

CFA · ASA · ABV

Shannon has over 25 years of financial services experience, has participated in more than 2,500 business valuations, and has spent over two decades providing corporate valuation advisory services at leading international firms. Before co-founding Central Pacific Valuation, she served as Director of Valuation Services at Grant Thornton in both San Francisco and London, leading complex valuation engagements for public and private companies, venture capital and private equity funds, and institutional clients.

Her engagement experience spans the full spectrum of corporate valuation — from pre-revenue venture-backed companies through successful IPOs of $750 million to $7 billion, acquisitions by public companies, and private equity-owned firms valued in the billions. She has provided M&A-related financial reporting valuations, tax structuring valuations, and 409A equity valuations for venture- and private equity-backed companies, working extensively under U.S. GAAP and IFRS. Earlier in her career, Shannon held valuation roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers, American Appraisal Associates, and KPMG, and was a founding member of Grant Thornton’s U.S. fairness opinion practice.

In addition to client-facing work, Shannon managed Grant Thornton’s San Francisco valuation practice operations, tripling managed revenues over four years through business development with major accounting and law firm referral networks. Earlier in her career, she co-managed a value-oriented technology equities mutual fund at Murphy Investment Management that outperformed the NASDAQ during her tenure, and performed equity research for institutional convertible securities portfolios totaling over $2 billion at Froley, Revy Investment Co.

Shannon holds the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst, CFA Institute), ASA (Accredited Senior Appraiser, American Society of Appraisers), and ABV (Accredited in Business Valuation, AICPA) credentials. She earned her MBA in Finance from UCLA Anderson School of Management as a UCLA Investment Fund Fellow, and holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Redlands, where she graduated cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. A Bakersfield native, she returned to the Central Valley in 2017 to co-found Central Pacific Valuation with Kevin.