Michael Smith is an analyst with Iron Capital Advisors and a member of the firm’s investment committee. Michael’s responsibilities include security analysis, mutual fund commentary, trading, research, search coordination, and management of the firm’s ongoing internship program in conjunction with Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business. Michael joined Iron Capital in 2006 and is a Level II candidate for the Charted Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Michael holds a B.B.A in Finance with honors from Georgia State University. Before embarking on his investment career, Michael was a professional musician whose musical career culminated in touring with Grammy-nominated country artists Sugarland. Michael lives in Atlanta and continues to play mandolin and guitar with his band the Dappled Grays.

Virginia Frost Osborne is the director of marketing communications for Iron Capital Advisors and has nearly 15 years of experience in public relations and corporate communications. Frost manages the firm’s web site, public relations and external communications.

Prior to joining Iron Capital, Frost worked in corporate communications for Americas division of IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) PLC. In more than five years with IHG, most recently as the director of brand communications, Frost was responsible for public relations and crisis communications for all IHG hotel brands in North America, including InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo®, Holiday Inn® Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express®, Staybridge Suites® and Candlewood Suites®. Frost began her tenure at IHG with the iconic Holiday Inn family of brands and directed public relations efforts for the brand’s 50th anniversary in 2002 and the global brand relaunch in 2007.

Frost also worked for five years at public relations firm GCI Group (now Cohn & Wolfe) in Atlanta, where she led public relations programs for clients in GCI’s Corporate and Integrated Marketing practices, including Holiday Inn and IHG, Bain & Company, Coca Cola, the American Cancer Society, The Carpet and Rug Institute, Georgia Pacific and KSL Lake Lanier Islands. Frost managed client relationships and account teams to execute business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketing communications initiatives, including national media relations and promotional/marketing campaigns. Frost began her career as the director of membership for the American Gaming Association (AGA), the trade association for the gaming-entertainment industry, in Washington, DC.

Frost holds a B.A. in Journalism from Washington and Lee University and is active with the W&L Atlanta Alumni Board and Peachtree Road United Methodist Church. She and her husband, Chuck, live in Atlanta with their son Charlie.