About

StartupAdvisor.com is a Service of Hinton Mortgage & Investment Co.   Hinton Mortgage & Investment Co. was founded by Charles F. Hinton on June 1, 1950.

James Hinton, Principal | Chairman and CEO

• 37 Years of Experience starting small and medium size businesses
• Successful in meeting on-time budgets and deadlines with tight resource constraints
• Expertise in designing low-cost infrastructure solutions for small and medium sized businesses
• President and COO of federal savings bank with 60+ branch offices and 300+ employees
• Started company, with venture capital, from “kitchen table” that grew to 300+ employees
• Negotiated sale and merger of company to Fortune 500 company
• Negotiated sale of bank to top 20 industry purchaser
• 20 years in senior management of diversified family company with over 300 employees
• Identified, negotiated, set up and oversaw of over 50 branch locations
• 4 years as EVP of large federal savings bank with over $2 billion in assets
• Significant experience dealing with federal and state regulatory issues
• Significant experience dealing with independent accounting and audit firms
• Developed, wrote and implemented two business plans that became companies with over 300+ employees

Bryan Hinton, Principal | President and COO

• Experienced and successful in building and leading world-class technology infrastructures. Career includes senior-level positions with end-to-end ownership of mission-critical IT platforms and software systems –
• CIO of Federal Savings Bank
• Outstanding track-record of success in on-time, on-budget achievement of demanding objectives.
• 12 years of Experience building networks, designing Web applications and Web sites, writing software applications, managing server environments, and managing computer security
• Developed, wrote and implemented business plan for national Internet loan origination platform
• Built technology infrastructure and significantly reduced technology expenses for Federally Regulated Bank – 300+ Employees and 60+ Branches
• Conceived, designed and project-managed development and deployment of national internet presence for a Federal Savings Ban
• Prepared business case analysis, cost proposal and software systems migration strategy for several large-scale systems
• Provided the vision, strategic direction, organizational structure, brand and technologies for a startup division at Federally Chartered Bank
• Significant experience with technology infrastructure implementation
• 5+ years of experience with Search Engine Marketing, Branding, and Search Engine Optimization