Camino Real Advisors provides strategic, financial and operating guidance to families, founders, management teams and private equity firms that operate and invest in consumer facing businesses. We seek to develop long term relationships with a small number of outstanding brands and will invest capital as appropriate. We have extensive experience helping emerging brands grow in a high-quality way and advising families and founders on strategic alternatives, succession planning, capital structure and other matters common to family-owned business.  We have deep experience working with private equity firms, lenders, families and founders when institutional capital is being invested for the first time.

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Lupe Tortilla

Lupe Tortilla Holdings, Inc. (“Lupe”) (June 2014-present) Shackelford currently serves an advisory director to Lupe which was founded in 1983...

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JuiceLand

Subramanium LLC (“JuiceLand”) (November 2017-present) Shackelford currently serves as an outside director of JuiceLand which was founded in 2003 and...

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Financial Advisory for rapidly growing companies

  • Strategic, financial and administrative guidance
  • Guidance on capital structure/financing options
  • Planning and building infrastructure to support growth
  • Specializing in the transition from founder-owned businesses to first institutional capital
  • State of the art Financial Planning and Analysis

Clint Shackelford

Clint Shackelford has more than 30 years of experience working as an executive in multi-unit consumer-facing companies and an advisor to families, founders, management teams and private equity firms that operate and invest in consumer facing businesses.  Shackelford’s roles have included advisor, CFO, interim CEO/CFO and board member.  Shackelford has extensive experience helping emerging brands grow in a high-quality way and advising families and founders on strategic alternatives, succession planning, capital structure and other matters common to family-owned business.  Shackelford has deep experience working with private equity firms, lenders, families and founders when institutional capital is being invested for the first time.