Challenge Group International, LLC ( “CGI” ) was originally organized in the late 1980′s to provide consulting and advisory services to a variety of business sectors that included financial, energy, real estate, industrial and media including radio & television industries. The company emerged out of that decade into a more strategically focused provider of capital and financial services to those companies that needed comprehensive investment banking services. The majority of these entities were ones that the founder & principal of CGI had been instrumentally involved in as a shareholder or executive officer including Chairman, CEO, or Managing Partner as well as a minority investor in many capacities during those early years of growth.