Nancy Langer is the co-founder and President of the national M&A firm sbLiftOff, focused on government contractors in the lower middle market. Recently selected by BDO as one of the “Top 50 Women in Middle Market M&A,” Langer leads the firm’s marketing and strategic activities. An active Board member of the National Veteran Small Business Coalition (NVSBC), she led the group’s successful fundraising. She also founded “VetsETA” – the first national conference that every year brings searchers and capital providers together to advance entrepreneurship through acquisition among veterans.
Langer has held senior leadership roles at global multilateral organizations, serving on four continents and in war zones. As Director of External Relations at the Stimson Center, a think tank in Washington, DC. serving the intelligence community, her work on water security yielded a MacArthur Genius Grant award. Her earlier campaign for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees with Meryl Streep, “I’m Sorry, Darfur,” won an Advertising Council award and produced the first YouTube ever posted by any UN agency.
Langer has published in the Harvard Business Review, the Washington Business Journal, USA Today, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Alabama.Com, Ms., and the Baltimore Sun. Her thought leadership has been profiled in U.S. News & World Report, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the International Herald Tribune, NPR and other outlets. A documentary she associate produced, “Changing Our Minds,” was nominated for an Academy Award.
Langer received a BA from Goucher College and also studied at New York University.
