I am an investment banker and advisor- focused on family offices private equity projects (mostly growth capital) and special situations investors. I also manage a good list of former military officers working on Wall Street- and organize small networking events for us to stay in touch. As a ...more

I am an investment banker and advisor- focused on family offices private equity projects (mostly growth capital) and special situations investors. I also manage a good list of former military officers working on Wall Street- and organize small networking events for us to stay in touch. As a quick introduction, after a five-year stint as an Army officer, I started my Wall Street career in 2001 as a quant trader on the foreign exchange desk at Deutsche Bank. In 2004, I went to the DB “Innovation Committee” and got approval for a prop trading platform. I then joined a global macro hedge fund as a junior partner. We were funded through a seed from a family office. Nikko AM bought our Fund in 2008- and I moved full time to advising and brokering the family office investors. Currently, we assist family office clients and their companies with a variety of concerns: investments, interim liquidity, financing unusual assets (private credit), private equity, some fund raising, etc. I do a lot of work with special situations- and have experience assembling decision criteria from numerous family members with differing agendas. I keep an eye on the resultant tax, estate and generational issues and work with the families’ professional advisor team. I also have been with original teams that started funds and a subsequent broker–dealer. So I also have experience in due diligence: legal, compliance, administration. Specialties: Series 79, Series 7, Series 63less