20
years

Years of Experience

4/16

Member Since


Experience

 
Merriman Capital, Inc. Finance
Managing Director
05/2015 - Present
Head of Real Estate & Real Assets focused exclusively on raising private equity and debt for owner/operators and developers across all real estate asset classes including hospitality.

Cantor Fitzgerald & Company Finance
Vice President
08/2011 - 05/2014
• Executed a $100 million equity JV for a lift out of one of the top public NNN platforms in the U.S.
• Executed a $55 million land loan private placement for Phase I of LakePoint Land LLC, a 1300+ acre master planned, sports-focused development outside of Atlanta, Georgia.
• Executed over $600 million in at-the-market offerings.
• Executed a $100 million equity joint venture for a NNN firm out of Chicago, contacting over 1,300 investor contacts – blind pool.

Capital Innovations Finance
Vice President
09/2009 - 07/2011
Capital Innovations is a real assets manager (focusing on infrastructure, timber and agriculture investments) for some of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, corporate and public defined benefit plans, endowments and foundations, insurance companies, and financial institutions.
• Actively involved with new business development and capital raising activities.
• Provided asset valuation analysis including preparation of financial models and research.

BMO Capital Markets Finance
Associate
01/2006 - 02/2009
• Built and maintained research files, monitored opportunities, conducted market reviews and coordinated data collection to fulfill information requests from investors.
• Executed in excess of $5 billion of public common equity, preferred equity and debt offerings Marketed, structured, negotiated, and closed a $200 million programmatic joint venture partnership (BMO’s first) between Sealy and Company, Inc. and CalSTRS; generated over $1 million in advisory fee revenue within 12 months of close.

Wachovia Securities, LLC Finance
Analyst
07/2003 - 01/2006
• Involved in over $8 billion of M&A and other strategic advisory assignments, including mergers, reverse mergers, and joint ventures. Responsibilities:
- Financial models including intensive use of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) - M&A, LBO, NAV, Discounted Cash Flow and Joint Venture.
• Sole analyst for $2.9 billion reverse triangular merger