19
years

Years of Experience

7/15

Member Since


Experience

 
Badger Capital LLC Finance
Manager
02/2014 - Present
Find, manage, and consult for new and existing private investments for a Family Office. I manage a growing portfolio of startup investments in the tech and media sectors.

I research and target our potential investments. I provide strategic consulting to existing investment management teams.

I also manage a public equity portfolio using value and event-driven strategies. I use financial modeling, research and data analysis to drive investment decisions.

Jon Margolis LLC Start-Up
Management Consulting
04/2013 - 12/2013
Completed 4 consulting engagements with early to mid stage technology startups.

Deliverables included:
- Creating business plan
- Investment PPT presentation
- Pitching to potential investors
- Market Research
- Building analytic models to improve marketing, costs, revenue
- Building financial models
- Sourcing strategic investors and partnerships
- Employed process improvement strategies

Sectors:
- Big Data, Mobile Data
- FinTech
- Enterprise SaaS

TCS Capital Finance
Investment Analyst
01/2012 - 02/2013
Long/Short Equity Hedge Fund Focused on the TMT Sectors

- Investment Analyst focused on Cloud/SaaS Sub-Sector
- TMT research analyst generating long and short ideas within the telecom, media, software and internet sectors
- Create financial models, market and industry analyses, communicate with management and industry contacts to provide in-depth reports for investment decisions

Spectra Investment Group Finance
Investment Analyst
01/2008 - 12/2011
Event-Driven Equity Hedge Fund

? Generate financial, trading, and ad-hoc models to evaluate investment ideas and support firm’s risk positions
? Built model for spinoff investing strategy through historic analysis of spinoffs identifying indicators of excess returns
? Produce equity event-driven ideas relating to spinoffs, rights offerings, exchange offers, risk arbitrage, fundamental event catalysts and merger securities (CVRs)

Merrill Lynch Finance
Analyst
07/2005 - 12/2007
Special Situations Group

? Desk analyst providing analyses on a variety of event-driven investment situations: M&A, shareholder activism, stubs, and spinoffs
? Build and update multiple models: real-time spread data analysis for U.S. M&A, screen and analyze for potential LBOs, and in-depth financial models for spinoffs and stubs