Why would you entrust to me the sale of your business, value structuring its IPO, opining on the fairness of its merger, or restructuring to live to fight another day if things did not go as planned?

I've been

• an investment banker for 37 years, first on Wall Street with 2 full-service firms, and then in my firm - helping business founders, shareholders, and board directors understand the value recovery process in real-time - with scores of private and public deals. 
• a director on the Boards of NYSE and Nasdaq companies.
• a conceiver and founder of start-ups and "meeter of payrolls"
• a corporate, M&A, securities, IPO, and tech lawyer at a prominent firm.
• the 6th employee of the tech start-up that became DirecTV.
• a project leader in the Systems Sciences Department of The Rand Corporation, a pre-eminent government-sponsored think tank - explicitly charged with thinking out of the box on strategic military matters.

Ninety-six deals of all types in a variety of industries tell you I'm not afraid to dig in, learn, and be responsible for outcomes. I can both lead and take direction.

How was I trained?  Broad and Deep.  M.A., Ph.D., J.D. (UCLA); B.A. (University of Wisconsin - Madison