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Placement Agent / 3PM
Marcel Melis
Vice President
Marcel is a member of the Young America Fund Marketing Group - Europe. He has 30+ years experience at BP, Statkraft, Reliant, DELTA Energy, Energy Capital Mgmt/MMT Energy Fund. He received his BA and MBA from Rijksuniversiteit...
Alex Devito
Investment Banking Analyst
Bruce Forrest, MD
Senior Vice President, Co-Head of Healthcare/Life Sciences Group
Dr. Forrest brings 30+ years experience in the pharmaceutical industry in senior executive, scientific and R&D roles at Wyeth (US & Japan) and Chiron. Dr. Forrest received a MB/BS and an MD from the University of Adelaide School of...
Bruce Kaufman
Senior Director, Co-Head of Healthcare/Life Sciences Group
Bruce has 30+ years experience in investment banking, restructurings, capital raising, and public accounting. Prior firms include Rothschild Venture Capital, Lehman Brothers, Compass Advisers and Coopers & Lybrand. Bruce received a BS...
Capt. Jackson Ritchie
Senior Director, Head of Caribbean & LATAM Team, Head of Maritime, Infrastructure & Logistics
Over 44 years of experience in the Maritime industry and business development. Founding member of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force. Former Assistant Port Director at Freeport Harbour Company. Founded more than 9 companies and also...
David Bunzel
Senior Managing Director- Investment Banking, M&A, Public & Private Markets
Young America Capital (YAC) is a 70-person professional investment bank serving small and middle market companies focused on multiple verticals, including Cannabis, FinTech, Healthcare, Entertainment, Consumer Goods and Psychedelics....
David Link
Co-Head Consumer & Retail, Senior Director- Rocky Mountain Region
Dawn Wilson Barnes
Investment Banker
Devansh Mangulkar
Investment Banking Analyst
Donald Jackson
Senior Director - Investment Banking
Cannabis Investment Banking; 30 + years of experience executing fixed income sales, capital raises, asset management and M&A. Previous company experience includes: Salomon Brothers, UBS, Nomura and Prudential. Cannabis experience...
Gabriel Melamed
Senior Director
Gabriel is an accomplished Senior Executive and Advisor with 30+ years of experience in Financial Services, Commodities and Real Estate industries. His broad areas of expertise include investment banking, financial products,...
Gary Hearl
Executive Director
Jeffrey Gold
Senior Managing Director, Investment Banking
Jeffrey has 30+ years investment banking experience in diverse industry sectors including publishing, media, food, beverage and health care. He founded and manages Goldmark Advisers, a team of veteran M&A and management consulting...
Jon Lunsford
Senior Director
Jon has 30+ years of experience executing capital raises and M&A deals in sizes ranging from a few million dollars to over $2 billion. He had founded the media and technology group for what is now SunTrust Bank. He served as senior...
Josh Gould
Senior Director
Josh has 20+ years investment advisory and relationship management experience with HNW and Institutional Investors. Focus on business development initiatives across Young America Capital’s investment banking and alternative...
Mariya Pylypiv, PhD
Vice President
Mark A. Chlapowski
Senior Director
Mark is an emerging markets veteran with 25+ years of experience as a corporate financier and advisor. A generalist, he has served sovereigns, institutions and companies across many industries within the context of challenging markets....
Maryori Vivas
Senior Advisor- Caribbean & LATAM Sector
Michael Kuntz
Senior Director
Michael has 28 years of experience working with emerging companies, raising over $1.0 billion in equity capital for both public and private companies. In addition to investment banking Michael held positions as CFO/COO for three early...
Mike Kaketsis
Managing Director
Nicholas "Claude" Colabella
Director
Omar Brown
Managing Director
Omar has 25+ years of experience in the capital markets advising institutional investors in both the public and the private market. He has been an active advisor and investor (endowment and hedge fund) in the alternative investment...
Peter Formanek, CPA
Founder & Managing Partner
Peter has 30+ years experience advising fund managers, family offices and companies. He has been involved in over 300 transactions over the course of his career and is also involved in the private equity field providing deal...
Raju Panjwani
Managing Director, Investment Banking
Raju has 30+ years’ varied experience in financial services and technology. He has been involved in risk management, operations / technology, business strategy, advising large and mid-sized clients at C-levels, and executing M&A...
Ran Zfoni
Vice President, Tech Investment Banking, Israel & Europe
Ryan Bailey
Senior Director
Samuel Diaz
Vice President
Sean Bailey (Jr.)
Senior Director
Sean Santa
Senior Vice President, Co-head Technology, Media, Telecommunications
Stanley Tobin
Senior Director
Stephen Unterhalter
Senior Director
Stephen Christopher
Investment Banking Analyst
Steven Zelac
Head - Industrials, Chemicals & Manufacturing, Senior Director
Steven is an exceptional and top-performing financial professional with over 30 years experience leading growth,development and restructuring programs. He is accomplished in strategy, mergers & acquisitions, portfoliomanagement,...
Sunny Grewal
Investment Banking Analyst
Tad Bull
Managing Director, Compliance and Administration
Tad has 30+ years of experience in broker-dealer compliance, financial operations, and senior management. He is the compliance and Fin-Op advisor/professional for several broker-dealers in the US. Prior experience includes equity and...
Timothy Busler
Senior Director
Todd D. Slater
Senior Director, Co-Head of Consumer and Retail Banking
Todd has 23 years experience in Consumer Investment Banking and Sell-Side Capital Markets having served in senior roles at Threadstone Advisors, Lazard Capital Markets, and UBS Securities. Todd was also a senior executive and women's...
Tom Bronner
Head of Real Estate, Vice President
Tom has 25+ years experience in financial services including senior roles at Lloyds Bank, National Bank of Canada, Federal Reserve Bank of NY and TD Bank. Tom received his BA in Economics from Columbia University. FINRA Licenses 63 and 82.
Valerie Bowman
Vice President, Co- Head Cannabis Team
25+ years of experience in real estate at JLL, CBRE and C&W. Prior to YAC Val completed the $135M sale of a PA super license and handled several leases for Canadian LP’s. Valerie graduated from Skidmore College and holds a...
Vince Palmieri
Senior Director – Mobility, Sustainable Energy, and Infrastructure
As a managing director for Young America Capital, Vince’s goal is to help companies focused on energy transition, mobility, water and waste infrastructure systems achieve success in their initiatives and improve sustainability....