Telecom, Media, and Technology

Technology, Media & Telecom Advisory Deck

technology, media & telecom

Young America Capital is a nationally recognized broker-dealer and investment bank with 50 highly experienced professionals who provide companies and investors with advisory services across a focused range of disciplines. With deep industry and transactional experience spanning over 30 years, our advisory team is acutely aware of the continuous innovation occurring in the media, technology, and telecommunications landscape. We focus our advisory on proprietary, independent, and sound advice, first-class execution, and superior results by understanding transformative industry dynamics.

Service Offerings:

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Our cumulative industry experience and advisory expertise enable us to customize innovative transactional and strategic solutions for the clients we serve. Our team has an extensive track record in exclusive sale advisory and buy-side transactions. We seek to leverage our senior-level industry relationships and analytical expertise to identify and articulate transactional synergies that maximize value in the sell-side process. We also advise on the acquisition and sale of distressed businesses and assets, including identifying opportunities across sectors, including hardware, software, and infrastructure, for value-enhancing consolidation opportunities.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PLACEMENT OF EQUITY & DEBT
Our professionals have a high degree of market insight, having led consumer and retail sell-side capital markets teams at bulge bracket institutions over more than 20 years. We have extensive experience in the placement of private equity and debt leveraging a wide network of both retail and institutional clients. Capital is typically deployed to finance growth initiatives, make strategic transactions, provide liquidity to shareholders, and restructure or stabilize the capital structure.

STRATEGIC ADVISORY SERVICES
Maintaining a high level of confidentiality, we have served as advisors to boards and special committees on a wide range of options, especially concerning strategic solutions that will minimize potential losses and provide a suitable recovery structure for the client, fund managers, and secured lenders.

PUBLIC MARKET ADVISORY
With extensive IPO and secondary transaction experience, we work with management teams to form a comprehensive strategy to articulate positioning and differentiation that results in heightened investor appreciation of the story and thus increasing value and impact in the institutional investor market.

FAIRNESS OPINIONS
We provide fairness opinions under FINRA Rule 5150 relating to transactions between affiliated entities wherein conflicts of interest could arise between related parties.

Technology, Media & Telecom Team

Peter Formanek, CPA

Founder & Managing Partner

914.777.0100

peter@yacapital.com

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...

Jon Lunsford

Senior Director

804.357.2615

jonlunsford@yacapital.com

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...

Sean Santa

Senior Vice President, Co-head Technology, Media, Telecommunications

ssanta@yacapital.com

Sean Santa has over 20 years experience investing in and building companies. He has been an investment banker with Young America Capital for over 5 years and has closed deals in highly regulated industries such as food and beverage,...

Omar Brown

Managing Director

917.204.3773

omar@yacapital.com

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...

Nicholas "Claude" Colabella

Director

claude@yacapital.com

Claude has 30+ years of experience in financial services including alternative assets, hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, investment research, and P & C insurance. He is also co-founder owner of Little’s Specialty Foods. He joined the...

Jeffrey Gold

Senior Managing Director, Investment Banking

917.834.6727

jmg@goldmarkadvisers.com

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...

Bruce Kaufman

Senior Director, Co-Head of Healthcare/Life Sciences Group

347.400.2082

bruce@yacapital.com

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...

Tom Bronner

Head of Real Estate, Vice President

203.858.4012

tom@yacapital.com

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.

Michael Kuntz

Senior Director

561.715.9946

michael@yacapital.com

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...

Donald Jackson

Senior Director - Investment Banking

917.306.2486

don@yacapital.com

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...

Devansh Mangulkar

Investment Banking Analyst

devansh@yacapital.com

Devansh is an Investment Banking Analyst at Young America Capital, with over two years of experience as a Financial Analyst in India. At YAC, he has sourced deals totaling over $25 million, supporting capital raising initiatives across...