John Welsh is an investment professional with over 30 years of specialization in North American capital markets. He began his market career as an equity floor trader. The unique insight for stock trading and mkt behavior gained there formed the basis for a successful transition to retail stock broker. He then became head of international institutional equity sales for 12 yrs at Union Securities with offices across Canada and London England. John then networked extensively through Europe , Asia and North America. He cultivated a global client base of investment fund and portfolio managers , wealthy individual investors and high net worth family office venture capital accts.Mr Welsh was responsible for +$250m in public market support and funding plus he expanded the shareholder base for a wide variety of venture level listed companies. He focused on various sectors including mining and technology.John left Union to leverage his years of successful brokerage experience and extensive international contact base to directly address the corporate development needs of select companies. They benefit from access to capital, cornerstone investment and decades of public markets expertise.Mr Welsh was also a co-founding investor and VP Corporate Development for Able Auctions.com. He was instrumental in Able’s early funding and US mkt listing. He continued to assist in expanding the Able shareholder base globally and attracted an influential NY based high tech equity analyst from the top returning tech hedge fund to the Able board. The added credibility, validation and US financial network introduced by the director to John assisted him in helping Able achieve the share price and capital required for a full listing on the Amex exchange in NY.Transformative news on a ground breaking partnership and tech integration with Ebay Live Auctions launched Able Auctions’ share price to a $10 usd high from a sub $1 usd start.John also found success in the commodities space for metallurgical coal sparked by the Chinese construction boom and rising steel demand. The focus was on proven NE BC met coal properties partnered with David Austin founder of Western Cdn Coal. WTN began at .20 then funded to production and later acquired for $3.3B at $12 cdn per share.They also co founded Nemi Mining and Colonial Coal both near Western Coal in NE BC.Nemi was funded to production then bought out by mining major Anglo American. Colonial Coal has the largest pre production high grade met coal deposits in North America. CAD was funded at .15 and has hit a recent high of $3.70 per share.