Michael Weitzner Email & Phone Number

Nashua, NH

• Lead Securities Due Diligence and Broker Dealer Relations for a $1 billion alternative real estate investment firm focused on single tenant leases. Net Lease Capital is the leading authority in creating, acquiring.
• Business Development and Broker-Dealer Relations. Created a Securities Due Diligence Platform
• Developed Policy and Procedures Framework
• Create Private Placement Memorandums for Delaware Statutory Trust Offerings
• Develop New Channels for Distribution of Firm Offerings

New York, NY

Managing Director in Investment Banking for a boutique broker dealer focusing on capital raises, acquisitions and divestitures for lower middle market companies.

New York, NY

• Created a fundraising platform to support $8 million evidence-based youth development program. Cultivated major, family foundation and corporate donors, and make direct asks. Developed new sustainable revenue streams..
• Quadrupled individual giving in one year, generating $1.2 million through gifts ranging from $2,500 to $100,000.
• Developed a detailed Cost-Benefit Return-on-Investment methodology that quantified Carrera Program’s outcomes and made powerful case to potential funders, and both internal and external stakeholders.
• Spearheaded first-ever earned income revenue stream from sales of program curriculum, launching September 2015.

New York, NY

• Selected by Goldman Sachs for a one-year fellowship at the US’s largest non-profit financier of affordable housing. Investigated and proposed new business opportunities. Introduced Enterprise to new private investment.
• Increased capacity of CFO and finance team to secure private investment, training them to do effective pitches.
• Created new private investment vehicles, several of which were funded.
• Added value to 10 year strategic planning process, advising CEO and leadership with emphasis on social impact investment.
• Produced business plan for creating a central marketplace for Social Impact Investments, currently in development.

Greater New York City Area

• Recruited by founder to develop a public capital markets business. Built relationships across the US, Brazil, India and China. Identified private companies seeking access to institutional investment dollars normally.
• Assessed companies’ fiscal and strategic needs, creating management plans to increase profitability, and fundraising plans targeting institutional, high net worth and family office investors.
• Sourced and closed on a $16 million deal involving sale of a privately-held gaming company in Macau to a Specialty Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC)

New York, New York

• Managing Director - Head of Equities Division (2005 – 2008)Built new equity research, sales & trading business within middle market-focused investment. Oversaw trades for institutional clients and parent company..
• Created strategic vision, securing $3 million in seed funding from senior management.
• Built new business from ground up, including recruiting and training equity team and establishing trading platform.
• Spearheaded team that generated revenues of $8 million in just 18 months. Managing Director, IRG Research (2003 – 2005) Recruited by Jim Cramer and thestreet.com to build a specialty research company capitalizing on.
• Built business from initial concept through business plan to implementation, bringing vision to reality.
• Drove revenue growth from zero to $6.5 million in one year, generating a significant revenue stream for thestreet.com.

New York, NY

• Managing Director / Head of International Sales and Trading (2001 – 2002)Managing Director / Head of NASDAQ Sales & Trading (2000 – 2001) Spearheaded 2 sales and trading divisions working with institutional clients..
• Orchestrated dramatic performance turnaround among international sales and trading by increasing employee engagement.
• Transformed NASDAQ traders’ culture from short-term focus to building long-term profitable customer relationships.
• Drove 65% increase in overall revenues from NASDAQ trading in 1 year.

New York, NY

• Traded retail, financial, healthcare, and high-tech company shares, moving between sectors to learn new industries and take advantage of internal opportunities. Traded on behalf of institutional clients as well as the.
• Consistently among most profitable NASDAQ traders.
• Mentored and methodically trained numerous sales people and traders.
• Collaborated with technology to build front-end trading and reporting systems.

Mba, Finance

Bs Economics, Finance And Political Science