Managing Director at Green Circle Capital Partners, providing investment banking and advisory services for exceptional growth-stage and lower middle market natural products companies, and Partner at Green Circle Foodtech Ventures, investing in companies creating disruptive food-related technologies.From 1990-2005 I worked in Private Client Group environments at major Wall Street firms (such as Paine Webber and Oppenheimer & Co.) holding the titles of Director - Investments at Oppenheimer, and VP - Investments with two firms prior to that. My style of wealth management, performed through asset allocation and financial planning was well ahead of the curve in the industry and has since become the standard. In 2006 I founded Snow Beverages to make a natural soda, and served as the company's CEO for six years. At Snow I personally raised millions in early-stage financing and sold in the product line to Whole Foods, Super Target, Stop & Shop and many other leading retailers and distributors. I also co-founded Tengrade, the internet's social rating tool. My novel, THE ORGAN BROKER, was named one of five finalists for the 2015 Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime writing. www.theorganbroker.com I have been featured on the WPIX Morning News, on the cover page of the money section of the NY Daily News, in a six-page article in Forbes ASAP, in Crain’s NY and Timeout NY Kids (with my twin sons.) I have also been mentioned in the NY Post, Metro NY, The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, Merger Market, Nutraceutical Busienss Review and others, and been a speaker at Project Nosh, The NY-Israel Foodtech Bridge Conference, NY Entrepreneur Week, Bevnet Bootcamp, Baruch, Columbia U., Pace, and the Stern School at NYU.Specialties: Highly skilled executive and successful salesman/sales manager with expertise in business development, generating and securing new business, high-level consultative sales, sales training/management, consumer marketing, corporate finance, deal structure and negotiation. Closer.