Morgan Joseph Announces Douglas Burke Joins Firm as Managing Director to Focus on Technology Sector.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Morgan Joseph & Co., Inc., a full-service investment bank specializing in middle market companies, announced today the appointment of Douglas Burke Douglas "Doug" Burke (born March 30, 1957) is a former water polo player who won a silver medal for the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of Stanford University. References
Mr. Burke will be based in Morgan Joseph's Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. office. He will apply his 20 years of investment banking experience in providing capital raising and merger and acquisitions advice to clients in the infrastructure software, security, network and systems management software, internet and on-line business and technology-enabled businesses. "Doug brings a wealth of know-how and relationships in the technology area, an industry where we have a great deal of interest, given the broad range of corporate participants," said John Sorte, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Morgan Joseph. "His extensive background, combined with the fact that he has resided in California for many years and knows the market well, makes Douglas an especially valuable addition to our investment banking team and our Los Angeles office. He will provide Morgan Joseph with an effective opportunity to widen our services to this important market." Doug has focused his investment banking career on technology transactions, and over the past two decades has closed over 65 transactions with aggregate transaction value in excess of $1 billion. Most recently, he advised Preventsys on its sale to McAfee, Systems Research Development on its sale to IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Rainfinity on the sale of certain assets and intellectual property rights to Symantec, iPIX on its sale of certain assets and intellectual property rights to eBay, and Medi.com on its sales to MedifaxEDI. Mr. Burke previously led the Software and Services practice at Pagemill Partners and at Montgomery & Co. Mr. Burke also has headed the private placement, emerging growth and software groups at Tucker, Anthony Sutro & Co. He received his B.A. with honors in economics from Dartmouth College Dartmouth College, at Hanover, N.H.; coeducational; chartered 1769, opened 1770, the ninth colonial college (see Wheelock, Eleazar). Originally a men's college, Dartmouth began admitting women in 1972. , and his M.B.A. from the College's Amos Tuck Amos Tuck (1810-1879) was a political figure in New Hampshire, credited by some New Hampshire sources as a founder of the Republican Party. Early life and education School. About Morgan Joseph Morgan Joseph & Co. Inc. is a full service investment bank serving middle market companies. The firm is involved in providing financial advisory and capital raising services including M&A and restructuring advice, and equity and debt private placements and public offerings. In addition, Morgan Joseph provides equity and high yield debt research and trading for institutional clients. Morgan Joseph's staff of more than 125 includes over 65 investment bankers Investment Banker A person representing a financial institution that is in the business of raising capital for corporations and municipalities. Notes: An investment banker may not accept deposits or make commercial loans. , who are highly experienced professionals mostly from major Wall Street firms and intimately familiar with the issues facing middle market companies. |
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