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Investment banker; expert in metals, mining, infrastructure and mergers & acquisitions.
Headed restructuring and metal & mining, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc, Credit Suisse First Boston; SVP, Head of M&A Department, E.F. Hutton; Director, Macquarie Infrastructure Company Trust; Trustee and member, Investment Committee of the University of Oregon Endowment Foundation.
University of Oregon B.A.; University of Pennsylvania Wharton School M.B.A.
Norman H. Brown, Jr. is a member of Brock Capital Group LLC, an Independent Director at Macquarie Infrastructure Company Trust, and an Independent Director at W. P. Stewart Growth Fund, a global investment advisor providing equity management services.
Previously, Mr. Brown was a Managing Director and Senior Advisor in the Global Industrial & Services Group at Credit Suisse First Boston and a Managing Director in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation, where he started and headed the Restructuring Group and headed the Global Metals and Mining industry practice. He was a Senior Vice President at Oppenheimer & Co., where he was one of five partners in a boutique Mergers and Acquisitions department, and Senior Vice President at E. F. Hutton & Company, where he was head of the M&A Group. Prior to that, Mr. Brown was an Associate and Second Vice President at Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. Mr. Brown served as an Ensign and Lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve. He attended Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, and Served as a Line Officer in Operations and Engineering aboard two destroyers of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Norman Brown is a Trustee of the University of Oregon Foundation. He holds a B.A. from the University of Oregon and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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David O. Zenker, Jr. Senior Managing Director
David O. Zenker, Jr. has been a member of Brock Capital Group LLC since 2003. He is an investment banker, principal and advisor specializing in the conception, planning and funding of start-up and early-stage companies whose product or service represents a paradigm shift that offers a self-evident, marked improvement over current standards. Mr. Zenker’s particular areas of interest are biotech, medical devices, alternative energy and sustainable business models with commercial and social significance.
David O. Zenker, Jr. has been a member of Brock Capital Group LLC since 2003. He is an investment banker, principal and advisor specializing in the conception, planning and funding of start-up and early-stage companies whose product or service represents a paradigm shift that offers a self-evident, marked improvement over current standards. Mr. Zenker’s particular areas of interest are biotech, medical devices, alternative energy and sustainable business models with commercial and social significance.
Mr. Zenker began his career in 1977 in the Investment Analysis and Research Department at J. Henry Schroder-Wagg in London. In 1978, he formed a partnership, Frith, Kirk & Zenker, providing management and marketing consulting services to European companies operating in the Arabian Gulf. He was based in Sharjah, U.A.E. where to complement his consulting work, he developed and managed under the direction of Frederick Pittera, an American pioneer in the exhibition industry, the Arabian Gulf’s leading exhibition, conference and entertainment center from 1978 – 1982. Following the overthrow of the Shah of Iran in 1979, the assassination of Egyptian President Sadat in 1981 and the general economic downturn of the region, in mid-1982 Mr. Zenker returned to the U.S. where for two summer seasons he was the Executive Director of the Waterloo Foundation for the Arts, overseeing the foundation’s historic village and music festival in Stanhope, NJ. In 1983, Mr. Zenker joined the fixed income department at Bear Stearns in New York, working first in high yield bonds and then specializing in bankruptcies and restructurings. He subsequently worked in the same field at Oppenheimer & Co. from June 1988 to June 1991 and Jefferies & Co. from July 1991 to April 1993. Following Jefferies, he served as President of Van Beuren Capital Management where he acted as both principal and advisor in connection with private equity investments related to energy, life sciences, real estate, gaming, advertising and general industrial manufacturing. Mr. Zenker has a B.A. from Brown University and a M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business.
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Trevor has over 35 years of experience as a business owner, entrepreneur, investor and senior executive specializing in niche manufacturing, telecommunications, enabling technologies, mergers and acquisitions, and specialty financial services product structuring and financing.
Trevor has over 35 years of experience as a business owner, entrepreneur, investor and senior executive specializing in niche manufacturing, telecommunications, enabling technologies, mergers and acquisitions, and specialty financial services product structuring and financing.
Former roles include founder and CEO of K-Tech Microprecision, a leading international telecom fiber optic component manufacturing specialist acquired by 3M Corporation; founder and Chairman of Auriga Europe, a specialist telecom and datacom accessory products online distributor and educator; and Chairman of the Advisory Board for Exterprise Europe, an enabling intelligent (AI) agent software.
Trevor ran and built his family’s business Stylus Supplies Ltd, into the leading provider of audio components and accessories for vinyl record player needles, pickup cartridges and compact disc optical laser assemblies which led to the diversification into high-performance fiber optic products for long distance telecom and nascent Internet /Broadband global networks.
Trevor is also cofounder of NIW Corporation a trusted specialist in innovative financed estate, business and retirement planning solutions for high net worth individuals, families, business owners, executives and multi-industry professionals in the United States. Over the past 18 years, he has been responsible for helping facilitate $5bn of financing for NIW’s industry-leading range of programs and solutions, including major private and mid-market banks in the US.
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