• Curt Launer Managing Director

    Co-head, Energy investment banking group; Founder, Bakken Energy, developer of clean hydrogen production, transportation and storage applications.

    Won Institutional Investor Magazine’s first place honors for twelve of thirteen years; Inducted into Institutional Investor’s Hall of Fame in 2011 and named “one of the best analysts of all time.”

    Equity research analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) and First Boston, covering natural gas, pipelines, exploration, production and midstream infrastructure industries. 

    Expertise in energy infrastructure, MLP qualifying assets, exploration & production and Liquefied Natural Gas; Led teams at Sagent Advisors, Deutsche Bank and S2K Financial.  

    Originated and participated in over $30 billion in merger and acquisition transactions and over $50 billion in equity and debt capital raising; Testified before Congress and industry regulators regarding gas and oil pipelines, MLPs and natural gas related issues as well as the proceedings involving the demise of Enron, where he assisted the investigation and prosecution of former executives.

    B.S. Accounting, State University of New York – Buffalo.

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  • Alain Lebec Senior Managing Director

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    Investment banker, head of Mergers and Acquisitions and private equity.

    Chairman of the Investment Committee, Brock Opportunity Fund; Co-founder, Reading Excellence and Discovery Foundation; Director, United Way. Former Vice Chairman, Merrill Lynch Investment Banking and Chairman/Co-CIO, Merrill Lynch Ventures.

    l’École Polytechnique (Paris, France); Northwestern U. Kellogg School M.B.A

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  • Ennius E. Bergsma Senior Managing Director

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    Senior consultant, advisor in global corporate finance; corporate and business unit strategy, M&A and marketing in consumer goods, telecomm and e-commerce.

    Investor, Director and Chief Strategy Officer, Passlogix; Chairman, the Netherland-America Foundation; Trustee, the Hewitt School; Honorary Board Member, Chair and President, Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York; Member, Harvard Business School Alumni Council. Former Senior Director, McKinsey & Company, Inc.; Founder and Leader, Global Corporate Finance Practice of McKinsey; Co-Leader, McKinsey’s E-Commerce Practice.

    University of Leiden, the Netherlands, Candidate and Masters Degree in Corporate and Commercial Law; Harvard Business School, M.B.A.

     

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  • Ellen R. Marram Senior Managing Director

    telephone 212-209-3000 ext. 333

    Former CEO, consumer products companies; branding/marketing expert; former private equity partner and chair of portfolio companies; director of public, private and non-profit institutions.

    President, Barnegat Group LLC; Managing Director and Operating Advisor, North Castle Partners, LLC; Director and Chair, Nominating and Governance Committee, Eli Lilly & Co., Ford Motor Company; Presiding Director, Finance Committee Chair, The New York Times Company.

    Former CEO, Tropicana; CEO, Nabisco Biscuit Company.

    Wellesley College B.A.; Harvard Business School M.B.A.

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  • Charles O. Svenson Senior Managing Director

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    Investment banker, expertise in energy, alternative energy, project finance and transportation.

    Co-Chairman, Investment Committee of Hamilton College; Trustee, Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks; Chairman, the Adirondack Nature Conservancy and Adirondack Land Trust; President, Harvard Law School Association of New York City

    Former Managing Director, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (now Credit Suisse); VP, Head of Project Finance,  Goldman Sachs; Dewey, Ballantine, Busby, Palmer & Wood

    Hamilton College B.A.; Harvard Law School LL.B.

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  • Norman H. Brown, Jr. Senior Managing Director

    telephone 212-209-3000 ext. 215

    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.

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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.

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  • Jongsoo James Lee Managing Director

    telephone 212-209-3000 ext. 165

    Investment banker; business consultant; published author; expert in Asian, Eurasian and global affairs.

    Experienced in M&A, strategic advisory work, and capital raises in industries such as energy, technology, mining, life sciences, transportation, consumer goods, and commercial real estate; previously, Director, Brock Capital Group; Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Asia Quarterly; Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; Associate in Research, Korea Institute, Harvard University; <a href=”http://www.finra.org” target=”_blank”>FINRA</a> Series 7 & 63; Member, Pacific Council on International Policy. 

    Williams College B.A.; Harvard University Ph.D.

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  • Louis A. Bradbury Senior Managing Director

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    Former CEO, tax lawyer, investment banker, principal in private equity firm; private investor. 

    Former CEO, Bradbury & Company, Revere Copper & Brass; OCWEN Financial; Vice President, Merrill Lynch; Attorney, Covington & Burling; Department of Justice; President, Board of Directors, GMHC.

    Northwestern University B.A.; Harvard Law School J.D

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  • Jenne K. Britell Advisor

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    Former CEO, global and domestic diversified financial services companies and advisor to private equity, venture capital, and public companies in the areas of financial products and services; professional director, public and private companies and non-profits, including positions as non-executive Chairman, Audit Committee Chair, and designated financial expert

    President, Global Commercial and Mortgage Banking and Executive Vice President, Global Consumer Finance, GE Capital; former President and CEO, GE Capital, Central and Eastern Europe; President and CEO, GE Mortgage Services Senior Advisor to E-Bay and PayPal for Financial Services; Chairman, United Rentals; Chairman of Audit Committee and designated financial expert, Crown Holdings; Director, member of Audit and Finance Committee, designated financial expert, and member of Compensation Committee, Quest Diagnostics; Director and Chairman of Audit Committee, U.S. Russia Fund and U.S. Russia Foundation for Entrepreneurship and the Rule of Law; Former Director, TIAA-CREF and Aames Investment Corp., and Director and designated financial expert, Lincoln Financial and West Pharmaceutical Services.

    Harvard University, B.A., M.A.; Columbia University, M.S., Ph.D.

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  • Jean D. Hamilton Senior Managing Director

    CEO, diversified financial services companies. Operating and investment expertise. Director of public and private companies in insurance, financial services, money management. Director and committee member of non-profit entities.

    Currently, RenaissanceRe Holdings Director, First Eagle Funds and First Eagle Variable Funds Trustee, Chair of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site Investment Committee, and member of the Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg Foundaiton Investment Advisory Committee.

    Former CEO of Prudential Institutional, EVP of Prudential Financial, President of Prudential Capital, President of Prudential Asset Sales and Syndications, and SVP of The First National Bank of Chicago (now J.P. Morgan Chase).

    University of Illinois B.S.; University of Chicago M.B.A.

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  • Karen N. Horn Senior Managing Director

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    Former CEO, diversified financial services; professional director; economist; Former Federal Reserve Bank president.

    Director and/or lead director, Norfolk Southern Corporation, Eli Lilly, Simon Property Group, Fannie Mae, T. Rowe Price Funds, U.S. Russia Investment Fund. 

    Former Managing Director, Marsh & McLennan Companies; Managing Director, Bankers Trust; Chairman & CEO, Bank One of Cleveland; President, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Treasurer, Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania; Director, TRW, Rubbermaid, British Petroleum, Georgia-Pacific, The Rockefeller Foundation.

    Pomona College B.A.; Johns Hopkins University Ph.D.

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  • Carl H. Pforzheimer III Senior Managing Director

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    Investment banker, philanthropist, and private investor.

    Manager, Carl H. Pforzheimer & Co.; Board member and chair of numerous charities and educational institutions including the New York Public Library, Lincoln Center, Pace University, Visiting Nurse Service of New York and Horace Mann School; Director of boards including U.S. Trust and Ampco-Pittsburg Corp.; Designated Representative of the State Comptroller for the Municipal Assistance Corporation for the City of New York. President, Harvard Alumni Association.

    Harvard College A.B.; Harvard Business School M.B.A.

     

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  • Dale A. Reiss Senior Managing Director

    Senior Partner, CPA firm; expert in real estate, hospitality and construction; public company audit chair.

    Global Head of Real Estate, Ernst & Young LLC; Managing Partner, Kenneth Leventhal & Co.; Senior Vice President, Urban Investment & Development Co.; Board Member, iStar Financial Inc.; Tutor Perini Corporation, CYS, Inc.; Case Capital Properties; The Guttmacher Institute and Pension Real Estate Association; Governor, Urban Land Institute.

    Illinois Institute of Technology B.A.; University of Chicago M.B.A.

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  • Davis R. Robinson Advisor

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    International trade and investment advisor and arbitrator, corporate governance advisor and international lawyer.

    International Arbitrator, ICSID & NAFTA; Senior Managing Director, Richard C. Breeden & Co., LLC.

    Former Senior Partner, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP;  Legal Adviser, United States Department of State; career Foreign Service Officer; Adjunct Senior Fellow in international law, Council on Foreign Relations;  extensive experience in the Middle East

    Yale College B.A.; Harvard Law School LLB.

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  • David B. Newman Senior Managing Director, Brock Securities Capital Markets Group

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    Investment banker

    Over 20 years experience in real estate investment, capital markets, management and development. Former chief investment officer, Empire American Holdings LLC, one of the largest national multi-family property owners in the United States. Formerly part of the retail development group at The Related Companies; general counsel of Strategic Development Concepts, Inc., a Westchester based real estate company; part of the corporate practice group of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel.

    Hofstra University; Fordham University School of Law J.D.

     

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  • Alan J. Biloski, Ph.D. Senior Managing Director

    Former Head of Pharmaceutical/Biotech M&A at Merrill Lynch; Founder and Global Head of Healthcare Group at Wasserstein Perella; alumnus of M&A Group at First Boston. >$150 Billion in career transaction volume. Director, The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research.

    Yale University, B.S, M.S.; Cornell University, M.S., Ph.D.; Columbia University M.B.A

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  • Ramin Patel Director

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    Ramin Patel is a Director of Brock Capital Group LLC.

    Investment banker with over a decade of experience in real estate development and management. Prior to joining Brock, he sourced capital from the private equity sector and founded a housing company focused on affordable multi-family units in Asia. Currently, he serves on the board of a boutique mall development and management company, where he oversees the company’s strategy.

    Ramin is a member of the Alfred Noble Society of National Scholars, and received a B.A. from Harvard University.

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  • Charles L. Brock Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

    Director, designated “financial expert” and audit chair of public companies; investment banker; corporate lawyer with operating experience.

    Director, B+H Ocean Carriers.

    Managed numerous businesses including the twelve subsidiaries of Compton Communications (now Saatchi & Saatchi); Former Publisher and President, Scholastic International, also CFO and COO. Carter, Ledyard & Milburn; Sullivan & Cromwell; Director, B+H Bulk Carriers (subsequently, Excel Maritime Carriers) and B+H Maritime Carriers; President, Harvard Alumni Association; President, Harvard Law School Association.

    Northwestern University B.A.; Harvard Law School J.D.; Harvard Business School, AMP

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