Jerome Levy
Managing Partner
Jerome has been with MESA since 2003, where he has spearheaded an array of investment banking, strategy and valuation engagements for companies throughout the media space. His particular focus is on intellectual property stemming from entertainment content and distribution, including recorded music, music publishing, film, television and theatrical productions. He has developed a network of specialized investors and clients that bridges the gap between financial and strategic players in the media and entertainment space.
- Compass Partners, a leading M&A advisory boutique, where he represented clients in music publishing, educational publishing, cable television and post-production. Jerome worked on structuring transactions between financial institutions and clients including EMI and McGraw-Hill.
- Business Development at Canal Plus, a division of Vivendi Universal, responsible for managing acquisitions in the fields of video, music publishing and production. Vivendi Universal is one of Europe's largest media companies with holdings in television production, film and music.
- Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs International in London, where he worked on mergers and acquisitions, U.S. listings of European companies and privatizations.
- M.B.A. from The Wharton School of Business; B.A. from Northwestern University.
Mark Patricof
Managing Partner
Mark is an expert on all types of entertainment industry transactions, advising a wide range of leading traditional and digital content and distribution companies.
- Co-founder and CEO of <kpe>, a renowned provider of digital solutions for media and entertainment companies. <kpe> guided some of the biggest names in the industry, including CBS, Sony and Viacom, on the development of their earliest digital initiatives. In partnership with Grey Advertising, the Endeavor Agency (now WME) and Wasserstein Perella, <kpe> also managed an early stage venture fund that invested in over 20 digital media companies.
- Former Head of Business Affairs for The Voyager Company, a pioneering multimedia publishing company.
- Began career at Creative Artists Agency.
- Former Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award finalist.
- Member of the Board of Directors of Rockwell Group, New York Cruise Lines, and serves as Chairman of the Board of New Heights.
- B.A. from Emory University.
Brian Richards
Managing Partner
Brian has been with MESA since 2003, where he has led a broad range of investment banking, strategy and valuation engagements for companies across all segments of the media and entertainment industries. Brian has expertise within a number of traditional and digital media sectors, including music publishing, film, online media, digital content production and distribution, stock photography, consumer and business publishing, and television production.
- Strategy Consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and then with MESA. Brian focused on engagements for media and entertainment companies including Nickelodeon, Elsevier, Reed Business, National Geographic, BMG Music, Paramount Parks, Lexis Nexis, Harry Fox, MusicNet and the World Economic Forum.
- Founder and CEO of The Movies Magazine, the first magazine of newsstand quality distributed in movie theaters nationwide, where he managed all aspects of the business including sales, finance, distribution and editorial.
- M.B.A. from The Wharton School of Business; J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School; B.A. from Tufts University.
Daniel J. Gossels
Managing Director
Daniel joined MESA in 2009 and is responsible for providing merger and acquisition advisory and capital raising services to growth companies in the digital media industries.
- Principal in the media practice and sector head for online entertainment, games, publishing and social media at Montgomery & Co., where his M&A clients included Club Penguin, DailyCandy, UGO, Grouper, iFilm, ITtoolbox and eCRUSH. Private placements included Realtime Worlds, WildTangent and Reactrix.
- President and Chief Operating Officer of Hypnotic (Enigma Media, Inc.), where he played a central role in building the company from a start-up into a leading digital media, film and television company. Hypnotic's credits included: The OC, The Bourne Identity and Cry Wolf.
- Investment banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation (DLJ), where his media clients included Charter Communications and Qwest Communications.
- Investment banker at Bankers Trust/BT Securities Corporation, where he worked in the corporate capital markets and asset finance groups in New York and Hong Kong.
- M.B.A. from Columbia Business School; B.A. from Brown University.
Michael W. Josephs
Managing Director
- Director in the Media & Telecom Group at Credit Suisse, where he was responsible for relationship management, business development and transaction execution across a wide variety of sectors including music, education, cable, newspapers, cable networks, entertainment, publishing, new media and fixed satellite services. He completed corporate finance and M&A transactions for clients including Intelsat, Univision, WideOpenWest, McClatchy, Cambium Learning, Cablevision, Liberty Media, Atlantic Broadband, Delta Education, ABRY Partners, Apollo, Madison Dearborn Partners, Apax, Avista Capital and The Wicks Group.
- Seven years in Merrill Lynch's Global Media Group, where he executed transactions on behalf of clients including Liberty Media, Viacom, Cox Communications, Time Warner, Canal Plus, Reader's Digest, Thomson and Warner Music Group.
- B.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
Roderick "Roddy" Moon
Managing Director
Roderick "Roddy" Moon is responsible for providing merger and acquisition advisory and capital raising services to growth companies in the digital media industry. Roddy has over 14 years in investment banking and private equity and over 8 years of continuous coverage of the Internet, online marketing services, e-commerce and mobile sectors.
- Led the Digital Media & Internet practice on the east coast for Jefferies & Company. Representative clients included Bankrate, Collective, e-Rewards and Yahoo!.
- Vice President at Allen & Company where he was responsible for over $3 billion of M&A and private placement transactions in traditional and digital media, including transactions with Providence Equity, 1-800-Flowers, InterActive Corp, Liberty Media and NewsCorp.
- Private equity investor at GE Equity, the private equity arm of GE Capital and TenX Capital, a Cerberus-affiliated technology fund. Also, an investment banker at Merrill Lynch and Citicorp Securities.
- One of the first employees at a start-up company in the media/recruiting services sector, Crimson & Brown, which was successfully sold to Kaplan, a division of The Washington Post.
- M.B.A. from The Wharton School of Business; A.B. from Harvard University.
Isaac Palmer
Managing Director
Isaac is one of the leading experts on film and television transactions and is responsible for leading MESA's office in Los Angeles, where he spearheads our Hollywood practice.
- Managing Director at Fortress Investment Group, where he was responsible for the firm's media and entertainment investments.
- Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Paramount Pictures, where he was responsible for structured film finance, including Melrose Investors, LLC, the first major studio slate investment.
- Head of Business Affairs at Ogden Entertainment in New York.
- M.B.A. from The Wharton School of Business; J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; B.A. from Columbia University.
Mark Wasserberger
Managing Director
- Managing Director in the media practice at Montgomery & Co., where he managed the company's New York investment banking office and led the firm's efforts in the advertising and marketing services sector. He advised on a wide range of transactions including public and private offerings of debt and equity, strategic mergers and acquisitions, and corporate partnering advisory work.
- Investment banker with The Blackstone Group and with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
- M.B.A./M.I.A. from Columbia Business School/Columbia School of International and Public Affairs; B.S. from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
Marni Wieshofer
Managing Director
- Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Mergers & Acquisitions and Chief Financial Officer at Media Rights Capital, where she was responsible for identifying and developing new entertainment ventures and strategic acquisitions for the company as well as corporate finance, including structuring a $340MM JPMorgan-led revolving credit facility in 2008 and its renewal in 2011, structuring a film output arrangement with Universal Pictures and leading and managing all financial reporting and analysis.
- Executive Vice President, Corporate Development at Lionsgate Entertainment, where she oversaw all facets of the company’s mergers, acquisitions and other strategic financial initiatives including the acquisitions and integration of Trimark Pictures, Artisan Entertainment, Redbus Films Distribution U.K., Debmar Mercury, Break.com, Roadside Attractions and Mandate Pictures as well as the sale of Lionsgate Studios and the Canadian distribution business.
- Chief Financial Officer at Lionsgate Entertainment, where she was responsible for all aspects of finance and accounting, treasury and tax management and helped structure, negotiate and close several debt financings and equity offerings.
- Vice President of Finance at Alliance Communications Corporation, where she was a member of the deal team that facilitated the Alliance Atlantis merger, took Alliance public in the United States and orchestrated several acquisitions, debt and warrant offerings.
- Principal at Coopers & Lybrand Chartered Accountants in Toronto, Canada.
- M.B.A. from the University of Toronto; B.A. from the University of Western Ontario.
Gee M. Leung
Director
- Principal at Inverness Advisors, where he led the firm's efforts in the Digital Media sector.
- Vice President at Montgomery & Co., where he was a part of the Media Team. While at Montgomery, Gee led execution on financing and M&A transactions for leading digital media companies including KickApps, Meebo, Move Networks and Sportvision.
- M&A banker at Friedman Billings Ramsey, advising companies across the technology and media industries.
- Corporate Finance banker at Citigroup in its broader technology practice.
- B.A. from University of California Berkeley.
Elliott Mandelbaum
Vice President
- Analyst in the Technology, Media and Telecom banking group at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he advised media and entertainment companies on their financing needs with a particular focus on structured finance markets, originating securities and loans collateralized by media and entertainment assets. He was also very active in the group's film finance initiatives, arranging slate financings on behalf of film studios and independent production entities.
- B.S. from The Johns Hopkins University.
Andrew Montgomery
Vice President
- Analyst in the Media & Communications Group at Merrill Lynch, where he covered a wide variety of sectors including education, entertainment, telecommunications, publishing, mobile, new media and wireless infrastructure. He completed corporate finance and M&A transactions for clients including National Cinemedia, Verizon, Cinemark, NextG Networks, Kaplan, Madison Dearborn Partners, Quadrangle and Providence Equity Partners.
- B.A. from Georgetown University.
Jeremy Snepar
Vice President
- M&A/Restructuring at Lehman Brothers, where he advised distressed companies on corporate finance decisions.
- Vice President of Business Development at the New York Film Academy, a film and acting school based in New York. Responsibilities included overseeing traditional and digital marketing campaigns and establishing partnerships with leading media companies.
- Independent film producer with experience in feature and short films, commercials and music videos.
- B.A. from Cornell University.
Jacob Brody
Head of Business & Community Development
- Co-founder and Chairman of Standard Start, a non-profit providing free standardized legal documents and educational resources to startup businesses.
- Mentor for the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Incubator.
- Writer for the blog VentureBeat, where he covered startups, venture capital, digital media, technology and public policy
- B.A. from Hunter College.
Alissa Ananieva
Associate
- Analyst at Merrill Lynch in London, where she worked on corporate finance and M&A projects for EMEA corporations and private equity clients including AXA Private Equity and the Carlyle Group.
- M.S. ESCP Europe, Paris, France.
Miguel Burger-Calderon
Analyst
- Analyst at MESA, where his responsibilities include industry research, financial analysis, valuation and modeling for music, radio and digital media clients.
- B.A. from Bentley University.
Ted Nguyen
Analyst
- Analyst with MESA, where his responsibilities include industry research, financial analysis, valuation and modeling for a broad range of film, publishing and digital media clients.
- B.A. from Columbia University.
Lisa Barbieri-Pigott
Finance Director
- Senior Staff Accountant at La Sala C.P.A., where she managed a broad spectrum of client accounts and specialized in the formation of corporate organizations; individual, partnership, trust and corporate tax returns; accounting; auditing; tax notice resolution; tax planning and the preparation of financial statements.
- B.B.A. in accounting from Dowling College; A.A.S. from Suffolk Community College.
Yumi Kim
Operations Director
- Business development at Tribeca Enterprises, the umbrella company of the Tribeca Film Festival and Tribeca Cinemas, where she worked on new business initiatives with sponsors and partners including American Express, GM and Amazon.com.
- International development at the Museum of Television & Radio, now the Paley Center for Media, in New York City, where she brought in new corporate international board members and donors from around the world including NDTV (India) and TV Asahi (Japan).
- M.A. in International Economics and International Relations from The Johns Hopkins University; B.A. from Princeton University.
Robert B. Machinist
Senior Advisor
Robert ("Bob") has extensive experience both as a principal investor/operator as well as an owner-operator of diversified investment banking operations. He also runs a private family investment company whose activities range from the Collectors Car Garage to a number of real estate development businesses.
- Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking for the Bank of New York (BNY) and its Capital Markets division, where he was responsible for M&A and all private placement activities. Bob coordinated BNY's direct investment activities with its investment banking functions, including interaction with numerous investment funds for which the bank was a principal investor. Bob was also a member of the BNY Commitment Committee and the BNY Capital Markets, Inc. Board of Directors.
- President and a Principal Founder of Patricof & Co. Capital Corp. and its successor companies, where he was responsible for and a principal capital backer of the development of the firm and its investment banking business. Bob remains a general partner of the historic domestic Patricof investment funds and a special general partner of several of the international Apax funds.
- Managing Director and co-CEO of Midland Capital Corporation (MCC), a publicly listed diversified small business investment company with holdings in aerospace, defense, energy and financial services.
- B.A. from Vassar College.
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Merrill Brown
Senior Advisor
- Founder and Principal of MMB Media LLC, a management and strategy consulting company that provides clients with corporate, editorial and program development business analysis and marketing services; Partner with Propeller LLC, a New York consultancy.
- Senior Vice President, RealNetworks' RealOne Services, where he was responsible for all of their programming business. During his tenure, RealOne grew to over 1M paid subscribers.
- First Editor-in-Chief of MSNBC.com. During his leadership, the company became one of the most visited news sites on the Web.
- Media and Communications Consultant with Time Inc., NBC and US West among others. While at Time Inc., Merrill served as consulting senior editor of Money, acting editor for Time Magazine Daily, and consulting editor for Time.
- Senior Vice President, Courtroom Television Network (Court TV), where he was one of the initial strategists responsible for the creation and launch of the channel.
- B.A. from Washington University.
Jerome Levy
Managing Partner
Jerome has been with MESA since 2003, where he has spearheaded an array of investment banking, strategy and valuation engagements for companies throughout the media space. His particular focus is on intellectual property stemming from entertainment content and distribution, including recorded music, music publishing, film, television and theatrical productions. He has developed a network of specialized investors and clients that bridges the gap between financial and strategic players in the media and entertainment space.
- Compass Partners, a leading M&A advisory boutique, where he represented clients in music publishing, educational publishing, cable television and post-production. Jerome worked on structuring transactions between financial institutions and clients including EMI and McGraw-Hill.
- Business Development at Canal Plus, a division of Vivendi Universal, responsible for managing acquisitions in the fields of video, music publishing and production. Vivendi Universal is one of Europe's largest media companies with holdings in television production, film and music.
- Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs International in London, where he worked on mergers and acquisitions, U.S. listings of European companies and privatizations.
- M.B.A. from The Wharton School of Business; B.A. from Northwestern University.
Mark Patricof
Managing Partner
Mark is an expert on all types of entertainment industry transactions, advising a wide range of leading traditional and digital content and distribution companies.
- Co-founder and CEO of <kpe>, a renowned provider of digital solutions for media and entertainment companies. <kpe> guided some of the biggest names in the industry, including CBS, Sony and Viacom, on the development of their earliest digital initiatives. In partnership with Grey Advertising, the Endeavor Agency (now WME) and Wasserstein Perella, <kpe> also managed an early stage venture fund that invested in over 20 digital media companies.
- Former Head of Business Affairs for The Voyager Company, a pioneering multimedia publishing company.
- Began career at Creative Artists Agency.
- Former Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award finalist.
- Member of the Board of Directors of Rockwell Group, New York Cruise Lines, and serves as Chairman of the Board of New Heights.
- B.A. from Emory University.
Brian Richards
Managing Partner
Brian has been with MESA since 2003, where he has led a broad range of investment banking, strategy and valuation engagements for companies across all segments of the media and entertainment industries. Brian has expertise within a number of traditional and digital media sectors, including music publishing, film, online media, digital content production and distribution, stock photography, consumer and business publishing, and television production.
- Strategy Consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and then with MESA. Brian focused on engagements for media and entertainment companies including Nickelodeon, Elsevier, Reed Business, National Geographic, BMG Music, Paramount Parks, Lexis Nexis, Harry Fox, MusicNet and the World Economic Forum.
- Founder and CEO of The Movies Magazine, the first magazine of newsstand quality distributed in movie theaters nationwide, where he managed all aspects of the business including sales, finance, distribution and editorial.
- M.B.A. from The Wharton School of Business; J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School; B.A. from Tufts University.
Daniel J. Gossels
Managing Director
Daniel joined MESA in 2009 and is responsible for providing merger and acquisition advisory and capital raising services to growth companies in the digital media industries.
- Principal in the media practice and sector head for online entertainment, games, publishing and social media at Montgomery & Co., where his M&A clients included Club Penguin, DailyCandy, UGO, Grouper, iFilm, ITtoolbox and eCRUSH. Private placements included Realtime Worlds, WildTangent and Reactrix.
- President and Chief Operating Officer of Hypnotic (Enigma Media, Inc.), where he played a central role in building the company from a start-up into a leading digital media, film and television company. Hypnotic's credits included: The OC, The Bourne Identity and Cry Wolf.
- Investment banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation (DLJ), where his media clients included Charter Communications and Qwest Communications.
- Investment banker at Bankers Trust/BT Securities Corporation, where he worked in the corporate capital markets and asset finance groups in New York and Hong Kong.
- M.B.A. from Columbia Business School; B.A. from Brown University.
Michael W. Josephs
Managing Director
- Director in the Media & Telecom Group at Credit Suisse, where he was responsible for relationship management, business development and transaction execution across a wide variety of sectors including music, education, cable, newspapers, cable networks, entertainment, publishing, new media and fixed satellite services. He completed corporate finance and M&A transactions for clients including Intelsat, Univision, WideOpenWest, McClatchy, Cambium Learning, Cablevision, Liberty Media, Atlantic Broadband, Delta Education, ABRY Partners, Apollo, Madison Dearborn Partners, Apax, Avista Capital and The Wicks Group.
- Seven years in Merrill Lynch's Global Media Group, where he executed transactions on behalf of clients including Liberty Media, Viacom, Cox Communications, Time Warner, Canal Plus, Reader's Digest, Thomson and Warner Music Group.
- B.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
Roderick "Roddy" Moon
Managing Director
Roderick "Roddy" Moon is responsible for providing merger and acquisition advisory and capital raising services to growth companies in the digital media industry. Roddy has over 14 years in investment banking and private equity and over 8 years of continuous coverage of the Internet, online marketing services, e-commerce and mobile sectors.
- Led the Digital Media & Internet practice on the east coast for Jefferies & Company. Representative clients included Bankrate, Collective, e-Rewards and Yahoo!.
- Vice President at Allen & Company where he was responsible for over $3 billion of M&A and private placement transactions in traditional and digital media, including transactions with Providence Equity, 1-800-Flowers, InterActive Corp, Liberty Media and NewsCorp.
- Private equity investor at GE Equity, the private equity arm of GE Capital and TenX Capital, a Cerberus-affiliated technology fund. Also, an investment banker at Merrill Lynch and Citicorp Securities.
- One of the first employees at a start-up company in the media/recruiting services sector, Crimson & Brown, which was successfully sold to Kaplan, a division of The Washington Post.
- M.B.A. from The Wharton School of Business; A.B. from Harvard University.
Isaac Palmer
Managing Director
Isaac is one of the leading experts on film and television transactions and is responsible for leading MESA's office in Los Angeles, where he spearheads our Hollywood practice.
- Managing Director at Fortress Investment Group, where he was responsible for the firm's media and entertainment investments.
- Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Paramount Pictures, where he was responsible for structured film finance, including Melrose Investors, LLC, the first major studio slate investment.
- Head of Business Affairs at Ogden Entertainment in New York.
- M.B.A. from The Wharton School of Business; J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; B.A. from Columbia University.
Mark Wasserberger
Managing Director
- Managing Director in the media practice at Montgomery & Co., where he managed the company's New York investment banking office and led the firm's efforts in the advertising and marketing services sector. He advised on a wide range of transactions including public and private offerings of debt and equity, strategic mergers and acquisitions, and corporate partnering advisory work.
- Investment banker with The Blackstone Group and with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
- M.B.A./M.I.A. from Columbia Business School/Columbia School of International and Public Affairs; B.S. from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
Marni Wieshofer
Managing Director
- Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Mergers & Acquisitions and Chief Financial Officer at Media Rights Capital, where she was responsible for identifying and developing new entertainment ventures and strategic acquisitions for the company as well as corporate finance, including structuring a $340MM JPMorgan-led revolving credit facility in 2008 and its renewal in 2011, structuring a film output arrangement with Universal Pictures and leading and managing all financial reporting and analysis.
- Executive Vice President, Corporate Development at Lionsgate Entertainment, where she oversaw all facets of the company’s mergers, acquisitions and other strategic financial initiatives including the acquisitions and integration of Trimark Pictures, Artisan Entertainment, Redbus Films Distribution U.K., Debmar Mercury, Break.com, Roadside Attractions and Mandate Pictures as well as the sale of Lionsgate Studios and the Canadian distribution business.
- Chief Financial Officer at Lionsgate Entertainment, where she was responsible for all aspects of finance and accounting, treasury and tax management and helped structure, negotiate and close several debt financings and equity offerings.
- Vice President of Finance at Alliance Communications Corporation, where she was a member of the deal team that facilitated the Alliance Atlantis merger, took Alliance public in the United States and orchestrated several acquisitions, debt and warrant offerings.
- Principal at Coopers & Lybrand Chartered Accountants in Toronto, Canada.
- M.B.A. from the University of Toronto; B.A. from the University of Western Ontario.
Gee M. Leung
Director
- Principal at Inverness Advisors, where he led the firm's efforts in the Digital Media sector.
- Vice President at Montgomery & Co., where he was a part of the Media Team. While at Montgomery, Gee led execution on financing and M&A transactions for leading digital media companies including KickApps, Meebo, Move Networks and Sportvision.
- M&A banker at Friedman Billings Ramsey, advising companies across the technology and media industries.
- Corporate Finance banker at Citigroup in its broader technology practice.
- B.A. from University of California Berkeley.
Elliott Mandelbaum
Vice President
- Analyst in the Technology, Media and Telecom banking group at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he advised media and entertainment companies on their financing needs with a particular focus on structured finance markets, originating securities and loans collateralized by media and entertainment assets. He was also very active in the group's film finance initiatives, arranging slate financings on behalf of film studios and independent production entities.
- B.S. from The Johns Hopkins University.
Andrew Montgomery
Vice President
- Analyst in the Media & Communications Group at Merrill Lynch, where he covered a wide variety of sectors including education, entertainment, telecommunications, publishing, mobile, new media and wireless infrastructure. He completed corporate finance and M&A transactions for clients including National Cinemedia, Verizon, Cinemark, NextG Networks, Kaplan, Madison Dearborn Partners, Quadrangle and Providence Equity Partners.
- B.A. from Georgetown University.
Jeremy Snepar
Vice President
- M&A/Restructuring at Lehman Brothers, where he advised distressed companies on corporate finance decisions.
- Vice President of Business Development at the New York Film Academy, a film and acting school based in New York. Responsibilities included overseeing traditional and digital marketing campaigns and establishing partnerships with leading media companies.
- Independent film producer with experience in feature and short films, commercials and music videos.
- B.A. from Cornell University.
Jacob Brody
Head of Business & Community Development
- Co-founder and Chairman of Standard Start, a non-profit providing free standardized legal documents and educational resources to startup businesses.
- Mentor for the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Incubator.
- Writer for the blog VentureBeat, where he covered startups, venture capital, digital media, technology and public policy
- B.A. from Hunter College.
Alissa Ananieva
Associate
- Analyst at Merrill Lynch in London, where she worked on corporate finance and M&A projects for EMEA corporations and private equity clients including AXA Private Equity and the Carlyle Group.
- M.S. ESCP Europe, Paris, France.
Miguel Burger-Calderon
Analyst
- Analyst at MESA, where his responsibilities include industry research, financial analysis, valuation and modeling for music, radio and digital media clients.
- B.A. from Bentley University.
Ted Nguyen
Analyst
- Analyst with MESA, where his responsibilities include industry research, financial analysis, valuation and modeling for a broad range of film, publishing and digital media clients.
- B.A. from Columbia University.
Lisa Barbieri-Pigott
Finance Director
- Senior Staff Accountant at La Sala C.P.A., where she managed a broad spectrum of client accounts and specialized in the formation of corporate organizations; individual, partnership, trust and corporate tax returns; accounting; auditing; tax notice resolution; tax planning and the preparation of financial statements.
- B.B.A. in accounting from Dowling College; A.A.S. from Suffolk Community College.
Yumi Kim
Operations Director
- Business development at Tribeca Enterprises, the umbrella company of the Tribeca Film Festival and Tribeca Cinemas, where she worked on new business initiatives with sponsors and partners including American Express, GM and Amazon.com.
- International development at the Museum of Television & Radio, now the Paley Center for Media, in New York City, where she brought in new corporate international board members and donors from around the world including NDTV (India) and TV Asahi (Japan).
- M.A. in International Economics and International Relations from The Johns Hopkins University; B.A. from Princeton University.
Robert B. Machinist
Senior Advisor
Robert ("Bob") has extensive experience both as a principal investor/operator as well as an owner-operator of diversified investment banking operations. He also runs a private family investment company whose activities range from the Collectors Car Garage to a number of real estate development businesses.
- Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking for the Bank of New York (BNY) and its Capital Markets division, where he was responsible for M&A and all private placement activities. Bob coordinated BNY's direct investment activities with its investment banking functions, including interaction with numerous investment funds for which the bank was a principal investor. Bob was also a member of the BNY Commitment Committee and the BNY Capital Markets, Inc. Board of Directors.
- President and a Principal Founder of Patricof & Co. Capital Corp. and its successor companies, where he was responsible for and a principal capital backer of the development of the firm and its investment banking business. Bob remains a general partner of the historic domestic Patricof investment funds and a special general partner of several of the international Apax funds.
- Managing Director and co-CEO of Midland Capital Corporation (MCC), a publicly listed diversified small business investment company with holdings in aerospace, defense, energy and financial services.
- B.A. from Vassar College.
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Merrill Brown
Senior Advisor
- Founder and Principal of MMB Media LLC, a management and strategy consulting company that provides clients with corporate, editorial and program development business analysis and marketing services; Partner with Propeller LLC, a New York consultancy.
- Senior Vice President, RealNetworks' RealOne Services, where he was responsible for all of their programming business. During his tenure, RealOne grew to over 1M paid subscribers.
- First Editor-in-Chief of MSNBC.com. During his leadership, the company became one of the most visited news sites on the Web.
- Media and Communications Consultant with Time Inc., NBC and US West among others. While at Time Inc., Merrill served as consulting senior editor of Money, acting editor for Time Magazine Daily, and consulting editor for Time.
- Senior Vice President, Courtroom Television Network (Court TV), where he was one of the initial strategists responsible for the creation and launch of the channel.
- B.A. from Washington University.