Sentences with phrase «at equity work»

This episode of Walking the Talk takes an honest look at equity work — at the difficulties and the possibilities of creating systems that uplift the most vulnerable

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He previously worked at China Renaissance, a China - based investment bank, helping startups raise capital from venture capital and private equity firms.

Stengel is joined on stage by Doug Ellenoff, a corporate and securities attorney with a specialty in business transactions and corporate financing who has been actively involved in working with federal government agencies as the rules are being rewritten, and Pelli Wang (on the right end of the couch), the venture director at SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform and early - stage VC fund.

Founder Zach Goldstein, an investment banker who formerly worked at JPMorgan and a private equity firm in Chicago, was frustrated with the quality of other lounge clothes on the market that he didn't feel comfortable wearing outside his house.

Schwartz got his start in finance at investment bank Bear Stearns, working under private equity legend Jerome Kohlberg.

«Sarah's taking advantage of a unique confluence of events, building the relationships that start - ups today need to grow as fast as they can,» says Kevin Armitage, senior vice-president at FAC / Equities, the investment - banking division of First Albany Corp., which has worked with Gerdes during the past few years.

CASPERSEN and Park Hill Group were working on behalf of Firm - 1 to solicit investors for the loan, but, at some point after Firm - 1 agreed to take the loan, it transpired that Firm - 1 did not need the loan in order to purchase the secondary private equity interests.

«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

«No matter what they do in their careers — go off to a private equity firm, to consulting, go work for a big company, be in the marketing unit at Merck — they're almost certain to be involved in launching new businesses or new products, or working with people who are,» Eisenmann says.

Before joining private equity firm Capital Advisors as an executive vice president, she had worked at a couple of tech companies — including as CFO of General Magic, a spin - off from Apple (AAPL) that closed in 2002 — and in all of those positions her job was to obsess over quarterly results, meeting demands of investors.

The woman, who works at a company in eastern Tokyo, said she plans to invest more in stocks than in debt, with a focus on foreign equities including those from emerging markets.

James previously worked at H.I.G Capital, and Rowland was most recently at Providence Equity Partners.

As O'Malley says: «Even if the business doesn't work out, founders can still profit from their equity or, at a minimum, end up with a coveted job at a Facebook or a Groupon due to the rise of the acqui hire.»

Prior to this role he was an editor at Yahoo Finance, worked as an equity analyst at hedge funds and as an investment analyst at a fund of funds.

Previously, she worked on improving educational equity at organizations such as NewSchools Venture Fund, where she raised funds to support early - stage education entrepreneurs.

Canopy Growth Corp's (WEED.TO) Tweed Farms Inc subsidiary expects to spend at least C$ 25 million ($ 21 million) to upgrade the property, a flower farm it purchased for about C$ 9 million in cash and equity, with work including the installation of security cameras and fences due to start in October.

She and her husband, who worked at Starbucks for 15 years, used Bean Stock, a program that gives partners company stock as equity, to help buy a three - bedroom house when they moved from Los Angeles to Austin, Texas in 2006.

Ms. Beck worked in consulting right out of college in the mid-1990s, then studied at Harvard Business School and worked briefly in private equity.

Previously, he worked at Kendall Investments, a Cambridge, Massachusetts - based private equity fund - of - funds, where he evaluated, analyzed and monitored private equity portfolio investments.

I plan: 5 % — swing for the fences 10 % — save for big blue chip bargain buys that pop up throughout the year 10 % — VNQ, other than our primary residence, I have no exposure to RE, so this should help with that 15 % — VXUS, international index exposure 60 % — VTI, total stock market index (as I get older, I will be also adding BND or a bond fund, but at 32, I'm working on building equities!)

Prior to joining ValueAct Capital in January 2011, Mr. Hale was a Principal with The Parthenon Group, working in both the Boston and Mumbai offices of Parthenon's strategic consulting practice, as well as in an investment role at Parthenon's long - short public equity vehicle, Strategic Value Capital.

Her backstory of growing up in an African - American family of 10 children in inner - city Detroit is remarkably aligned with the foundation's mission of helping kids and families succeed in some of the poorest corners of the U.S. Among other things, under Tabron's leadership at Kellogg, the foundation has doubled down on its prescient — and bold — racial equity work.

During his time at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Murti worked as a sell - side equity research analyst covering the energy sector.

He also said his work at BlackBerry will «have nothing to do» with his role at private equity firm Silver Lake, where he serves as a senior adviser.

Prior to Intuit, Gus worked at Horsley Bridge Partners, a private equity fund - of - funds, as an Analyst.

Prior to the formation of Makena, Gus was an Associate Director of Private Assets at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation where he worked on private equity, real estate, and natural resources investments.

Jason joined NEP in 2006 after working at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) in their global industrial & services group where he participated in the origination and day - to - day execution of various investment banking transactions, including acquisitions and divestitures, public equity and debt financings, and private placements.

Jaime also worked as the controller at Geolo Capital, a private equity firm and prior to that, he was the controller at Sand Hill Capital, a venture debt fund that specializes in mezzanine financing.

Chris also worked as an investment banking analyst in the TMT group at Cowen and Company where he completed a number of M&A and equity transactions in the digital media and communications equipment sectors.

«We are wary of the current level of management turnover at LULU, as it could lead to instability at a time when the company is looking to drive its next leg of growth as it works toward its goal of becoming a $ 4B brand by 2020 (from ~ $ 2.6 B currently),» Randal Konik, an equity analyst at Jefferies, said.

Prior to Intuit, Sharma developed private equity and investment banking industry expertise while working at Great Hill Partners and Bear Stearns.

The laws of competition and competitive strategy are now very much at work within the private equity industry, and we can see the best funds putting their real endeavors behind that, not only so they've got a good story to tell at [the] time of next fundraising, but also to deliver the great returns that their investors are expecting.

Mr. Asper, working with New York investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and private equity firm Catalyst Capital Group, launched a rival bid at the last minute, but was turned down by on Ontario judge.

She most recently worked at Peters & Co. Limited as an Equity Research Associate, specializing in Oil & Gas.

These guys might find that their hedges don't work in the way that they planned or, at worst, give the portfolio return characteristics that mimic equity funds and other asset classes.

Prior to joining Alpine, Ramsey worked at Revolution Capital Group, a private equity firm focused on control transactions across a variety of industry verticals.

Prior to joining Silversmith in 2015, Marc worked as a Vice President at JMI and as an Associate at Morgan Stanley Private Equity.

Ten years ago, when I worked on the equity index derivatives desk at Lehman, we used to sit around and dream things up.

Shamit joined Guidepost in 2013 after having worked at both Great Hill Partners and Susquehanna Growth Equity.

Alex founded Skyview 13 years ago, prior to which he worked at Platinum Equity.

She previously worked as a Private Equity Investor at Emerging Capital Partners in Washington DC and at Reliant Equity in Chicago where she executed and managed buyout and growth capital investments across a wide range of sectors.

Prior to joining STMM, Ms. Gupte worked at Bloomberg LP as an equity associate covering the technology sector.

Prior to HP Palm, she worked as a founding Senior Associate at Elevation Partners, a $ 1.8 billion media and entertainment private equity firm, where she fell in love with the consumer Internet and mobile space.

Among its employees is Puerto Rican Julio A. Cabral - Corrada, a graduate of San Ignacio de Loyola Private School and Cornell University, who then worked at Morgan Stanley's Equity Trading.

A home equity loan works much like a HELOC, except that the loan is at a fixed interest rate, which means your monthly payments won't change.

Ahlborn assembled a team of volunteer engineers and scientists shortly after Musk put forth the idea, offering equity in the company instead of pay to those willing to put in at least 10 hours of work each week.

After working briefly at Warburg Pincus, the private equity firm that owned an equity stake in Mattel, and at Island Records, where he was director of corporate development, he joined Lafer Equity Investors, a New York hedge fund, where he learned the «craft» of risk arbitrage — betting on the outcome of mergers and acquisitions and other «event driven» opportunequity firm that owned an equity stake in Mattel, and at Island Records, where he was director of corporate development, he joined Lafer Equity Investors, a New York hedge fund, where he learned the «craft» of risk arbitrage — betting on the outcome of mergers and acquisitions and other «event driven» opportunequity stake in Mattel, and at Island Records, where he was director of corporate development, he joined Lafer Equity Investors, a New York hedge fund, where he learned the «craft» of risk arbitrage — betting on the outcome of mergers and acquisitions and other «event driven» opportunEquity Investors, a New York hedge fund, where he learned the «craft» of risk arbitrage — betting on the outcome of mergers and acquisitions and other «event driven» opportunities.

Most recently Mike worked at Northern Trust, where he was instrumental in the development of trading strategies and the firm's equity portfolio management technology platform.

Mr. Enyeart is the former director of quantitative research at Citigroup Asset Management and worked with equity market models and software development at BARRA, Inc..

Joseph G. MacDougall, CFA, is an investment officer and institutional equity portfolio manager at MFS Investment Management ® (MFS ®), working directly on the firm's mid and small cap value and large cap core equity portfolios.