Also, a founder of several public companies: AquaCare Systems, Inc., a start-up that completed several acquisitions prior and post its IPO on NASDAQ, thereafter a premium priced tender offer; TransAmerican Waste Industries, Inc., from start-up to IPO on NASDAQ and then acquired via merger in 1998 with USA Waste Industries, Inc. now Waste Management, Inc. on NYSE; Sparta Pharmaceuticals, Inc., from start-up to IPO on NASDAQ and was acquired in 1999 by SuperGen, Inc. on NASDAQ; and CTN Media Group, Inc., aka College Television Network, from start-up to IPO on NASDAQ and acquired in 2002 by MTV Networks, division of Viacom, Inc. on NYSE. He is the founder and Managing Partner of Abacos Ventures, LLC, and has been a Managing Director of Investment Banking firms in NYC including but not limited to the founding Chairman/CEO of NYC based Adelphia Capital, LLC, a former member firm, and Adelphia Holdings, LLC, and Adelphia Partners, LLC. For nearly 10 years at Adelphia he managed investment banking, and direct investments. He was an EVP, Partner and co-head of the NYC office of the investment-banking firm Bannon & Co., which was subsequently sold to the French bank Société Générale, which merged with Cowen & Company. Prior to Bannon, he was a Managing Director of the Corporate Finance Department and the Managing Director of the New Venture Group of D. H. Blair Investment Banking Corp. and its predecessor NYSE member firm. Prior to, he worked both in the Corporate Syndicate Department, and then as a Managing Director in the Corporate Finance Department of Muller & Company, Inc. a NYSE member firm.
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