Mid-Market Securities

ROGER McDANIEL
Senior Managing Director

Roger McDaniel has more than twenty years of financing experience, primarily in energy finance and project finance. He specializes in strategic and financial advice to energy and other companies, with specific focuses on the acquisition and divestiture of assets and on raising both equity and debt capital for companies and projects in various stages of development. He brings his experience as a consultant to the US Department of Energy's Loan Guarantee Program Office, a senior project finance lender and advisor with WestLB, and a utility M&A and project finance advisor with New Harbor, after having begun his Wall Street career as an attorney with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, specializing in financings.

Mr. McDaniel has advised clients on financings using venture capital, private equity, private and public debt, tax-exempt bonds, leveraged leasing, limited partnerships, public stock offerings, interest rate hedging and gold loans, as well as asset and corporate M&A transactions. His clients have come from a number of industries, including ethanol, environmental resource recovery, regulated and unregulated power, transportation, water and wastewater infrastructure privatization, waste-to-energy, metals and mining, oil and gas, telecommunications, and space. Financings have ranged from a $10 million venture capital financing to a $1.4 billion independent power project financing.

Mr. McDaniel received a B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.

Mr. McDaniel can be contacted at (212) 400-4049, fax (914) 798-6698,
mobile (914) 953-7333 or mcdaniel@mid-marketsecurities.com

Brad J. Monterio brings more than 20 years of experience advising companies and their senior management and owners on global business and strategic development, including capital introductions and fundraising, management consulting, marketing, branding, communications and investor/media relations. He has niche expertise in financial services and financial technology sectors, including XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) technology; CleanTech and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)/Responsible Investing sectors; accounting services (i.e., companies that provide tax, audit, investment advisory, business valuation, forensic services) and accounting technologies. He has counseled US and international financial services companies, corporations, private equity/hedge funds, professional services firms and technology consortia, as well as professional associations, standard setting bodies, regulatory bodies and credentialing organizations that serve these same sectors. He uniquely integrates comprehensive fundraising, financial marketing and communications strategies to help organizations attract capital. Mr. Monterio has particular specialty with early stage and start-up businesses.

Mr. Monterio serves as Managing Director of CMH Partners LLC, a global investment banking advisory services firm specializing in capital introductions, capital fundraising and investor relations. He is also Managing Director of Colcomgroup, Inc., a global strategic management consulting and marketing services firm that helps organizations establish/grow market share, open new markets/channels, develop new revenue streams, and source strategic partners. CMH Partners leverages the media relations and financial marketing expertise of Colcomgroup for its investment banking clients.

Previously, Mr. Monterio has served in senior positions at Chase Manhattan Bank within International Private Banking and the Investment Products Group, as well as at Fitz and Floyd, Inc. He has also managed a proprietary marketing consulting firm.

He is a member of several professional, trade and community organizations, including the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), the Sustainability Working Group, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), AccountAbility, and the NY Tech Council. Mr. Monterio regularly speaks and writes on management, XBRL, ESG/sustainability, marketing and communications issues and is an award-winning artist and product designer.

Mr. Monterio received his Bachelor Degree from Dartmouth College with a major in English. He is fluent in French.

Mr. Monterio can be contacted at 646-256-5296 or bmonterio@mid-marketsecurities.com

Julie Christienne Muraco is a seasoned resource of first resort for public and private companies and fund groups seeking access to global capital sources as well as business operational insights and expertise in strategic planning, sales & marketing and corporate communications.

Prior to joining Mid-Market Securities, Ms. Muraco founded Praeditis Group LLC, a capital markets and corporate advisory firm, where she continues to serve as Managing Partner. Previously, she was a Senior Managing Director and Head of Global Capital Markets for The NASDAQ OMX Stock Market. She was responsible for strategy and client relations with corporate advisors, such as investment banks and financial sponsors, transitioning private companies to the public markets and built an international network.

Ms. Muraco spent more than 20 years on Wall Street as a Vice President with J.P. Morgan’s Cash Markets Division, based in New York, and as a Managing Director in the Capital Markets Division of Smith Barney, based in Chicago and earlier in Cleveland. She has extensive experience with institutional investment firms and advisors throughout the U.S., Canada and Asia, and has been involved with public company investments since 1980.

Ms. Muraco spent two years as Vice President, Investor Relations, for Archstone-Smith, a publicly traded REIT specializing in luxury high-rise apartments.

She serves on the Board of Directors of Americans for the Arts, Washington, D.C., the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing participation in the arts and is an Advisory Board Member of Genisys Group, a privately held company based in London, England. She is on the National Advisory Council of Springboard Enterprises, a venture catalyst firm for women owned businesses. She is also a member of the Urban Land Institute, New York Chapter.

Sheryl WuDunn brings a unique blend of investment advisory and project management skills, personal relationships around the world, and various industry knowledge to private companies seeking access to new capital or financial advisory services. She has particular expertise in mainstream and new media, with experience in financial services, energy and alternative energies, business restructuring and strategy development for small businesses. She has managed economic and financial coverage in China and East Asia, where she lived as a correspondent for The New York Times.

Previously, she worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where she was a vice president, in the role of investment advisor for private clients, in the firm's investment management division. She also worked as a commercial loan officer at Bankers Trust.

Her background includes several roles as both an executive and journalist at The New York Times, where she developed a deep and broad network of contacts across a wide range of industries. She ran the Times' coverage of international markets, energy, global technology and industry; she helped develop long and short-form news documentaries for The Times' digital cable TV channel; she held management roles in strategic planning and circulation at The Times; as a foreign correspondent for The Times in Tokyo and Beijing, she wrote about economics and finance, as well as political issues.

Ms. WuDunn was the first Asian-American to win a Pulitzer Prize in reporting, is a best-selling author, business executive and lecturer, and has strong ties to the philanthropic community. She recently co-authored Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a New York Times best-selling book, featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Colbert Report, Dateline NBC and many other network television shows.

With her husband, Nicholas D. Kristof, she has co-authored two other best-selling books about Asia: Thunder from the East and China Wakes. Ms. WuDunn won a Pulitzer Prize with her husband for covering China, along with the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement. She has also won other journalism prizes, including the George Polk Award and Overseas Press Club awards.

She graduated from Cornell University, where she is a member of the Board of Trustees, and is a member of the Board’s Finance Committee. She is a former member of the University's nine-member investment committee overseeing a $4 billion endowment. She earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an M.P.A. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.

Christopher D. Westgate, MBA, CBI, brings discipline, temperament and focus honed from more than eighteen years in Aviation, as an Aviation Officer, Captain and Pilot of Boeing 727’s, 737’s, 757’s and 767’s, Director of Operations, Director of Training and Aviation Finance Consultant.

Mr. Westgate couples formal academic training from a top MBA program with extensive experience as a Certified Business Intermediary advising small and mid-sized companies and their owners across a wide array of industries including but not limited to Aviation, Real Estate, Construction, Retail, Food Service, National and International Governments, Manufacturing, Consumer products and the Biological Sciences. He has significant experience with valuations, SBA and private sector financing, succession and strategic planning and buy-side and sell-side advisory. In addition Mr. Westgate has been a founder and participant in several startup businesses.

Prior to joining Mid-Market Securities, Mr. Westgate founded Westgate Group, LLC located in Miami Florida, a lower middle market mergers & acquisitions and commercial real estate practice where he continues to serve as CEO and President.

Mr. Westgate is a former US Navy Officer and Enlisted service member. He spent seven years in the U.S. Navy and served during the Gulf War. Mr. Westgate is fluent in Spanish and has extensive business and consulting experience in Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

He received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago School of Business, with concentrations in Economics, Finance and Strategic Management. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Salisbury University.

Aamir Mumtaz brings international experience and relationships to Governmental and Private Sector Information Technology clients. He is an entrepreneur, owner and builder of businesses, investor, consultant and advisor to public and private companies and their owners.

Mr. Mumtaz is a Certified Project Manager (CMP) by the Project Management Institute (“PMI”) (www.pmi.org), the dominant not-for-profit association for the project management profession. PMI is an international organization with more than half a million members and credential holders in over 170 countries. He has extensive experience in the field of Management, Business, Consulting and Information Technology. Beginning his career in the United Kingdom as a Systems Engineer with Electronic Data Systems he later worked for British Telecom, CGU/Aviva Plc and Lloyds of London holding a range of Technology, Management and Executive positions. Having formed three start-up companies during the last fifteen years, he is well versed in the process of leading and growing businesses. In 1996, Mr. Mumtaz launched a consulting services company Softex Systems, Ltd., where he formed partner relationships and achieved certified partner status with many leading software vendors. As the owner of Tax Service Franchises operating in New York City and Florida, he started and managed two operations with 125 staff and 30 separate service locations. Previously he had founded Next Education Limited, a provider of online training delivering learn-direct programs on behalf of the UK Department of Education and Skills.

With broad sector experience covering Financial Services (including Insurance and Reinsurance), Telecommunications, Technology, Consulting, Public Sector, Manufacturing, Education and Criminal Justice, Mr. Mumtaz is well diversified. His operating experience is at senior levels - VP Operations, CIO, and Board Member and his functional focus is Organizational Development, General Management, Operations, Strategic Planning, Software Development, Vendor Management and Project Management. His international perspective and connections are drawn from in depth on the ground work with companies throughout Europe, the Middle East, South Asia and more recently the U.S.

Mr. Mumtaz is a member of various Angel Networks in New York and Connecticut. His area of work includes analysis and evaluation of businesses to determine their viability as investments, the formulation of business strategy, and the implementation of operational improvements and restructuring initiatives. He also volunteers for the Project Management Institute to develop intellectual property and examination questions for their world wide credentials.

He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree with Honors in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Wales, United Kingdom. Born and raised in the United Kingdom, since 2003, Mr. Mumtaz has been living in Westchester, New York with his family.