ROBERT W. WIEN
President & CEO

Robert W. Wien, BA, MBA, JD, is a seasoned investment banker with more than three decades of experience as a senior advisor to companies, managers and owners. He has deep working and personal relationships in the business, financial and legal communities internationally, and has initiated and successfully completed hundreds of transactions and advisory engagements involving public and private companies across a broad array of industries, including construction and building products, real estate, energy and alternative energy, manufacturing, retail and consumer products, healthcare and biosciences and technology. Consistent with the founding philosophy of Mid-Market Securities, Mr. Wien brings large firm expertise and domestic and international processing capabilities to the middle market.

Mr. Wien is an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School where he teaches "Private Capital Markets: Valuation, Capitalization and Transfer of Private Business Interests."

Mr. Wien began his investment-banking career with Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., after practicing law with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, LLP. At Dean Witter he was Regional Director of Mergers and Acquisitions for the Southwest region for ten years and co-founder of the Restructuring Group. He was a Director in the Corporate Finance and the Real Estate Groups at Coopers & Lybrand, LLP and thereafter joined Josephthal & Co., Inc. where he was a Director of Mergers & Acquisitions and then Director of Investment Banking. Immediately prior to the formation and the registration of Mid-Market Securities as a FINRA registered broker dealer, he was EVP, Head of Investment Banking at vFinance Investments, Inc. Prior to joining Skadden Arps, Mr. Wien was a Staff Attorney for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and a law clerk to Hon. Vincent L. Broderick, United States District Court, Southern District of New York.

Mr. Wien received his Master of Business Administration degree from New York University’s Stern School of Business with distinction in the CPA Professional Program, his law degree from New York Law School, cum laude and his Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Buffalo.    

Mr. Wien can be contacted at (212) 400-4048, fax (646) 292-5141,
mobile (914) 907-9528 or rwwien@mid-marketsecurities.com

DR. JOSEPH D. BEN-DAK
Of Counsel: Strategy, International Technology

Dr Joseph D. Ben-Dak has more than thirty years of experience as a consultant, financial and strategic counselor and advisor, to Governments, Banks, Public and Private Companies, Not-for-Profits and senior executives, managers and policy makers around the world.

Dr. Ben-Dak’s current client list includes Italian, Japanese and Korean groups organizing intelligence systems to guide leadership in global security policy contexts. He has helped define opportunities that include original systems of unobtrusive intervention in product development, measurement of community innovation and undersea resource harvesting.

Dr. Ben-Dak recently completed work as Chairman of a Washington, DC task force evaluating government investments in critical technologies. He has developed computer solutions and support systems for DOD and HSD. He has accomplished similar tasks in programs for higher education, language proficiency and health delivery needs.

Serving the United Nations as the Principal Advisor, Science and Technology and Public Management, to the UN Secretary General, and the founder and Chief of the United Nations Global Technology Group, Dr. Ben-Dak has initiated and established successful technology and science businesses in numerous countries including most of OECD, Israel, Africa, China, Russia and the Arab World. He has had extensive administrative and academic licensing experience in institutions including Professorships at Haifa, Israel and Sao Paulo Universities, Visiting Senior Scholar, Papua New Guinea’s Institute for National Planning, and Visiting Professor at Seoul National University and Kyung Hee University. He was instrumental in the original programming of Korea's KAIST/KIST, and the earliest introduction of formative evaluation to Japan's MITI (now METI) and similar major Asian Institutions.

Dr Ben-Dak served as the Academic Director, Israel's Air Force School for Senior Officers. This program pioneered top personnel multitasking training of technology and management including preparation of first time ever curricula.

He was elected fellow of AAAS in Mathematics and Economics and won the US National Academy of Science Dissertation Award for Peace Studies and Sociology. Dr. Ben-Dak is a graduate of Hebrew University, Jerusalem in Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies. He also has Masters Degrees and PhD's in Methodology and Organizational Sociology and in the Program of Research on Conflict Resolution, all from the University of Michigan. He has done post-doctoral work in the Social Impact of Science Policy at Lund University, Sweden and Conflict Resolution at Oslo University, Norway and, in 1994, along with the President of Mongolia, jointly received the first honorary doctorates from the Technical University of Mongolia.

Dr. Ben-Dak is also involved in cultural exchanges and reconciliation foundations such as "Seeds for Peace" and "Foundation for Arab-Israeli Reconciliation, FAIR".
Dr. Ben-Dak can be contacted at jdbendak@mid-marketsecurities.com

BRADFORD C. BURKETT
Senior Managing Director

Mr. Burkett has more than 20 years of financial advisory, transactional and operating experience, primarily in the healthcare industry.   He is a recognized expert in healthcare finance, having consummated over 50 transactions in the space, including acquisitions, mergers, leases, public and private equity and debt financings as well as sale – leasebacks. 

Until 2009, Mr. Burkett was Head of Healthcare Investment Banking at Navigant Capital Advisors. Prior to joining Navigant, Mr. Burkett was the CEO of two healthcare companies in the healthcare services and technology sectors,  deNovis and Physician Weblink. Mr. Burkett also served as Senior Vice President Corporate Development at The Multicare Companies, a very successful long-term care owner operator which he helped grow from 34 to over 175 facilities in 10 states until its sale for $1.2 billion to Genesis Health Ventures. Mr. Burkett has also been Co-CEO of CareMatrix and a member of the Board of several companies including Prodigy Health Group.

Prior to assuming operating roles, Brad began his career and spent nearly a decade with the international law firm Kaye Scholer LLP in New York.  Mr. Burkett holds a JD from Rutgers School of Law and a BA from Rutgers College.  He is a member of the Bars of the States of New York and New Jersey.

Mr. Burkett can be contacted at (646) 484-4618, fax (646) 484-4616,
mobile (914) 772-2337 or bburkett@mid-marketsecurities.com

J.D. FRIEDLAND
Senior Managing Director

JD Friedland brings more than 15 years of experience initiating, structuring, negotiating and financing transactions and advisory engagements for public and private Healthcare companies in the U.S. and internationally.  The breadth of his clients includes the full panoply from medical devices, pharmaceuticals (OTC and prescription), healthcare services and distribution, from startups to mature companies.  His client list includes such prominent firms as Abbott Laboratories, Aetna, Fresenius and Pfizer.  Prior to joining Mid-Market Securities, Mr. Friedland founded Epsilon Securities where he continues to serve as CEO.  Previously, he was head of U.S. Healthcare for Rothschild Inc.  He has also held senior positions in the Healthcare Groups at Lazard Frères, Wasserstein Perella (later Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein) and Cowen & Company.

Mr. Friedland received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.

Mr. Friedland can be contacted at (212) 758-0196, fax (212) 242-8855, or JD@mid-marketsecurities.com

DOROTHY PRICE HILL
Senior Managing Director

Dorothy Price Hill has more than 18 years of experience in global financial services including investment banking, risk management and private placement advisory.  Her global practice includes publicly-listed and privately held companies within the financial, alternative investment, alternative energy, and technology sectors.  

 Ms Hill was a consultant with McKinsey & Co in Europe within the Financial Services practice following business school.  She then joined Goldman Sachs International where she spent nearly seven years in risk management and global client financing for Debt Capital Markets and Private Wealth Management. This included assignments in Tokyo, London and Frankfurt. Her work experience includes the Council on Foreign Relations and Siemens Corporation within Investor Relations as well as Finance. More recently, she has served on the Investment Committees of Zug, Switzerland-based Capital Dynamics and SV Investment Partners, a middle-market private equity fund.  

Ms Hill has been a member of the fundraising committees of Hedge Funds Care since 2003 and Mt. Sinai Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) since 2002. She
served as a NYC Chapter Co-Head of 85 Broads from 2002  through 2009, helping to build the Goldman Sachs alumnae network to more than 21,000 members globally.

Ms Hill received her Master of Business Administration from New York University’s Stern School of Business with a double major in Finance and Information Technology.  She holds a Bachelor Degree from Dartmouth College with a major in Government (International Relations) & German.   She is fluent in French and German.   

 Ms Hill can be contacted at (917) 887-3428, fax (212) 918-9380, or dhill@mid-marketsecurities.com

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 JOSEPH MONTERIO
Senior Managing Director

Brad J. Monterio brings more than twenty years of marketing, branding, global business development, fundraising, communications, media and public relations, and product management/development experience in financial services, accounting, legal, CleanTech and technology sectors.  He has counseled many US and international financial services companies, private equity/hedge funds, technology consortia, professional associations, standard setting bodies, credentialing organizations and professional services firms. He is an expert at helping organizations attract capital through integrated, comprehensive marketing and communications strategies. Mr. Monterio has particular specialty with start-up businesses and new product launches.      

Throughout his career, Mr. Monterio has managed domestic and international marketing, branding, public relations, advertising, fundraising, product management and product development programs.     

Mr. Monterio is Managing Director of CMH Partners LLC, a global placement agent that also provides ESG (environmental, social and governance) and XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) advisory services, strategic global partnering and business development services. He is also Managing Director of Colcomgroup, a financial media relations, strategic communications, marketing and branding firm. CMH Partners leverages the media relations and marketing expertise of Colcomgroup for alternative investment clients, including private equity funds and hedge funds.    

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., where he directed international sales and marketing programs for its high-end home furnishings and giftware collections.  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), and AccountAbility.  Mr. Monterio regularly speaks and writes on 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
Senior Managing Director

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.

Ms. Muraco holds a B.A. in finance from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.  

Ms Muraco can be contacted at (917) 903-2709, JMuraco@mid-marketsecurities.com

CHRISTOPHER D. WESTGATE
Managing Director

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.

Mr. Westgate can be contacted at (786) 220-2942, fax (786) 220-2932, mobile (305) 439-1315 or cwestgate@mid-marketsecurities.com

Aamir Mumtaz
Senior Consultant

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.

Mr. Mumtaz can be contacted at (212) 400-4050, fax (866) 892-3511, mobile (845) 988-7382, or amumtaz@mid-marketsecurities.com