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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$17.5M
  • Private
  • US
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Dawson James Securities is a full service investment firm with deep expertise in healthcare, biotechnology and technology with a staff of over 50 investment professionals ensures our clients stay ahead of the constant changes in the healthcare capital markets. From our widely-respected institutional research, investment banking and high net worth services to our personalized attention for individual accounts, we provide quality service for our clients. We take pride in the quality and depth of our professionals and encourage you to contact us so we can begin serving your financial needs today.

Chief Executive Officer
Robert D Keyser
Number of Employees 34
Contact Information

925 S Federal Hwy Fl 6

Boca Raton, Florida 33432

www.dawsonjames...

1 561 391 5555

NAICS Code Investment Advice: 523930

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Decision Makers

Name (plus bio) Position
Robert D Keyser Chief Executive Officer
Thomas W Hands Chief Operating Officer, Director of Compliance
William A Fox Chief Financial Officer
Brandon Ross Managing Director, Investment Banking
Bret Shapiro Managing Director, Syndicate
Joseph Balagot Senior Managing Director, Investment Banking
Richard Aulicino Senior Managing Director, Investment Banking
Scott Schalk Managing Director of Capital Markets
Albert J Poliak Co-Founder
David H. Weinstein Managing Partner, Investment Banking
Douglas Kaiser Managing Partner
Frank Salvatore Managing Partner
Kyle M Lauzon Director of Institutional Equity Sales
Stephen M Dunn Director of Life Sciences
John Putnam Senior Analyst
Marco M. Racca International Associate
Monique Maclaren Administrator, Syndicate, Investment Banking

Mr. Keyser has over 20 years of experience in all aspects of the securities industry having held various positions including Head of Investment Banking, Regional Sales Manager and Branch Manager. In addition, he has founded several private companies including Dawson James Securities. Mr. Keyser has held management positions with several securities firms with leadership positions in retail and institutional sales, operations, underwriting & syndication, financial compliance and all general brokerage services. Mr. Keyser has been involved in raising capital for healthcare, biotechnology and technology clients such as Sontra Medical, Neurocrine Biosciences, Incyte Pharmaceuticals, Guilford Pharmaceuticals, Laservision, Epoch Biosciences, Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Sciclone Pharmaceuticals, Medical Innovations, DNA Plant, Biotech General, Texas Biotechnology, LaJolla Pharmaceuticals, LXR Biotechnology, Digital Biometrics, Electronic Clearing House, Total Research, Eastern Environmental, SOI Industries and Magnetech Industries.

Organization Position Status
Dawson James Securities, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Current
Dawson James Securities, Inc. President Current
Dawson James Securities, Inc. Founder Former
Dawson James Securities, Inc. Regional Sales Manager Former
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. Former
Guilford Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Former
Echo Therapeutics, Inc. Former

Mr. Hands started his securities industry career in 1982 with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith. Since that time he has held a variety of key positions within the securities industry including Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President, Chief Supervisory Officer, Financial Operations Principal, Municipal Securities Principal, Branch Manager, Senior Registered Options Principal and Director of Compliance. Mr. Hands has extensive experience in all aspects of the securities industry, with a concentration in regulatory compliance implementation and oversight.

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Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Former

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FINRA Former
Cleveland State University Masters of Accountancy and Financial Information Systems Former
University of Florida Bachelors of Science Former

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Dawson James Securities, Inc. Managing Director, Investment Banking Current
Maxim Group, LLC Managing Director of Investment Banking Former
Barington Capital Group LP Managing Director Former
Barington Capital Group LP Partner Former
Northeastern University B.S. In Electrical Engineering Former

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Dawson James Securities, Inc. Managing Director, Syndicate Current

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Dawson James Securities, Inc. Senior Managing Director, Investment Banking Current

Mr. Aulicino manages the Investment Banking department's day-to-day operations. Over the past twenty years, Mr. Aulicino has recapitalized, structured, and led equity investments of upwards of $2 billion in over 150 small to medium size growth oriented businesses. He served as Executive VP and Director of Barington Capital Group, L.P. which he co-founded in 1991. His responsibilities ranged from public and private financing transactions to general financial advisory for mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and recapitalization as well as overall direction of sales and trading for the firm. Mr. Aulicino has held Management and Consulting positions for several Wall Street firms including Robb Peck McCooey and Ladenburg Thalmann

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Dawson James Securities, Inc. Senior Managing Director, Investment Banking Current

Prior to his current assignment heading Capital Markets, Mr. Schalk was Director of Institutional sales. In his present position as Managing Director of Capital Markets, Mr. Schalk has lead many capital raises in the life sciences area for Dawson James. His duties also include planning, organizing, and executing road shows both in the United States as well as Europe. Mr. Schalk began his career in New York City and over the last fifteen years has gained experience in the financial services and investment banking areas. He has experience with many investment vehicles including, IPO's, Secondary's, PIPE's, Registered Directs, and equity lines. Mr. Schalk attends the BIO CEO conference in New York City annually, the BIO Investor conference in San Francisco annually, and attends the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) conference each year.

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Capital Markets Managing Director Current
Dawson James Securities, Inc. Managing Director of Capital Markets Current

Mr. Poliak has over 20 years of experience in the securities industry holding various management positions including President and Chief Executive Officer, Head of Trading, Regional Sales Manager, Branch Manager and Chief Compliance Officer. Mr. Poliak is a co-founder of Dawson James Securities. Mr. Poliak has been responsible for overseeing all daily activities of several brokerage firms including trading, market making, compliance, operations, underwriting & syndication, financial compliance and all general brokerage services.

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Dawson James Securities, Inc. Co-Founder Current
Dawson James Securities, Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Former
Dawson James Securities, Inc. Chief Compliance Officer Former
Dawson James Securities, Inc. Branch Manager Former

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Dawson James Securities, Inc. Managing Partner, Investment Banking Current
National Securities Corporation Director of Research Former
University of Maryland Masters of Public Policy Former

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Dawson James Securities, Inc. Managing Partner Current

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Dawson James Securities, Inc. Managing Partner Current

Mr. Lauzon began his career in the financial services industry in New York City where he successfully completed the training program of a major firm and grew his business to $10MM in his first year. Based upon his success and work ethic, Mr. Lauzon was invited to join two principals of the firm in a new arena, Venture Capital. In the years following, Mr. Lauzon achieved significant success in this area, including taking a leading role in assisting two highly desirable early stage telecom companies to secure multi-million dollar funding. Prior to joining Dawson James Securities Mr. Lauzon was the Director of Institutional Equity Sales for Sterling Financial Group where he was responsible for overseeing 8 institutional brokers and was also responsible for recruiting and growing Sterling's Institutional Equity Sales Desk.

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Sterling Financial Investment Group, Inc. Sales Representative Former
Sterling Financial Group, Inc. Director of Institutional Equity Sales Former

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Deep Think President Current
Growth Advisors Senior Managing Director Current
Dawson James Securities, Inc. Director of Life Sciences Current
Bioflorida, Inc. Member Current
Association for Investment Management and Research Member Current
Bioflorida, Inc. Board of Directors Current
Spectrapath Technologies, Inc Outside Director, Business Development, Board Member Current
Venture Fund Management, LLC Board of Directors Current
Growth Advisors Senior Managing Partner Former
St. Jude Medical, Inc. Former
Coulter and Company Former

Mr. John Putnam is a Senior Analyst at Dawson James Securities following the medical device industry. Prior to joining Dawson James in September of 2006, Mr. Putnam was a Senior Vice President at Stanford Group Company. He joined Stanford Group Company in May 2004 as a senior healthcare analyst after having been a principle and founder of Belmont Harbor Capital, a boutique investment research and merchant bank in Chicago, Illinois, established in early 2002. Mr. Putnam covers the Medical Devices and Technology industry as he has done for more than 30 years. During his tenure as a medical device analyst, he has served in a similar capacity at such firms as Smith Barney, Wellington Management, L.F. Rothschild, Alex Brown & Sons, Adams, Harkness & Hill, and Gruntal. As an analyst for the past three decades, Mr. Putnam has been responsible for the technology, fundamental, regulatory and reimbursement research of the medical device industry. He spent several years in Washington D.C., focusing on regulatory and reimbursement issues impacting the medical device industry. Mr. Putnam has extensive knowledge of many segments of the medical device and technology industry including cardiovascular, orthopedics, diagnostics, and urology. He was the first analysts on Wall Street to identify Women's Health as an investment opportunity. Mr. Putnam has a strong financial background and actually enjoys reading and analyzing financial statements and performing due diligence. Prior to changes in the institutional investment banking business which are now in place, he was intensely involved in investment banking assignments, having participated in more than 20 such transactions. In addition to strong writing and personal communications skills, Mr. Putnam has also developed a proprietary research methodology that evaluates the competitive position of companies participating in a particular industry segment by analyzing their intellectual property as embodied in a company's patent portfolio. This methodology can be used to perform strategic planning and business development. It identifies each company's relative competitive position within a technology and can identify those companies that are either active or have become inactive in research and development in that specific technology. From a business development perspective it can also identify a patent portfolio that may no longer be relevant to its holder but that may be an opportunity for another company. Mr. Putnam holds an MBA from The George Washington University and a BA from Baldwin-Wallace College. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society. Mr. Putnam has been involved in raising funds for several charitable organizations including Deborah's Place, a women's shelter in Chicago, the Farm Workers of Palm Beach County, and Old School Square and the Public Library in Delray Beach, Florida.

Organization Position Status
Dawson James Securities, Inc. Senior Analyst Current
Stanford Group Company Senior Vice President Former
Belmont Harbor Capital Founder Former
Stanford Group Company Founder Former
Stanford Group Company Senior Healthcare Analyst Former
Belmont Harbor Capital Senior Healthcare Analyst Former
Canaccord Adams Inc. Former
Wellington Management Company, LLP Former
Alex. Brown & Sons Incorporated Former
Smith Barney Former
Gruntal & Co. Former
The George Washington University MBA Former
Baldwin-Wallace College BA Former

Mr. Racca has 20 years of experience in the financial industry. He has a broad experience on Wall Street having covered different roles on both the Sell and the Buy side of the street starting in Institutional Equity Sales for a prestigious investment bank in New York from the late 80's to the early 90's, he has then been a Trader for a London based Hedge Fund and a Quantitative Analyst for a New York based Hedge Fund.

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Dawson James Securities, Inc. International Associate Current

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Dawson James Securities, Inc. Administrator, Syndicate, Investment Banking Current
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