Michael Jacks is Head of Private Equity with responsibility for all private capital raising transactions. He has been working in capital markets and investment banking for the past twenty years. He has been responsible for the origination, evaluation, structuring and execution of over ninety transactions, aggregating in excess of $1,000,000,000 for micro, small and midcap growth companies. He has extensive long standing relationships with Hedge Fund, Mutual Fund, Venture Capital and Private Equity communities. He has sell side experience with Paine Webber, Kidder Peabody, and Bear Stearns. He was co-head of Investment Banking at the Shemano Group, a very successful private placement boutique. He graduated from Indiana University with a B.S. in Biological Sciences. Mr. Jacks earned an M.B.A. from Butler University.