Mark Casper

Chief Financial Officer @Capstone Partners

As the financial operations principal, navigate constant state of improvement post-merger, engaging with all business functions. Manage change and development, overseeing broad array of economic activities, including fundraising, reporting, controls, forecasting, modeling, and complex compliance. Negotiate contracts, driving precise contingency planning. Govern financial KPIs. Work closely with the CEO, COO, and President to drive corporate strategy. Selected Strategy Achievements: • Designed and implemented strategic move to single entity accounting operations across nine legal entities and twenty departments. Enabled scalability and efficiency in working capital, financial technology, and systems automation. • Led unification of three compensation models, optimizing banker to deal assignment model. Selected Mergers, Acquisitions, & Corporate Development Achievements: • Spearheaded financial, legal, and operational due diligence for merging two middle-market investment banks, creating 3x growth in business valuation within one year. • Directed successful post-merger integration of financial systems and teams in a highly regulated environment. • Drove debt and equity capital raises totaling $17M; led communication, coordination, and legal efforts. Selected Financial Operations & Liquidity Management Achievements: • Built ground-up internal controls and financial processes. Enabled rapid growth and scale. • Implemented Sage Intacct, dramatically improving insight into business dynamics and allow for multi-dimensional financial planning Selected Reporting & Compliance Achievements: • Achieved multiple “no exception” audits, ensuring broker-dealer operations comply with SEC/FINRA regulations. Selected Legal, Risk Management, & HR Achievements: • Developed legal opinion and white paper defining optimal business structure to satisfy FINRA and SEC requirements.