Mark R. Klausner, Managing Partner

Mark Klausner has worked on Wall Street for over 17 years in a variety of senior positions in investment banking and equity capital markets. For the first six years of his career, he worked as a generalist in investment banking at Smith Barney, Citibank and Merrill Lynch. In 1995, he accepted a position in the Health Care Investment Banking Group at Alex. Brown & Sons. In 1999, Mark joined the Equity Capital Markets Group to head Equity Origination for the Health Care sector. He was promoted to Managing Director in 2001. In 2003, he joined Signal Hill Capital, a boutique investment banking firm, as a Partner and Managing Director to head up their Health Care practice. In 2004, Mark was recruited to Wachovia Corporation as a Managing Director and Head of Equity Origination for the Health Care and Technology industries.

During his career, Mark has worked on over 100 capital raising and strategic advisory transactions with an aggregate value of over $20 billion. In particular, he has extensive experience in originating, structuring and executing public and private equity transactions and advising companies on capital markets issues. During his career, Mark has served on the firm’s Deal Marketing Committee, Screening Committee and Equity Commitment Committee.

Mark has experience in working with companies in all sectors of the Health Care industry having worked with issuers such as: Align Technologies, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, IDX Systems, Emageon, Array BioPharma, Urologix, Innovasive Devices, Pyrosequencing A.B., Respironics, Encysive Pharmaceuticals, Mannkind, United Therapeutics, Health Care REIT, Sunrise Assisted Living, Province Healthcare, Inspire Pharmaceuticals and Medcath.

Mark received his MBA from The Darden School and his BA in Economics and Computer Science from Colgate University. He lives in Baltimore, MD with his wife and four children.