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R. K. (Ken) Honeyman, President and CEO, started his investment industry career as a licensed Registered Representative and Principal of several broker/dealers with offices on Wall Street, Denver and Tampa, Florida. In the financial services industry he has accumulated thirty two years of experience.
In 1990, he successfully divested his brokerage interests and founded a private oil and gas exploration and production company, Can-Am Resources, Inc. The Company drilled thirty three oil and natural gas wells and constructed two natural gas pipelines in various prolific continental and offshore basins in the United States all financed with private equity. The company was positioned to become publicly traded to maximize shareholder value.
Mr. Honeyman then founded the publicly-traded oil and gas exploration company, Lakota Energy, Inc. (LAKO.BB). The ensuing drop in pricing in the oil markets in the mid 1990’s was an opportunity to utilize the public vehicle as an incubation device. Mr. Honeyman successfully entered the high technology sector, purchased two Internet Service Providers, (ISP’s), located in Houston, Texas, with the public vehicle and emerged as 2-Infinity.com, (TWIC.OB). The planned exit fortunately coincided with the company achieving superior multiples on the company’s stock price and the height of the “dot com” era and the exit proved a valuable and successful timing lesson for Mr. Honeyman and the shareholders of the Company.
In 2000, he founded NuQuest Inc., a business development firm engaged in assisting private companies to position themselves for short-term growth and long-term sustainability. Armed with a fund derived from the success of 2-Infinity.com, NuQuest set out to locate quality companies to invest in. The process proved time consuming, inefficient and costly. His vision of an automated, web based portal to bring the two sided marketplace of capital seekers and capital providers was born and the result, The Capital MatchPoint has proven to be a powerful, scalable tool that has a unlimited applications in disparate market spheres such as equities, real estate, charities, art, etc.
In 1993, teamed with Dave Dambro, Executive Vice President of Nuquest, the two successfully completed a merger/acquisition deal with Alaska Apollo Resources, APLOF (CAN) and Daugherty Petroleum, Inc. a natural gas and exploration service provider headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky. The two were instrumental in completing the listing of the publicly traded NGAS (NASDAQ) and promoted the early stage trading. With the successful completion the NGAS project, both continued along the path of venture capital financing.
Contact: Ken Honeyman via email at ken@capitalmatchpoint.com
Dave Dambro, Vice President began his business career in 1983 in the financial division of a Fortune 500 company. As a licensed Florida real estate professional, he joined A-Investments, Inc., of Tampa Florida in 1985 and participated in the development of real estate projects, syndications and investment properties.
Since 1986, as a licensed Series 7 registered representative, he worked for Wall Street and Denver-based brokerage firms. He later became a Series 24 securities principal and owner of several brokerage firms, including First American Equities, a 72 office national firm. Mr. Dambro participated directly in all aspects of finance including capital structuring, public and private financing and international placements for many companies and in syndication for many more. He was instrumental in the financing and subsequent NASDAQ listing of NGas, Inc. (NGAS), formerly Daugherty Petroleum, which he teamed with Ken Honeyman, CEO and President of NuQuest, Inc. to complete. Mr. Dambro also was instrumental in structuring, funding and the subsequent listing of Interactive Technologies Corp., (INTL), an early entry in internet-enabled content development, on the NASDAQ market. He also consulted, structured and participated in mergers and acquisitions for several OTC and exchange-traded companies.
He later formed a private venture capital syndicate specializing in startups and early to mid-stage technology companies including internet ISP’s and related services, with 5 offices nationwide. Mr. Dambro was a founding partner of a privately held hedge fund. He was also the founder and Managing Partner of Sunica Development, LLC, a Florida real estate development company, from 1999 to 2008.
Mr. Dambro specializes in early stage company financing and development and is continuing to pursue his interests in development and funding early to mid-stage companies through NuQuest, Inc. and The Capital MatchPoint since joining the NuQuest team in 2009.
Contact: Dave Dambro via email at dave@capitalmatchpoint.com
Vik Grover, Director, joined Source Capital Group in 2006 to focus on telecom and digital media investment banking. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Grover worked as managing director of the Communications Practice of Merriman Curhan Ford & Co., a specialty small-cap focused boutique firm. Before working as an investment banker, Mr. Grover was with Thomas Weisel Partners and Needham & Co. as a senior research analyst covering communications services, including international long-distance carriers, competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs), Internet service providers (ISPs), voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and Internet infrastructure.
Mr. Grover's other Wall Street experience includes positions as director of research at Kaufman Bros., a boutique technology and communications investment bank. He also worked in the research department of Sterne, Agee & Leach, in the institutional sales group of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, and as a buy-side analyst for a technology-oriented hedge fund.
Mr. Grover conducted his undergraduate studies at the University of California in San Diego, received a master's degree in finance from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
Contact: Vik Grover via email at vik@capitalmatchpoint.com
Rex Danford, Executive Vice Peresident, Corporate Development-Western US has 30 years experience as a management consultant, investment banker, and business executive including vice president and marketing director for a multi-billion dollar, interstate financial institution. As a senior consultant specializing in community banks and thrifts, he has performed management audits, strategic planning, executive compensation evaluation, interest rate risk management, organization restructuring, capital formation, loan operations audit, litigation support, and productivity improvement.
As an investment banker and advisor to development and emerging growth stage companies, Mr. Danford has negotiated acquisitions, financing and other business contracts. He is skilled at developing and leading presentations for the investment community, boards of directors, C-level management, and regulatory authorities. He has managed projects requiring resolution of complex technical and regulatory issues, arranged export financing, researched international markets, and advised foreign businesses on U. S. regulatory issues.
Mr. Danford earned his Bachelor of Science in Finance at Kansas State University and is a Vietnam-era veteran. He is president of a multi-million dollar foundation and has served as director for several companies in the in the finance, electronics, aviation, and real estate management companies.
Contact: Rex Danford via email at rex@capitalmatchpoint.com
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