Mr. Crowe is the President of Advanced Equities, Inc. and brings 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. He spent nine years at LaSalle Street Securities, LLC where he co-founded the Capital Markets Group. Prior to LaSalle, Mr. Crowe was Senior Vice President for Madison Securities focusing on Institutional Sales.
Mr. Rogers joined First Allied Securities/Advanced Equities, Inc. in February 2006. Shawn previously was Vice President of Investments in the retail brokerage channel of Citigroup. He has 10 years experience in the financial services industry, serving retail and institutional clients, including gaining extensive knowledge of alternative investments, private placements, and shareholder communications. He was a co-founder of Celeritas Group, where his primary focus was consulting public and private companies on effective shareholder communication strategies. He also served as Vice President of Corporate Communications for CellPoint, Inc., a publicly traded global telecommunications company based in Sweden, where his role included overseeing worldwide marketing and investor relations. Shawn graduated with a B.A. from the University of Illinois and served in both the United States Marine Corps and the Illinois National Guard.
Mark Finckle joined AEI with more than 10 years of investment banking industry experience. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Finckle served as a principal in the Media, Internet & Communications Investment Banking Division of Thomas Weisel Partners in New York. Prior to that, Mr. Finckle was a member of the telecommunications investment banking teams at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. and Paine Webber. Mr. Finckle also has held positions at Ameritech and Coopers & Lybrand. Mr. Finckle holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Iowa and an MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Mr. Grudzinski is responsible for AEI’s institutional investor relationships, including fund-of-funds, sovereign and strategic funds, foreign finders and other non-retail investors. Before he joined AEI, Mr. Grudzinski was the Senior Vice President of Capital Markets for GK Development, Inc., a $500 million value-added owner and redeveloper of retail properties. In this role, he was responsible for attracting and structuring institutional, retail and individual investments for the firm’s various private real estate funds and associated acquisitions. Prior to his joining GK Development, Mr. Grudzinski was the President of InvestLinc Capital Services and InvestLinc Securities – the merchant banking and broker-dealer divisions of this boutique financial services firm. In this role, Mr. Grudzinski oversaw the syndication of over $100 million of retail funds and private equity investments across six private funds and more than a dozen structured financings for emerging growth companies. Prior to joining InvestLinc, Mr. Grudzinski served as a Principal in the Chicago offices of two strategic consulting firms – Diamond Technology Partners and Kuczmarski & Associates -- and as a Senior Vice President and member of the founding management team of DigitalWork.com – a Draper Fisher Jurvetson-backed provider of online small business services. Mr. Grudzinski is a High Honors graduate of the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and acts as a guest lecturer at both Kellogg and the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. Randy is also a graduate of DePauw University and the London School of Economics – earning his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics. Mr. Grudzinski is a NASD/FINRA registered representative with Series 22, 24, 28, 62 and 63 designations.
Mr. Schmidt brings more than 17 years of corporate finance and securities law experience to AEI. Previously, Mr. Schmidt was Of Counsel with the Pedersen & Houpt law firm in Chicago. Prior to that, he was a partner and co-chairman of the Corporate and Securities Group at the law firm of O'Hagan, Smith & Amundsen. Mr. Schmidt is the former chairman of the Chicago Bar Association Subcommittee on Mergers & Acquisitions and is a member of the American Bar Association’s Securities Law Committee. He graduated with honors from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and received his law degree, cum laude, from the Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where he was a senior member of the Loyola Law Review.
Mr. Marderosian joined Advanced Equities in April of 2004. Prior to joining the firm, he worked at CIBC Oppenheimer focusing on institutional sales in the EMEA region. Mr. Marderosian brings extensive knowledge of both the private and public markets to the Independent Advisor Channel and spearheaded the Advanced Equities Private Equity Certification Program. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from Indiana University.
Mr. McDonnell has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. Mr. McDonnell founded McDonnell, Inc. in 1985 and served as President and CEO until 2006. McDonnell, Inc. was a full-service broker/dealer and a member firm of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Prior to that, he was SVP/International Arbitrage with Drexel Burnham Lambert. Mr. McDonnell holds a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University.