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He began his Wall Street career after graduating law school at Emanuel and Company in 1984 as its Corporate Counsel and then, over the course of four years, eventually became the Director of Investment Banking. He then founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Global Capital Group, Inc. and Global Capital Securities, Inc., a publicly traded investment and merchant banking brokerage firm. Upon the sale of his interest, he then founded and served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of First Asset Management Inc. (FAM), a full service investment and merchant banking brokerage firm until September, 1998. FAM, since its inception in 1990, participated as the Managing, Co or Underwriter in over 100 public offerings and as the Exclusive or Participating Placement Agent in over 200 Private Placements and/or Bridge Loans, had over 400 Registered Representatives, 9 branch offices across the country and did over $1B in business. Mr. Lev, in conjunction with FAM’s corporate finance department, assisted in the coordination of the aforementioned investment banking activities. In early 1998, he founded Wellfleet. Mr. Lev was formally a Registered Representative of M.S. Farrell & Company, Inc., pursuant to Employment and Definitive Purchase Agreements in September, 1998 in which MSF acquired substantially all the assets of FAM for various considerations. In late 2008, Mr. Lev and the employees of Wellfleet became affiliated with Sandgrain Securities, Inc. (Sandgrain), a seventeen year old broker-dealer principally located in New York with four other branch offices as well. Sandgrain is a FINRA/SIPC regulated financial services and brokerage firm. Mr. Lev renders all of his money management, brokerage and investment banking related activities through them.
Prior to beginning his career on Wall Street, Mr. Lev practiced law at a New York based Law Firm and interned as a law and legislative clerk at the State Capital in Albany, New York for the current Speaker of the House, Assemblyman Sheldon Silver. He is a graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York and Boston University School of Law, is a member of the American Bar Association, hold a 7 & 63 Securities License, and serves on the Board of Directors of various non-profit organizations and a private Chinese based Company. | 