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William Bradford "Brad" Smith II has served as an adviser to Stephen Brock since 2002 and chairs Public Company Management Corporation's Advisory Board.
Brad has more than 20 years experience as a capital market practitioner and financial service company officer, director or adviser.
Since July 1991, Brad has operated WBS&A Ltd., a management consulting firm that helps companies develop and execute business and capital market strategies. Smith's scope of work encompasses developing secondary market support for emerging public companies, helping entry-level, development-stage issuers undertake SEC registered offerings, working with company owners to maximize the value of their business assets and serving as an intermediary to facilitate transactions.
From 1979 to 1981, Brad founded Marshall Homes as a Johnstown holding and sales company that converted company owned apartment properties into condominiums. And, from 1975 to 1979 Brad served as Vice President of Acquisitions and Sales for Johnstown Properties where he was responsible for acquiring and selling investment properties for the nations then 5th largest REIT. From 1981 to 1988, Smith managed personal investments and consulted with entities that specialized in capitalizing emerging companies. From 1988 to July 1991, Smith was vice president of Valley Federal Savings and Loan's portfolio company division and its acquirer and successor entity Relco Industries, where he operated an asset management division that supported the capital reserve base for Relco's Surety Bond insurance company.
Previously Brad served on a NASDAQ Advisory Committee, founded the Small Corporate Offering Registration Task Force and was an advisor to the Texas Delegation to the 1995 White House Conference on Small Business. Smith regularly attends and makes recommendations to the annual SEC Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation and actively advocates developing a better securities regulatory regime for entry-level, development stage issuers. Brad has organized, sponsored or addressed numerous capital formation conferences and is the author of "Guide to Strategic Thinking." Mr. Smith received an MBA from Pepperdine University in1979 and a BBA from the University of Oklahoma in 1975. | 