|  William
S. Lear, a FOCUS Senior Advisor, Midwest Region, is responsible
for the firm’s business in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana,
Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri. Mr. Lear has more
than thirty years experience in corporate finance, specializing
in advising companies about how to better articulate their
business strategy to the financial markets, identify sources
of capital and structure and price private placement securities.
Prior to joining FOCUS, for the last three years
at Bridge Investment Corporation, Mr. Lear worked extensively
with small- to medium-sized companies, helping them “find
a voice” in a crowded and confusing financial market
place. Successful mandates include advising on a $5 million
rights offering for a bio-tech company and representing the
15 percent owner/employee of a service company in a multi-million
dollar purchase of the founder’s 85 percent interest.
Previously, Mr. Lear was executive vice president
and chief financial officer of BioSafe Medical Technologies,
raising almost $20 million in capital which enabled the Company
to become the world’s only laboratory able to produce
a platform of highly accurate diagnostics using micro blood
samples self-collected at home or work. Mr. Lear also spent
twenty years with the First National Bank of Chicago and,
prior to that, five years in investment banking with Hornblower
& Weeks: Hemphill, Noyes.
Mr. Lear has an undergraduate degree from
Yale, an MBA from Harvard Business School and served two years
as an Officer in the Navy. He recently completed twelve years
as a National Trustee with the Leukemia-Lymphoma Society and
two years as Co-President of the Harvard Business School Club
of Chicago. He is on the Boards of the Better Government Association
and the Friends of Prentice, the woman’s hospital at
Northwestern Memorial.
Contact Information:
William S. Lear
875 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 3100
Chicago, IL 60611
Office: 312 794-7888
Home Office: 312 654-1226
Cell: 312 363-9686
Fax: 312 794-7801
william.lear@focusbankers.com
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