VelocityHealth Securities
Healthcare Investment Banking
Founded in 2000, VelocityHealth Securities operates a boutique investment banking firm focused on companies within all healthcare sectors including: biotechnology, diagnostics, distribution, healthcare information technology (HCIT), healthcare services, medical devices, and all areas of pharmaceuticals such as drug delivery, generics and specialty pharma.
VelocityHealth Securities offers mergers and acquisitions advisory services for sponsors and companies with enterprise value transactions from $5 million to $500 million, including buy-sides, recapitalizations, sell-sides and fairness opinions. Our capital markets team also advises companies seeking capital including public and private equity, subordinated debt, and senior debt. Our typical equity/debt client is seeking between $5 million to $200 million in capital.
Additionally, VelocityHealth Securities offers advisory services for companies regarding business development and strategic relationships such as: in-licensing and out-licensing of products and technologies, channel partners, and corporate partnering.
Our relationships and clients are national and international in scope, including European, Indian, Asian, and emerging markets.
VelocityHealth Securities, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer and member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and a member of the SIPC.
These are the principles that guide VelocityHealth Securities in its day-to-day operations:
- Integrity is first and foremost to our business. We expect our people to maintain the highest ethical standards in everything we do.
- Our clients’ interests lead our organization. If we provide high quality services and value to our clients, our own success will closely follow.
- We are firmly committed to the principles of hard work, speed, value creation, determination, and execution. We have an uncompromising determination to achieve excellence in everything we undertake.
- We are passionate about our industry and our firm. We hold each other accountable for the highest level of professional standards, and we each feel personally responsible for contributing to the growth and ultimate success of our firm.
- We believe in “Accountable Capitalism” based upon integrity, appropriate incentives, and contributions back to society. We believe that we must be accountable to our clients, shareholders, employees, society, and our world in its entirety.
- Our firm is committed to giving back to society by creating the opportunity for entrepreneurs to exist and thrive. With this in mind, we commit time, capital, and resources to charitable causes on a national and international basis.
- Our assets are our intellectual capital, our network of relationships, financial capital, and most importantly our reputation.
- We go to lengths to identify and recruit the very best person for every job. In a service business, we know that without the best people, we cannot be the best firm.
- We regularly receive confidential information as part of our normal client relationships. To breach a confidence or to use confidential information improperly or carelessly is unthinkable.
Kevin J. Esval
Founder, Executive Managing Director, and CCO
Kenneth R. George, CPA
Chief Financial Officer and FINOP
Dale Yakin
Managing Director
Tony Meyers
Managing Director
Chris McTammany
Managing Director
Audra E. Jones
Vice President of Business Development
Cooper C. Collins
MagnaSci Ventures - Founder and Managing Partner
Dr. Edison Miyawaki
Harvard Medical School - Assistant Professor, Neurology
Richard D. Rehm, M.D.
Spheris, Inc. - Former Chairman
Roger T. Briggs, Jr.
Rabo Securities USA - Senior Advisor