Dakota Diaz is an experienced Financial Industry Professional who has spent his career researching, qualifying, executing and managing financial positions in various institutional grade investments. Dakota has diverse working experience ranging from bulge bracket investment houses to the private family office arena.

Dakota’s specialties lie in his broad versatility and knowledge across a wide range of investment structures, in both the private and public markets. He has expansive experience working with Ultra-High Net Worth clients, capital raising for new investments, and providing modeling, analytical, and Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) expertise.

Dakota excels in financial modeling and analysis, including company and stock evaluation, investment returns, profitability and cash flow, investor waterfall equity and exit strategy breakdowns, and proforma and FP&A modeling. He has a deep knowledge of stock and options markets gained through executing complex, high-volume, trading strategies, both as a passive and as an activist trader in the long and short markets.

Dakota joins us from Glenwick Capital, a family office, wherein he navigated through various investment structures, including private equity, venture capital, acquisitions, commercial real estate, and equity markets – all over a variety of industries, including technology, entertainment, legal, and infrastructure, to name a few.

Prior to Glenwick Capital, Dakota was with JP Morgan Securities as part of a small team managing a portfolio in excess of $4 billion. He engaged in high-volume trading models, working orders through market, as well as working with the trading floor team in New York to ensure best execution for clients. He monitored margin calls and requirements, and ran Tactical vs. Strategic Allocations to keep portfolios in line with targets. He also developed relationships with outside analysts to maximize insight and resources of information.

Previous to JP Morgan he began his career with UBS Wealth Management where he aided his team in acquiring over $1.5 billion in new assets through his use of Bloomberg to identify and connect with potential and future clients.

Dakota has built investment relationships across the US, spending considerable time in Southern California, Chicago, and South Florida.

Dakota is a graduate of DePaul University’s Driehaus School of Business with a degree in Global Monetary Economics.

Dakota’s investor decks and associated work has helped raise over $32M in seed money and included private investors, family offices, institutional lenders, and private mezzanine debt investment companies in order to provide funding for mergers and acquisitions, angel investment, company expansions, and exit opportunities. Projects span from Miami, Los Angeles, New York, and onto South America.

A recent 6.8M acquisition included 10 months of due diligence and restructuring – using multiple forms of investment capital lines to close and expand the company from one location to covering an entire state and a preeminent operator in the industry.

Recent experience includes his role as Vice President of business operations of an acquired company, where he ran budget and financial forecasting, created efficiencies, lowered costs, and explored and implemented new ancillary businesses to create new revenue streams while expanding the company throughout a larger geographical operating footprint.

Dakota has also worked with individual companies to assist in strategic market growth plans in his role as a co-member of the company’s largest private stockholder.

One of his more noted activist due diligence and research projects led to the uncovering of a multi-decade long multi-stock fraudulent market manipulation, pump and dump scheme which was brought to the public via work with the cable network CNBC, which led to the end of the scheme and far reaching SEC charges.