Mr. Berlacher is a founder of Emerging Growth Equities, Ltd. He oversees the activities of the firm, focusing on the Capital Markets area. Mr. Berlacher has been an investment banker for over 16 years, successfully raising over a billion dollars of capital for micro to mid capitalization technology based companies.

Prior to EGE, Mr. Berlacher was the Managing Director of Capital Markets at Boenning & Scattergood, Inc. where he was successful at establishing a Capital Markets group including, investment banking, syndicate, M&A and financial advisory services.

Prior to that, Mr. Berlacher was Senior Vice President and Manager of Corporate Finance at Pennsylvania Merchant Group Ltd., a Pennsylvania-based investment banking firm, where he was responsible for directing the daily operations of the Corporate Finance group.

Mr. Berlacher holds a B.S. in Finance with a concentration in Investments from the University of Toledo. He is also a founder of LIP Advisors, LLC, the general partner of Lancaster Investment Partners, L.P., a money management firm.

 

Mrs. Meyer has over thirteen years experience in investment banking, specializing in financing emerging growth companies in the technology and healthcare area.

Prior to joining EGE, Mrs. Meyer worked in the corporate finance departments of Pennsylvania Merchant Group Ltd., Prudential-Bache Capital Markets and Financial Security Assurance. Mrs. Meyer's extensive experience includes public and private equity offerings, debt financings, structured asset backed transactions, and financial advisory services including fairness opinions. Mrs. Meyer received a B.S. in Economics from Emory University and completed graduate level course work in International Economics and Finance at the London School of Economics.

Jay Seid
Director of Corporate Development

Jay is responsible for due diligence, structuring, documenting, closing financings, acquisitions, portfolio company strategic agreements, dispositions and supervising outside counsel. From December 1992 to June 2004, Jay was a Managing Director of Bachow & Associates, Inc., a private equity firm with over $450 million under management. Previously, he was President and General Counsel of Judicate, Inc., a publicly traded nationwide provider of alternative dispute resolution (mediation and arbitration) services. Prior to Judicate, he was an attorney specializing in mergers and acquisitions at Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen in Philadelphia, devoting a significant portion of his time to start-up and high-growth companies. Jay graduated with a BA, Summa Cum Laude, in Economics and Art History from Rutgers University and he received a JD, with honors, from New York University School of Law.