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Mark Salter is the Founder and CEO of NCCP.  Mark has more than 30 years of investment banking experience, having financed and advised some of the world’s largest cybersecurity, digital media, and software companies.  Mark is also Founder and Managing Partner of El Toro Capital Management, a Santa Monica-based private equity firm focused on investing in outsourced and digital marketing services, cybersecurity and software companies.

Previously, Mark worked as Head of Investment Banking at Wedbush Securities, a nationally recognized investment bank, where he also served on the executive management committee and investment commitment committee.  Prior to that, Mark worked as a senior technology investment banker at Robertson Stephens, a global investment banking and asset management firm.  Mark has been twice-recognized as Most Influential in LA Finance by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

Mark received a BA in Engineering Sciences, cum laude, from Dartmouth College, and a BSEE from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.  Mark received an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Scott Jenkins is President and Head of Investment Banking at NCCP.  He has more than 30 years of investment banking, private equity and equity research experience, having completed many corporate finance transactions, including public and private equity and debt financings, M&A advisory assignments and direct investments.  Scott is also a Partner at El Toro Capital Management, a Santa Monica-based private equity firm focused on investing in outsourced and digital marketing services, cybersecurity and software companies.

Previously, Scott was a technology investment banker at CIBC World Markets (Oppenheimer), a leading investment bank in the U.S. and Canada, and was an investment professional at Laurus Capital Management, a New York-based private equity firm.  Prior to that, Scott was an equity research analyst at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

Scott received a BBA in Finance from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia and an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.

Nick Graham is a Managing Director at NCCP and the founder and managing partner of Concentric Capital Advisors, a boutique merchant banking firm.  Nick has more than 25 years of investment banking and M&A experience and leads NCCP’s healthcare services and HCIT practice.

Previously, Nick spent eight years as a senior healthcare investment banker at Raymond James Morgan Keegan (previously Morgan Keegan and Shattuck Hammond Partners).  Earlier in his career, Nick served as an investment banker at Southwest Securities, RBC Capital Markets, George K. Baum Capital Advisors, and in the M&A group at Koch Industries in London.

Nick received a BS in Finance from Kansas State University, summa cum laude, and currently serves on the KSU Finance Advisory Board.

Eric Helgeland is a Senior Advisor at NCCP and is a commercial banking and marketing executive with more than 40 years of experience as an operational, growth marketing, strategy, and M&A professional.  Also, Eric is the co-founder of two neobank startups and is an Operating Partner at El Toro Capital Management, a Santa Monica-based private equity firm focused on investing in outsourced and digital marketing services, cybersecurity and software companies.

Within financial services he has held senior executive positions in treasury management and payments, consumer banking, consumer finance, and money services businesses at JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, HSBC, and SpeedyCash.  As a financial services consultant and advisor, he has served 12 of top 20 U.S. banks, numerous regional banks, investment banks, bank processors, government agencies, and corporate clients.  Within outsourced and digital marketing services, he led new business development for Fingerhut/Macy’s, one of the 25 largest credit card issuers in the U.S., having successfully acquired 11 companies, and advised Aptimus (NASDAQ: APTM) in the sale of the company.

Eric received a BA in Economics, with a minor in Industrial Engineering, from Northwestern University.