Rick Schweiger Joins Keating Investments
March 31, 2010 - Greenwood Village, Colorado - Keating Investments, LLC announced today that Frederic ("Rick") M. Schweiger has joined the firm as a Member. Mr. Schweiger will also become the third member of the firm's Investment Committee, which is responsible for managing Keating Capital Inc.'s portfolio. The other two members of the Keating Capital Investment Committee are Timothy J. Keating, Chief Executive Officer, and Kyle L. Rogers, Chief Operating Officer.
From 1999 to 2009, Mr. Schweiger (age 50) has been the owner and President of Garisch Financial, Inc., a firm providing business and financial consulting services to private companies, including private operating companies interested in raising private or public financing as part of a going public strategy. Mr. Schweiger was also a consultant to and registered representative of Keating Securities, LLC, a FINRA registered broker-dealer specializing in reverse merger transactions from January 2004 through July 2006. Prior to founding Garisch Financial, Inc., Mr. Schweiger spent nearly 15 years advising middle market companies in various capacities including as a corporate attorney, mergers and acquisition advisor, chief financial officer and investment banker. Mr. Schweiger received a B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame, a J.D. degree from Marquette University and a Masters of Law in Taxation degree from New York University.
"We worked with Rick Schweiger on our first going public transaction in 2001," stated Timothy J. Keating, President of Keating Investments. "Since that initial transaction nearly nine years ago, Rick has assisted Keating Investments and various affiliated entities in a variety of capacities in nearly 50 transactions of all types in the U.S., Europe and China. Quite simply, Rick has a rare and extraordinary operational and technical skill set. We are delighted to add the breadth and depth of his investment and transactional talents to our team."
About Keating Capital, Inc.
Keating Capital, Inc. is a business development company that specializes in making pre-IPO investments in innovative, high growth companies that are committed to and capable of becoming public. We provide individual investors with the ability to participate in a unique fund that invests in a company's late stage, pre-IPO financing round-an opportunity that has historically been reserved for institutional investors only.
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