NES 2012 - John McKenna

John McKenna
Chairman & CEO
Hamilton Clark Securities Company

Career investment and corporate banker focused on energy and energy technologies:

• Vice President Citibank Petroleum Group, New York
• Managing Director/Head of the Independent Oil and Gas Group, Dean Witter Reynolds (now Morgan Stanley), Houston 
• Managing Director/Head of the Investment Banking Office, Lehman Brothers, Houston 
• CEO McKenna & Company, NASD-member investment bank, Houston (sold to Price Waterhouse in 1996)
• Managing Director PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities, Houston and Washington 
• Chief Financial Officer STM Power, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI (energy technology company)
• CEO Hamilton Clark Securities Company, FINRA-member investment bank, Washington

Prior and current board memberships and teaching positions:

• Former Director: Equus Investments (now NYSE:EQS)
• Former Director: Proler International Corp. (formerly NYSE:PS)
• Former Director: STM Power
• Former Director: University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX 
• Former Adjunct Professor: McDonough Graduate School of Business, Georgetown 
• Director: PROMPT Corporation
• Director: Rotating Sleeve Engine Technologies, Inc.

Served on the Joint U.S. Department of Energy/U.S. Department of Agriculture, Biomass Research & Development Technical Advisory Committee (2005-2008)

BSFS degree from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University

General Securities Principal

About Hamilton Clark Securities Company

Hamilton Clark Securities Company is a FINRA-member investment bank that assists energy technology companies with corporate finance advice, raising capital, completing a merger, acquisition or sale transaction, or seeking a listing on NASDAQ or the London Alternative Investment Market (AiM).

We focus exclusively on energy technology companies including alternative energy and low carbon technologies, renewable energy, traditional oil and gas technologies, clean energy technologies, energy efficiencies and energy optimization, controls and storage.

Originally founded in 1989, we have acted as financial advisor in over 70 assignments including 15 merger, acquisition, divestiture or sale mandates; 20 private equity, debt or project financing engagements; and 35 corporate finance advisory assignments, ranging from venture capital financing for start-up companies to M&A transactions for NYSE listed companies.