Company: BCG
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001410578-25-000143
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Company: Binah Capital Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: S-1
Chunk 85
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 for Wunderlich Securities, and prior to that he was the Vice Chairman of Olympic Cascade Financial Corporation (an AMEX listed company). Mr. Gould graduated with a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We believe Mr. Gould is qualified to serve on the Board because of the perspective and experience he brings as our Chief Executive Officer and his deep experience in our industry. David Shane. Mr. Shane is acting as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Previously, David served as an independent consultant providing financial advisory services including accounting, financial reporting, regulatory reporting and transaction structuring services to companies primarily in the Financial Services Industry. David has thirty plus years of experience in the financial services industry. David’s financial services experience includes dealings with securities broker-dealers, registered investment advisors, asset management companies and alternative asset companies including private equity, venture capital and hedge funds. David has extensive public accounting experience having served as a Financial Services Audit Partner for RSM and FGMK, LLC. David’s clients included both closely-held and publicly-held financial services companies. David also has experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital raising in both the public and private markets and transaction structuring. In addition to David’s public accounting experience, he has served as the Chief Financial Officer for financial services companies, with most recently as the Chief Financial Officer of Sanctuary Wealth. In addition to David’s technical skills and business acumen, he brings an extensive network within the financial services industry to Wentworth. David is a graduate of Indiana University with a degree in finance, a certified public accountant, and holds a Series 27 FINRA registration. We believe Mr. Shane is qualified to serve on the Board because of his broad financial experience, with experience in our specific industry, and extensive public accounting experience. Non-Employee Directors Joel Marks.Throughout his almost 40-year career in the independent financial services industry, Mr. Marks held a variety of senior executive positions at two highly successful firms, each of which were subsequently acquired by larger organizations. JWGenesis Financial Corp. was acquired by First Union in 2001 and First Allied the Company, Inc. was acquired by RCAP the Company LLC in 2013. At the time of their acquisition by RCAP the Company LLC, Mr. Marks served as Chairman of both First Allied the Company and The Legend Group and with combined annual revenues of approximately $350 million, 1,400 independent financial advisors and assets under administration in excess of $35 billion.

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#### Mr. Marks played a key role in the development and