David K. Waldman
David Waldman has a long and successful track record working with publicly traded companies of all sizes and across a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, technology, industrial, financial, medical, and business services. He has built a reputation as a leading expert on communications best practices and has developed an extensive network on Wall Street. He has arranged hundreds of investor road shows and has provided communications counsel to senior members of management across a wide range of issues, including M&A, management changes, earnings surprises, crisis communications, Reg-FD disclosure, etc.
He has experience with companies that are both public and in the process of going public, including an in-depth knowledge of the unique challenges facing reverse merger companies. He has also assisted many foreign issuers, including numerous china-based companies, tap into the growing investor demand for quality overseas emerging growth companies.
Prior to founding Crescendo Communications, David served as vice president at a leading New York City based investor relations firm, as well as two other premier investor relations firms, where he was responsible for managing a wide range of accounts. He has helped his clients build their exposure on Wall Street by attracting institutional ownership, securing research coverage, and providing introductions to sources of capital. David also brings in-house IR experience having handled the investor relations for a multi-billion dollar satellite telecommunications company.
David has a B.S. in Communications and Political Science from Northwestern University. He lives on Long Island with his wife and daughter, and enjoys fishing.
Klea Theoharis
Klea Theoharis brings a wealth of experience and contacts to her mission of maximizing the visibility of publicly-traded companies among members of the investment community throughout the United States. Klea has spent her 25-year career on Wall Street and during that time has cultivated extensive relationships among institutional and retail investors around the country. Her investor relations background encompasses the full scope of the function, including message development, press releases, conference call scripts, consulting, investor road shows, introductions for capital raising purposes and pre-IPO planning from an investor relations perspective.
During her 12-year tenure in the investor relations business, Klea has represented dozens of companies in sectors as varied as consumer products, technology, biotech, healthcare, specialty finance, REITs and environmental services, among others. While she has worked successfully with companies of all market caps, her focus has been on those with market caps under $500 million where the challenges are greater, but the impact of her efforts are often of greatest significance.
Prior to founding KLEA Associates in May of 2004, she was Director of Market Intelligence at a leading New York-based investor relations firm where she was responsible for executing all aspects of investor road shows and investment community outreach. Previously, she designed and implemented the IR programs for companies in a diverse range of industry sectors. Klea was an associate director at The Nasdaq Stock Market prior to embarking on a career in investor relations where she provided Nasdaq-listed companies with market research and analysis which focused on trading characteristics of their stock, target marketing for investor relations efforts, and market maker activity. Prior to Nasdaq, she worked in the Private Client Group at Wertheim Schroder. Klea also spent six years at Mitchell Hutchins Asset Management, a division of PaineWebber, as a research associate in the equity mutual funds area. Klea began her career in the equity research departments of A.G. Becker and Lionel D. Edie.
Klea is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College with a degree in business management. She also attended the New York Institute of Finance where she studied security analysis and portfolio management. Klea has held Series 7, 63 and 65 brokerage licenses. She is also a member of the National Investor Relations Institute and New York Women in Communications.
