Patrick Thomas joins Kenmar Securities, LLC as Managing Director with more than 30 years of experience in public and private equity capital markets. Patrick specializes in institutional sale sand has held senior management/business development positions at both family offices and broker-dealers.  Patrick’s experience brings to Kenmar a broad strategic perspective to capital formation.  Patrick is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and is based in South Florida.

Maximo Blandon joins Kenmar Securities, LLC as Managing Director. Prior to joining Kenmar Securities, LLC, Maximo was Co-Head of the Power and Industrial Technology Group atStephens Inc. where he specialized in industrial and clean technology.  Maximo’s experience in cross border capital markets, M&A transactions and his over 30 years of investment and banking experience makes him perfectly suited to cover a diverse set of clients across a wide variety of industries.  Maximo received his MBA from Georgetown University and graduated from the United States Naval Academy. He is a native Spanish-speaker.

John J. Watras joins Kenmar Securities, LLC as Managing Director with over 30 years of financial services experience.  John has a background in securities, both listed and unlisted.  John has held various roles in the financial services industry, including Director positions in sales and marketing. More specifically, John was the Global Head of Cap Intro with Cowen Prime Services LLC.  This experience makes John particularly suited for developing and growing Kenmar Securities LLC’s institutions investor base.  

Richard Finley is a Director with 15+ years of experience as a consultative sales professional.  At Kenmar, we believe that Rich will be able to add a great deal of value in his business development role.  In that role Rich will be sourcing investment opportunities as well as capital.  Rich, built he current skill sets while working with alternative and traditional asset managers, corporations and national broker dealers.  Before coming to Kenmar, Rich worked at CFRA Research, Exotix Capital, and Gryphon Strategies.  Rich graduated with a B.S. degree from the University of Delaware.

David Kratochvil is a Managing Director and brings more than 30 years of broad financial sector experience and leadership. David joins the Company from Euro Pacific Capital, where he served as Managing Director in the Corporate Finance department overseeing the firm’s investment banking efforts across a variety of sectors since 2008, Kratochvil also served as Director of Research where he managed a team of equity analysts and increased research coverage.  David had a lengthy career analyzing and investing in international securities which makes him perfectly suited for the international  investments that are hallmark at Kenmar Securities, LLC.  Additionally, Kratochvil founded his own advisory firm, Vista Capital Advisors, to provide global investment advice. David also served as a business tax consultant in New York.   He currently has his Series 7, 24,63, 79, 86, 87.  David earned his undergraduate degree in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) and an MBS in Finance at the University of Chicago (Booth).

Quentin Whyte, is a Sr. Associate and joined Kenmar directly after graduation from Northwestern University in 2016. Quentin is focused on quantitative analysis, issuer due diligence recommendations and capital allocation. Quentin has been involved with several M & A and capital raising transactions in U.S., Latin America and Europe.