Martin Magida, CFA
Mr. Magida serves as Managing Director and Group Head of Private Capital. He joined Trenwith in July 2006 from Sandhurst Capital, a merchant bank he founded in 2003. Prior to founding Sandhurst, Mr. Magida served as a Director in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Investment Banking Group at Investec, Inc. after having been an Executive Director at UBS Warburg LLC, responsible for that firm's Enterprise Hardware practice and East Coast semiconductor effort. He joined UBS Warburg in 2000 from Paine Webber's Investment Banking Division, where he was a Director in the Technology Group. From 1996 until January 1999, he was a Vice President at C.E. Unterberg, Towbin, an investment banking boutique specializing in technology and business services. Previously, Mr. Magida was a Vice President of Investment Banking at Josephthal & Company and a Senior Corporate Finance Analyst at BDO Seidman. He began his career in the securities industry at Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1983 and has served on the board of Misonix, Inc., a publicly traded medical device company.
Mr. Magida was a co-founder of the Sandhurst Collateralized Return Fund, renamed Whitecap Advisors, general partner to a hedge fund specializing in collateralized debt instruments.
Mr. Magida holds a BA in Political Science from Union College and an MBA from New York University, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He is qualified as a General Securities Representative and a General Securities Principal.