Senior Advisor
Mr. Brooks is the Senior Advisor of Southampton Development Company, LLC and CFO of TECHNE Properties, LLC. His primary responsibilities include advising the company on the appropriate financial structuring of real estate finance, education, and health care operations. Daily he also manages TECHNE’s relationships with banks, private equity firms, and merchant banks. Mr. Brooks has extensive experience in several different industry sectors, including energy services, communications services, healthcare services, information technology, and telecommunications.
He is a senior financial professional with over 25 years of Wall Street experience completing over 200 transactions involving capital funding or advisory assignments. In addition to completing over 150 private issuances of equity, he has completed numerous public equity offerings, public and private debt offerings as well as mergers and acquisitions for companies in a wide variety of industries.
Mr. Brooks served as Managing Director of Goldman Sachs & Company from 2007-2009 where he established and managed the Private Equity Finance Group which during his tenure raised $18 billion of capital for growth and restructuring transactions during his tenure. Mr. Brooks has also served as Vice Chairman of Trenwith Securities, an Affiliate of BDO, and Managing Director and Head of UBS’s Private Equity Group where he was involved in over $7.6 billion of transactions for clients in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Mr. Brooks also was co-founder of the private equity operation at Deutsche Bank. Prior to assuming this position he served as Vice President of the Merrill Lynch Private Equity Group.
Mr. Brooks currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of SubAir Systems – the leading technology company for turf aerification and drainage, as a board member of Hellenic LLC – an infrastructure development corporation and as a Trustee of The College of William & Mary Mason School of Business.