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John J. McKenna
Chairman and CEO
703-288-5277
703-405-0881 cell
john[dot]mckenna[at]hamiltonclark[dot]com
John is a career energy and technologies commercial and investment banker.
From 1971 to 1981 he was a commercial banker at Citibank in New York. From 1973
to 1976 he was an officer in Citibank’s consumer non-durables group where
he handled food companies and farmer cooperatives, and from 1976 to 1981 he was
a Vice President in Citibank’s petroleum group where he managed large and
complex oil and gas project financings, and synthetic and alternative energy financing.
From 1981 until the present he has been an investment banker. From 1981 to 1985
he was a Managing Director and head of the independent oil and gas group at Dean
Witter Reynolds in Houston, and from 1985 to 1989 he was a Managing Director and
head of the Houston investment banking office of Lehman Brothers. In 1989 he started
McKenna & Company and McKenna Securities Company, a member of the NASD and SIPC.
In 1996, McKenna & Company was sold to Price Waterhouse and he became head of
the Price Waterhouse energy investment banking group in Houston. He later
was transferred to Washington, DC to manage the Project Finance and Privatization
Group and the energy technologies group at PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities.
From 2000 to 2003 he was the Chief Financial Officer at STM Power, a leading developer
of kinematic Stirling cycle engines for distributed energy production.
In 2003 he co-founded Venture Capital Advisors and in 2004 Venture Capital Advisors
acquired Hamilton Clark & Co., which is a registered broker-dealer with the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a member of the NASD.
He has served on the boards of Equus Corporation, a business development company
(now NYSE:EQS), Proler International Corp., which at the time of its acquisition
was the world’s largest scrap steel recycler (formerly NYSE:PS), STM Power
and numerous charitable and civic organizations.
John graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree from the Walsh
School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and has served as an Adjunct
Professor at the McDonough Graduate School of Business at Georgetown where he taught
the course titled Project Finance. Mr. McKenna will devote full time to the company.
He is a General Securities Principal. He holds Series 7, 24, and 63 licenses.
Ross F Crawford
Managing Director
713-658-8080
ross[dot]crawford[at]hamiltonclark[dot]com
Prior to joining HamiltonClark as a managing Director, Ross was President
and Managing Partner of the private merchant banking firm, Dominion Financial Partners,
LLC which he co-founded in 1988. He also served as President of its NASD registered
broker dealer, Dominion Financial Securities Company.
Additionally, during this period he has managed two diversified middle market companies,
one a manufacturer of instrumentation products and the other a provider of mechanical
full-scale test and engineering services. His merger and acquisition experience
was broadened by having initiated and led the execution teams for the sale of each
of these companies during his operational tenure.
He is an active investor in new economy, early stage ventures. Prior to 1988, he
had a successful career spanning nearly twenty years in corporate banking and management
with Houston-based First City Bancorporation.
He graduated from the University of the Pacific with a BA in International Relations
in 1965 and then worked at the U. S. Army Security Agency. Since 1982, he has served
on the World Business Advisory Council of the Thunderbird, American Graduate School
of International Management and is a member of the Houston Venture Capital Association
and the Houston Angel Network.
He is a General Securities Principal. He holds Series 7, 24, and 63 licenses.
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