David O. Zenker Jr.

Managing Director

David O. Zenker, Jr. is a Managing Director at Cypress. He is an investment banker, principal and advisor specializing in the conception, planning, and funding of start-up and early-stage companies whose product or service represents a paradigm shift that offers a self-evident, marked improvement over current standards. Mr. Zenker’s areas of focus include biotech, medical devices, alternative energy, and sustainable business models with commercial and social significance.

 

In 1983 Mr. Zenker joined the fixed income department at Bear Stearns in New York, working first in high yield bonds and then specializing in bankruptcies and restructurings. He subsequently worked in the same field at Oppenheimer & Co. from June 1988 to June 1991 and Jefferies & Co. from July 1991 to April 1993. Following Jefferies, from 1993 to 2003 he served as President of Van Beuren Capital Management where he acted as both principal and advisor in connection with private equity investments related to energy, life sciences, real estate, gaming, advertising and general industrial manufacturing. Prior to joining Cypress, Mr. Zenker was a Senior Managing Director at Brock Capital Group LLC from 2003 to 2024.

 

Mr. Zenker began his career in 1977 in the Investment Analysis and Research Department at J. Henry Schroder-Wagg in London. In 1978, he formed a partnership, Frith, Kirk & Zenker, providing management and marketing consulting services to European companies operating in the Arabian Gulf. He was based in Sharjah, U.A.E. where to complement his consulting work, he developed and managed under the direction of Frederick Pittera, an American pioneer in the exhibition industry, the Arabian Gulf’s leading exhibition, conference, and entertainment center from 1978 – 1982.

 

Mr. Zenker has a B.A. from Brown University and a M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business.

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