David Bellet:  

David F. Bellet Retired Chairman Crown Advisors David began his investment career at Citibank in 1968 after graduating from Columbia University¿s Graduate School of Business with an MBA. He established Citibank¿s Technology Investment Research Team in the early 1970s. He was promoted to the portfolio management department in 1975 where he created and managed the very successful Special Equity Fund pool of capital investing in emerging growth stocks. As a young Vice President at Citibank he pioneered in the U.S. the use of alternative investments for institutional clients by investing early in private equity and venture capital partnerships beginning in 1975. In 1981 he founded Crown Advisors. Crown was the first independent money management firm devoted to investing in a mix of both private and public emerging growth companies. Private companies financed included BISYS, Ciena, Cobalt Networks, Compaq Computer, Convex, Computer, Continental Medical, Convergent Technologies, Cypress Semiconductor, Crystal Semiconductor, Fiserv, Lincare, Lotus Development, Mentor Graphics, Teradata and U.S. Surgical Partners among others. Early public company investments included Bed Bath & Beyond, Communications Industries, Hewlett-Packard, Information Resources, Intel, Medcath, Molex, Paychex, Perkin Elmer, Pizza Hut, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Intel, Safety-Kleen, Sbarro, Shared Medical, Tandem Computers, Texas Instruments, US Surgical Products and Wal-Mart. Crown Advisors¿ clients included corporate pension funds, university endowments, state pension funds, wealthy families, entrepreneurs and general partners of private equit...Expand for more