Managing Director of Business Development – Daniel P. Cannon, has brought more than 30 years of know-how to the firm. To the Infrastructure Development, Technology, Biotechnology, Media and Entertainment, as well as Energy sectors, he has proffered financial advice and financing.
Before joining Oberon, he headed as a Managing Director for Benjamin & Jerold Brokerage and was a prosperous trader of derivatives. Numerous secondary transactions have been successfully completed by him, providing liquidity where none previously existed. He is even active in Washington, D.C., and his experience with the US based Export-Import Bank and other government entities, elucidates a bridge in the midst of Washington and Wall Street. He began his career in 1985, and is an expert at business development. Since 1985, he has shut all his transaction dealings in Poland, China, and Burma. He went to Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Maryland, learning Economics as well as Government and Politics.
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Daniel P. Cannon will be taking over as Monetas CEO and chairman of the block-chain payments start-up. The founder of Monetas – Johann Gevers, will be continuing to “play an imperative role” on the board of directors.
The US investment banking boutique has no involvement in the Monetas deal. Cannon told swissinfo.ch that there is very little dilution to existing shareholders. Considering that the company was, literally, minutes away from liquidation, it was a good deal for all. The shareholders are supposed to be very much satisfied to have avoided a total loss.
Cannon further adds that the company is putting together a strong executive team and welcomes all former developers. The company will be seeking the greatest minds from around the world, to achieve its goals and make identifications of new applications and ventures consistent with the Monetas strategy.
Despite buying out Gevers’s influential stake in the company, the founder will be kept among the board of directors. He says that the founder is an amazing visionary, an extremely talented and principal individual. He will remain on the board of directors and as a senior officer of the company who will closely vocation with He is in the implementation of Monetas’s business strategy.
Daniel P. Cannon along with the founder – Gevers, together, will act as co-CEOs of Monetas. After the artillery one, the founder – Gevers, will retain an undisclosed stake in the company that will make him the second largest shareholder.
