David Bergstein
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David Bergstein is a financier who specializes in locating, securing financing for, and restructuring companies that are undervalued, distressed and have complicating or litigious factors in their history.
He is also an investment banker and entrepreneur, having purchased and grown several companies such as De Lane Lea, a formerly insolvent London post-production facility, which he turned into a thriving and profitable enterprise in less than five years, eventually selling it to Warner Bros.
Born August 9, 1962, in New York City, Bergstein grew up with an incredibly influential father, a Holocaust survivor who overcame great adversity in his life. His father became a renowned engineer, patenting inventions such as the Zoom lens and pioneering research, which formed the basis for the fiber optics industry.
After graduating high school early, Bergstein attended the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (now NYU), where his father was a professor of engineering. During his time at Polytechnic, he earned a B.S. in pre-med with a math minor and then attended law school at Cardozo University. While in law school, Bergstein worked at Solomon Brothers under Joseph Stechler and later as a research analyst at Bear Sterns, spending the majority of his time locating, analyzing, and reporting on undervalued securities.
In 1984 he moved to California, where he began buying and selling real estate, eventually progressing into real estate development. Bergstein enjoyed remarkable economic success during this period and further developed his exceptional ability to identify assets with latent potential for growth. Around the time of the housing market collapse, he switched gears and began applying his transactional skill set to the business world. Bergstein then acquired a company in the Garment District in Downtown Los Angeles. He revitalized the company back to profitability and sold it within a year, marking the beginning of his success as a financier.
In 1994 Bergstein formed Graybox, which later became Cyrano Group, frequently investing the majority of capital required for its transactions, and capable of acting as both an effective broker and in a consulting capacity, providing specific services that may be unrelated to capital investment. As CEO for nearly 25 years, he handled a wide array of transactions, spanning many fields and ranging in size from $5 million to $1.5 billion.
He is also an investment banker and entrepreneur, having purchased and grown several companies such as De Lane Lea, a formerly insolvent London post-production facility, which he turned into a thriving and profitable enterprise in less than five years, eventually selling it to Warner Bros.
Born August 9, 1962, in New York City, Bergstein grew up with an incredibly influential father, a Holocaust survivor who overcame great adversity in his life. His father became a renowned engineer, patenting inventions such as the Zoom lens and pioneering research, which formed the basis for the fiber optics industry.
After graduating high school early, Bergstein attended the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (now NYU), where his father was a professor of engineering. During his time at Polytechnic, he earned a B.S. in pre-med with a math minor and then attended law school at Cardozo University. While in law school, Bergstein worked at Solomon Brothers under Joseph Stechler and later as a research analyst at Bear Sterns, spending the majority of his time locating, analyzing, and reporting on undervalued securities.
In 1984 he moved to California, where he began buying and selling real estate, eventually progressing into real estate development. Bergstein enjoyed remarkable economic success during this period and further developed his exceptional ability to identify assets with latent potential for growth. Around the time of the housing market collapse, he switched gears and began applying his transactional skill set to the business world. Bergstein then acquired a company in the Garment District in Downtown Los Angeles. He revitalized the company back to profitability and sold it within a year, marking the beginning of his success as a financier.
In 1994 Bergstein formed Graybox, which later became Cyrano Group, frequently investing the majority of capital required for its transactions, and capable of acting as both an effective broker and in a consulting capacity, providing specific services that may be unrelated to capital investment. As CEO for nearly 25 years, he handled a wide array of transactions, spanning many fields and ranging in size from $5 million to $1.5 billion.
