David Walters co-founded Monarch Bay Associates, LLC, a FINRA member broker dealer, in 2006. Prior to Monarch Bay Associates, Mr. Walters was a principal with Monarch Bay Capital Group, LLC, a firm that provided advisory services and capital for emerging growth companies. From 1992 through 2000 he was Executive Vice President and Managing Director in charge of Capital Markets for Roth Capital (formerly Cruttenden Roth) where he was instrumental in building the company’s revenues from $7 million to $65 million. As an equity partner, he managed the capital markets group and led over 100 public and private financings, raising over $2 billion in growth capital.

Additionally, Mr. Walters oversaw a research department that covered over 100 public companies, and was responsible for the syndication, distribution and after-market trading of the public offerings. He managed the public offerings for Cruttenden Roth, which was the most prolific public underwriter in the U.S. for deals whose post-offering market cap was less than $100 million. Mr. Walters sat on Roth’s Board of Directors from 1994 through 2000. Prior to Cruttenden Roth, he was Vice President for both Drexel Burnham Lambert and Donaldson Lufkin and Jenrette in Los Angeles, and he ran a private equity investment fund. Mr. Walters maintains an extensive network of specialists in research, syndication of transactions, trading and market-making for small capitalization companies. Mr. Walters earned a B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego.