Dawn Wilson Barnes

Dawn Wilson Barnes is the President and Founder of Aurora Bay Capital, an Atlanta-based financial services firm that provides institutional marketing and consulting services to firms seeking growth capital. She is currently a Registered Securities Representative and Associated Person of Pickwick Capital Partners, LLC. Ms. Barnes is also a Georgia-state Registered Investment Advisor through Aurora Bay Capital.

Dawn began her financial services career at the New York office of J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc. in the Private Finance Group transacting private debt offerings including the firm’s first cross-border securitization. She later transitioned to the firm’s Equity Capital Markets Group, transacting IPOs and follow-on equity offerings for issuers across a variety of industries. Following her tenure at J.P. Morgan, she was a Vice President in the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs & Co., where she managed $2BN in multi-asset class investment portfolios in the firm’s Private Wealth Management Group.

Dawn graduated from The University of Michigan with a BBA in Accounting where she attended on a full-tuition Academic scholarship funded by Honeywell, Inc. She began her professional career in Honeywell, Inc.’s Corporate Financial Audit Department performing financial and operational audits of domestic and international Honeywell divisions. While in this role, she sat for and passed the Uniform CPA Examination in the State of Minnesota. Dawn later transitioned from Audit to a Program Accounting position with Honeywell’s F-15 INU Program at the firm’s Military Avionics Division in St. Petersburg, Florida. She was also a Political Appointee of the first Clinton Administration in the U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Employment Standards Administration.

Dawn holds an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. She holds the Series 7, 63, 66, 79 and 50 registrations.