David Weild

David Weild IV has served as a Director of PAVmed since February 2015. He is the founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IssuWorks, Inc., a technology-driven capital facilitation platform, since 2013 and of Weild and Co., an affiliated boutique investment banking firm, since 2003. Mr. Weild also served as Senior Advisor?—?Capital Markets to Grant Thornton LLP, a leading public accounting firm, from 2008 to 2012.

Previously, Mr. Weild served as Vice Chairman, Executive Vice President and Head of Listed Companies, and a member of the Executive Committee of The Nasdaq Stock Market from 2000 to 2003. Prior to joining Nasdaq, from 1987 to 2000, Mr. Weild held positions of increasing responsibility at Prudential Securities Inc., including Vice President and Equity Syndicate Manager, Managing Director and Head of the Global Equity Transaction Groups, Managing Director and Head of Corporate Finance and President of PrudentialFinancial.com, including PrudentialSecurities.com.

Mr. Weild is a recognized expert on capital formation and capital markets structure and has co-authored a number of definitive white papers, studies and articles which have been cited by legislators, regulators, academics, the IPO Task Force, the Equity Capital Formation Task Force and the White House Jobs Council and which are widely regarded as having served as catalysts for reforms and new legislation, including the JOBS Act. Mr. Weild has testified before Congress and the SEC, most recently at the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies. Mr. Weild has also presented to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) about the role of stock market reforms in driving economic growth.

Mr. Weild received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his M.B.A. from New York University Stern School of Business and also studied at the Sorbonne and on exchange at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris) and the Stockholm School of Economics.