Pickwick Capital Partners
David Battleman has extensive work experience in the life sciences and healthcare sector. David is the Principal and Founder of TrueNorth Lifesciences, where they provide strategic consulting and financial advisory services to innovative life science companies. Additionally, they work with elite family offices, hedge funds, and high net worth individuals in healthcare and biotech-related investments. Prior to TrueNorth, David served as a Managing Director at Pickwick Capital Partners. David was also a Senior Principal at IMS Health and a Management Consultant at Bain & Company. Earlier in their career, David worked as a Director at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and as an Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine.
David Battleman has a strong education background, with degrees spanning multiple fields. In 1988, they earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from The Johns Hopkins University. David then pursued further studies in medicine, attending the Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University from 1990 to 1994, where they obtained a Medical Doctor (MD) degree. Continuing their academic journey, Battleman pursued a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Epidemiology & Quantitative Methods from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, completing the program from 1998 to 2000. Finally, they attended The Wharton School from 2002 to 2004, where they received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree with a focus on Finance.
Pickwick Capital Partners
Pickwick Capital Partners, LLC assists middle-market companies and alternative investment firms achieve their strategic, financing and M&A objectives. We do this through a focused and collaborative process driven by the talent of our advisors, who bring a wealth of experience from leading investment banks such as Morgan Stanley, Jefferies & Company, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, and others. Our team is comprised of energetic, hands-on solution providers. We focus on quality, and each and every transaction is important to us. Pickwick clients can be assured their advisors are true partners with the capabilities, motivation and experience necessary for success. Our advisors have collectively completed capital raising and M&A transactions worth billions of dollars. Pickwick’s primary services are investment banking, focused on M&A and debt/equity, and third-party-marketing placements, in which we raise capital for alternative asset funds including hedge funds, private equity groups and venture capital funds. We offer our clients the advantage of a well-established and broad network of institutional investors, family offices, qualified purchasers, private equity and buy-out groups, strategic buyers, growth capital providers, senior, junior and mezzanine lenders and debt providers, and emerging and middle-market companies. We also provide our clients strategic insights into a diverse range of industries, including: cyber/physical security, banks/financial institutions and financial technology (Fin-Tech), real estate, Big Data, aerospace/defense, alternative energy/clean tech/green tech, entertainment, industrial, health IT/medical devices/biotech/pharmaceuticals, e-learning and tech-enabled business services. An SEC-registered Broker/Dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC, Pickwick is located in Westchester, New York, with advisors across the country, including in the metro DC-area, Boston, Los Angeles, Richmond, Baltimore, Miami, Dallas, Austin and Houston.