Life Sciences Overview
We help global emerging life sciences companies
accelerate their product vision, FDA approval
and post approval processes, market execution
and senior exchange listing aspirations.
What we look for:
Business type
- Revolutionary Science
- Client traction
- Patient Acceptance
- Endorsement
Business sectors
- Pharmaceuticals
- Devices
- Med-Info/Software
- Nutraceuticals
Our sweet spot
- Cap raise$ 15m – $ 100m
- Revenue$ pre – $ 100m (pre-revenue in emerging industries)
- Market cap$ 30m – $ 500m
- ExchangesNasdaq, NYSE, NEO
Our Life Sciences Team
Extensive life sciences business, capital formation, public market execution coupled with deep scientific expertise established through over 100 client engagements.

Bob Giordano
Managing Director, Life Sciences
Bob Giordano
Managing Director, Life Sciences
Bob has over 35 years of experience in the financial services industry, specializing in various aspects of the capital markets, with a strong focus on capital raising and consultancy for emerging life science companies.
Prior to his current roles, Bob was a partner at KCSA Worldwide, a middle market Investor Relations firm, for seven years until 2001. Following that, he founded his own boutique investor relations firm, ROI Group, with a primary focus on supporting early-stage, emerging companies, particularly in the life sciences sector. The firm regularly arranged Capital introductory opportunities for its clients with life science-oriented investment banks. In 2007, he sold ROI Group and joined Jesup and Lamont as the Managing Director of its life science banking practice.
Bob’s educational background includes a B.A. from St. John’s University and an L.L.B. from St. John’s Law School. He also holds a Series 7 Securities License, grandfathered for Investment Banking activities.
Through his extensive experience in both investment banking and investor relations, Bob has developed an incredible skill set in seamlessly integrating both disciplines to provide comprehensive solutions for early-stage life science companies that are continuously seeking support in both areas.

John N. Bonfiglio, PhD
Scientific Advisor
John N. Bonfiglio, PhD
Scientific Advisor
John N. Bonfiglio PhD MBA and has over 30 years’ experience in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry Including over 20 years as a C-level
executive in the biotech industry.Dr. Bonfiglio started his career with 11 years at Allergan pharmaceuticals. He spent 3 years at Baxter HealthCare before starting a career in
small biotech companies. He rose to the position of CEO at Peregrine Pharmaceuticals where he turned around the financially strapped
public company.Dr. Bonfiglio was named COO at Cypress Bioscience while the company was reinventing itself as neuro-pharmaceutical company. He then
joined the Immune Response Corporation as CEO and was responsible for raising over $50M and restarting clinicals in the HIV and MS areas.As CEO at Argos Therapeutics a privately held oncology company, he raised $35M through a series C financing. His tenure at Argos
produced clinical data which led to an IPO and subsequent financings.Following Argos, he became President and CEO at Oragenics in Tampa, Fl. Here he completed two strategic deals with Intrexon Corporation,
raised $29M relisted the company on the NYSE:MKT and refocused the company on new novel and proprietary antibiotics.Dr. Bonfiglio was the COO at TapImmune where he was responsible for starting a clinical program, raising capital and relisting the company
on Nasdaq. The company is now known as Marker Therapeutics (MRKR -Nasdaq).Dr. Bonfiglio has held independent Board positions at GT BioPharma (GTBP), Microlin and Genprex (GNPX). He recently joined Sequella a
private company developing new therapies for Multi Drug Resistant tuberculosis as an executive Board director.

Marcus F. Keep, MD
Scientific Advisor
Marcus F. Keep, MD
Scientific Advisor
Marcus Keep is a founder of NeuroVive Pharmaceutical, renamed Abliva, focusing on neuroprotection in traumatic
brain injury, and rare mitochondria diseases. He was on the Board from 2000 to 2018. NeuroVive/Abliva is a publically
traded Swedish company on the Stockholm Nasdaq, and on the Over The Counter (OTC) market in the USA. Marcus
worked since 2014 with the Bob Giordano Group, initially as client to raise $8 million through successful PIPE for
NeuroVive, and thereafter as scientific and medical advisor to the Giordano Group to evaluate and assist early stage
technology companiesDr. Keep is a practicing neurosurgeon specializing in neurotrauma at a level 1 trauma center. He has practiced
radiosurgery with Gamma Knife and CyberKnife. Dr. Keep trained at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill
University. He has been neurosurgery assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, and associate professor at
Penn State Hershey.Marcus Keep, MD was a neuroscience researcher in cerebellar transplantation at INSERM (the French NIH) in Paris. He
also had a 2-year neuro-research fellowship at Lund University, Sweden, in neuroprotection, brain plasticity and
epilepsy. He has performed neuroprotection research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He has 27 publications, 3
chapters, and is named on 4 patents.

Robert Miller, CFA
Advisor
Robert Miller, CFA
Advisor
While starting out as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch, a CFO of a Fortune 500 company, and the Treasurer of a $4 billion dollar company, Bob has created a professional purpose of financing and commercializing unique, medical technologies, which improve health in the world. Using his CFO skill sets to assist health care companies. For the last 20 years Bob has served as the CFO of numerous health care companies, financing and assisting the launch of unique, medical technologies. For example, he joined Oculus, later named Sonoma Pharmaceuticals, as an early-stage start-up. The company raised over $50 million privately from high-net-worth individuals to support 1) the FDA approval of a unique, HOCL, infectious disease technology, which is an antimicrobial without any resistance and anti-inflammatory, and 2) its approval and launch in Mexico. Sonoma Pharmaceuticals then completed an IPO, receiving FDA approval in the United States. Launching into the wound care, dermatology, and animal health markets. The use of HOCL has become standard of care in treatment of wound care and many dermatological diseases in the U.S. and internationally. In 2014 Bob was promoted to the COO and CFO role, responsible for regulatory, clinical, reimbursement, manufacturing, finance, and investor relations. As a part of the senior management team, Bob was intimately involved in the commercial launches into the wound care, dermatology, and animal markets.
Life Sciences Advisory Overview
Capabilities
Broad capital markets capability sets, from IPO’s, direct listings and SPACS on senior exchanges such as NASDAQ and NYSE American to a broad range of financing options.
Scope of Services
End-to-end turnkey solutions, from the preparation, senior exchange filings and communication, financing capital markets strategy to post listing execution
Execution
To optimizing the company story and product benefits and ultimately enhancing valuation outcomes to optimizing the company story and product benefits and ultimately enhancing valuation outcomes.
