About Hidden Equity Capital

Hidden Equity Capital is an asset management and capital advisory firm that focuses on advancing small minority and women owned businesses, which are historically underserved in today’s society. We feel that the emerging segment of businesses owned by minorities and women provides great opportunity for investors to receive absolute returns on their investments. Also, by putting private capital into these underserved minority and women owned businesses, investors can feel that they are having a positive impact on communities in need while generating significant absolute returns.

With over 20 years of investment experience, we have the knowledge and relationships necessary to lead our clients to success. These crucial relationships with some of the top investment banking firms on Wall Street have been developed and maintained in part by one of our founders and partners, Dana Howard, while playing for a several successful teams in the NFL.

Our partners’ specific experiences with some of the top financial companies in the United States, allows Hidden Equity Capital to provide successful absolute return investments. We are not only able to use the knowledge gathered working at companies such as JP Morgan or Merrill Lynch, but also we are able to tap into the important relationships with key people that our partners’ developed over their years of first-hand experience raising capital within these companies. When we then apply this knowledge of private capital building and absolute return investments to the emerging domestic companies, which we focus on, we are able to create a business that helps foster new businesses owned by minorities and women in underserved, urban communities.

Bios:

Demond Wilkerson, Founder and Managing Partner

  • Demond Wilskerson is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hidden Equity Capital with 10 years of experience raising capital.
  • He previously worked as the Regional Manager for JP Morgan Asset Management, where he was responsible for raising close to $700 million.
  • He worked within JP Morgan Chase to provide business credit resources and financial advisory services to small businesses.
  • While working for Merrill Lynch Private Client Services Group, he presented investment solutions to high net worth individuals and foundations.
  • He successfully raised money for small publicly traded companies and private placements at Global Capital securities.
  • Demond is currently working with the NY MBDA to develop a program to help educate small business owners on how to properly prepare for private equity funding.
  • He holds a BA in Finance from Delaware State University and Series 7, 63, and 65 licenses.

Dana Howard, Founder and Managing Partner

  • Dana Howard is a Founder and Managing Partner with over 6 years of investment experience at Merrill Lynch Private Client Group.
  • His responsibilities included raising assets and overseeing a $50 million dollar book of business.
  • Throughout his career, Dana worked with high net worth individuals, pensions and foundations.
  • Dana spent five years in the National Football League playing for the Chicago Bears, Dallas Cowboys, and St Louis Rams.
  • He was an All-American and Butkus award winner at the University of Illinois.
  • Dana holds a BA from Illinois University and he holds the series 7 and 66 licenses.

Global Tactical Portfolio Managers:

Eric A. Stubbs, Phd

  • Eric A. Stubbs is the Senior Portfolio Manager with 20 years of experience in investment strategy.
  • SVP RBC Dain Rauscher
  • He has consulted to over $100 billion in assets.
  • He went to Bear Stearns as Managing Director and co-head of the Bear Stearns Wealth Management Services Group.
  • Previously, he headed the Strategic Investment Advisory Group at J.P. Morgan where he provided investment strategy advice to institutional clients and focused on risk measurement and management.
  • He was risk manager for J.P. Morgan’s $30 billion book of proprietary investments and trading businesses and served as the business and algorithms designer for JP Morgan’s market risk management system for three years.
  • Eric holds a PhD in Financial Economics from Harvard University, 2 M.A.’s and a B.A. earned with “High Distinction” from University of Toronto, and has taught at Harvard, Rutgers University, The State University of New York and the University of Toronto.
  • He holds series 3, 7, 24, 63, 65 licenses.
  • He is author and editor of numerous professional articles on economics and investments, including some of the first publications on tracking error budgeting (Journal of Portfolio Mgmt, 1999) and buyside risk management (1998).
  • He is an affiliate member of the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries.

Enrique Jaen, Phd

  • VP RBC Dain Rauscher
  • Enrique is a quantitative finance & investment strategist with ten years of experience modeling stochastic systems.
  • He has designed and developed customized investment solutions for private individuals and pension funds in the areas of tax sensitive asset allocation, goals based asset allocation, alternative investments, manager allocation, tax sensitive stock option analysis, and risk management.
  • He was a vice president and co-coordinated the design and development of many of the analytical systems that Bear Stearns uses today including stock option analyzers, asset allocation tools, cash flow estimators, and reporting for defined contribution plans.
  • He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from SUNY Stony Brook. He is a co-author of several professional articles on the modeling of complex physical systems.