JANSSEN PARTNERS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Chairman
- History / Philanthropic Foundation
Janssen Partners, Inc. is an Investment Banking Firm dedicated to building successful growth-oriented companies, while guiding our investors to superior financial returns. We accomplish this by:
Providing financing and strategic advice to emerging growth companies, with a focus on the biotechnology, healthcare, alternative energy, Internet, and technology industries.
Mr. Janssen has built his career around his passion for innovation and altruism by funding companies that are for the betterment of mankind. Mr. Janssen has over 7 years of venture capital and investment banking experience focusing primarily on the life science and technology sectors of the capital markets. Mr. Janssen has completed over 25 transactions throughout his career, including private placements, public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. In the past seven years, he has successfully raised over $500mm ranging from microcap startups to venture-backed, late-stage companies. Mr. Janssen's client base is composed of ultra-high net worth individuals, family offices and specialty funds. Through his vast network, Mr. Janssen has provided human capital to build out management teams and boards of many of his portfolio companies.
Mr. Janssen holds Series 7 and 63 registrations with the FINRA.
Mr. Janssen has over 30 years of Investment Banking experience. Prior to founding Janssen Partners, Inc., Peter co-founded Janssen/Meyers Associates L.P. in September of 1994. There he successfully raised capital for a number of emerging growth companies. Starting in 1987, he worked for D.H. Blair as a senior Vice President of Corporate Finance/Investments. Peter began his career at Shearson Lehman Brothers where he quickly became one of the firms' top brokers. Peter graduated from the University of Southern Alabama in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management.
Called "The Next Andrew Carnegie" by Success Magazine in 1992, Peter augments his career with a number of philanthropic activities. Recently, he created The Janssen Foundation, an organization that makes donations to established charities, especially those benefiting children. He is an advocate of peak performance training and practices a variety of success principles every day.