David Weild IV

Founder, Chairman & CEO
Weild & Co. Inc

David Weild IV is an American investment banker, financial commentator and former Vice Chairman of NASDAQ. He is currently the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Weild & Co. Inc., parent company of the investment banking firm Weild Capital, LLC. Weild is also known as the "father" of the JOBS Act, and involved in policy discussions including drafting legislation for the US Congress.

Weild graduated from Hotchkiss School preparatory in 1974, then went on to earn a B.A. from Wesleyan and an M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business.

Weild held senior management roles at Prudential Securities during the initial 14 years of his career. In the mid-1990s, he served as head of global equity transactions. In 1999, he transitioned from leading the firm’s technology investment banking business to oversee PrudentialSecurities.com and later managed customer-facing internet services within Prudential Financial.

He subsequently joined NASDAQ, where he served as executive vice president for corporate clients and later as vice chairman. He left the organization in July 2003 to become CEO of the National Research Exchange. He later founded Capital Markets Advisory Partners and simultaneously led the Capital Markets Group of Grant Thornton LLP. Capital Markets Advisory Partners was later renamed Weild & Co. Holdings.

In December 2002, he was elected as Chairman Emeritus of Tuesday’s Children, a charity organization which supports families affected by 9/11 and US military families that lost a family member.