Lisa McCarthy Interviews Crowdsouring Leader Bo Brustkern of Arcstone Equity Research

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Bo Brustkern acts as the Managing Director of Arcstone Partners. He also serves as the enterprise’s founder. Before he established the Arcstone Partners group, Bo served as an investment expert in the Silicon Valley agency of Rustic Canyon Partners, which was a firm focused on technology-related projects and acts as a private equity organization. He also worked on the BACE Industries, which was a mid-market private equity enterprise.

Recently, Bo also worked as a senior analyst in Wellsford Residential Property Trust wherein he worked on the field of acquisitions and development for the fifth biggest residential REIT nationwide. Bo has attained a near 20 years of experience in management, execution and origination. Over the span of time wherein he pursued a career as an investment and valuation expert, Bo has accomplished a diverse range of engagements for a wide variety of clients, such as analyses comprising of financial reports, transaction advice, executive financing, litigation support and strategic planning. Bo Brustkern is also a well known Charter affiliate of the Fair Value Forum and acts as an associate for the American Society of Appraisers. Bo achieved his Masters degree in Business Administration with distinction from Anderson School in UCLA, wherein he achieved certification as a Deutschman Venture Fellow, and his Bachelor of Arts in English and Writing at Dartmouth College.

Now that we’ve discussed the managing director, let’s tackle the company he is managing. Arcstone Equity Research is leading a rapid pace on the secondary direct marketplace by rendering access to developed transparency of data between both parties, buyer and seller, of private securities and unveiling the opportunities of private marketplaces, such as Second Market and Gate Technologies.

Business management and present day investors are faced with the tough obstacle of locked up value in illiquid firms and enterprises. The previous elevation in direct secondary projects has marked the complexities linked with selling an interest on a private firm before exiting. This is what the company of Bo aims to address. With Arcstone rendering equity studies and researches to assist in secondary transaction processes, all aspects are rapidly changing and evolving. Through leveraging years of research and experience for both the acquisition of buy and sell research of public firms and the best in private firm analyses, Arcstone attempts to address the distinct obstacles linked with the appraisal of private firms. The company’s team offers transparency and clarity for in-depth research studies and reports as well as coverage currently being employed.

The company’s operations are also associated with the rapidly growing industry of crowd funding and crowd sourcing. The process involves the combined cooperation and attention of by individuals who are networking and sourcing in funds and other viable resources altogether, commonly by means of the Internet, to aid the efforts started by other organizations or individuals. The process of crowd funding occurs for a diversity of reasons, ranging from disaster support to citizen journalism and everywhere in between. The process is also used for political advertisement campaigns as well as financially supporting starting companies or small businesses as well as developing complimentary software products.