David Weild is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Weild & Co. and previously served as Vice Chairman of The Nasdaq Stock Market, where he led the Corporate Client Division with responsibility for Nasdaq’s listed companies. A recognized expert on capital markets and capital formation, he is regarded by many as the “Father of the JOBS Act” for co-authoring studies that first identified the long-term structural decline in the IPO and listed company markets. Over his career, he has participated in managing more than 1,000 public equity offering transactions and has testified before Congress, the SEC, the OECD, and the European Commission.