Mr Batista has 29 years of diversified capital markets experience as a principal investor, trader, and investment banker. In 2007, he founded Viriathus which is a boutique global financial services organization operating from Geneva, Miami, New York and Sydney that focuses primarily on merchant banking, financial advisory, and equity research. Prior to founding Viriathus Capital, he was a Managing Director at HPC Capital Management and was responsible for their New York private capital markets activities where he also established the firms Australia/ New Zealand cross-border practice, while also serving as the head of trading for HPCs affiliate fund - PEF Advisors. Previous to his work at HPC Capital, he was a Vice President of NASDAQ trading at SoundView Technology Group, a technology-focused research and trading boutique based in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. He also spent three years as a senior NASDAQ trader at JW Charles Securities and its successor JW Genesis Securities in Boca Raton Florida. Mr Batista began his professional career with Lehman Brothers in New York, initially as an analyst where he worked on numerous mergers & acquisitions and corporate financing activities, and subsequently began his trading career on Lehmans NASDAQ desk.
