Charles Messman, President

contact: 323.468.2300


Charles Messman is one of the founding partners of the MKR Group, Inc., which he co-founded in July of 1999 with Todd Kehrli. Charles brings over 11 years of Wall Street experience with a unique combination of institutional sales, investment banking and investor relations experience. Over the past 6 years Charles has specialized in working with micro-Cap and small-Cap companies providing investor relations counsel, strategy, and financing alternatives. Over the past 11 years Charles has represented over 40 companies with market-caps ranging from $10 million to $2.5 billion. Charles is well known in the small-cap universe for having a strong marketing presence throughout many diverse industries. While with MKR, Charles has assisted his client companies in raising over $250 million in capital, through both buy-side and sell-side introductions.

Prior to forming MKR, Charles was employed by the investment bank of C.E. Unterberg Towbin, where he was part of the firm's institutional sales force. Prior to Unterberg, Charles worked for the investor relations firm, Morgen-Walke Associates, Inc. While at Morgen-Walke he worked with over 50 accounts in many different industries, often specializing in the representation of telecommunications-related organizations. Charles also ran the West Coast Marketing program of Morgen-Walke, assisting companies ranging in size from $10 million to $8 billion in market capitalization with setting up buy-side roadshows. Charles holds a BA degree in Economics from Iowa State University.






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