Biography
Gerald Benjamin

Gerald A. Benjamin, M.S., Senior Managing Partner of International Capital Resources is recognized by entrepreneurs, investors and financial intermediaries and advisors as one of the nation's leading authorities on the business angel and early-stage capital markets.

An innovator, he published the first successful Angel Investor magazine in 1992, and spearheaded the venture conference movement in CA, founding the Northern California Venture Forum in 1989.

He has published eight books on Angel Capital. These include; Finding Your Wings: How to Locate Private Investors to Fund Your Venture, Angel Financing: How to Find and Invest in Private Equity, The Angel Investor's Handbook: How to Profit from Early Stage Investing (US and India), Raising Finance(United Kingdom), Angel Finance(Japan), Angel Financing (China) and Angel Capital (2005 by John Wiley)

Over 50,000 entrepreneurs and investors have attended Mr. Benjamin's seminars on Angel Financing and Angel Investing. These events have been sponsored by over 300 prominent entrepreneurial and investor organizations in the US, including the Los Angeles Venture Association, IBC, IBF, IIR, Morino Institute, StartupSearch2001, Entrepreneur Magazine, NASA, Inc. Magazine, Dept. of Commerce, Harvard Business School Club of Puget Sound, White House Conference on Small Business, the SBA and University of California among others.

Since 1989, he has developed the only pre-qualified nationwide database of high net worth, early-stage, private equity or business angel investors in North America, with over 1,259 accredited investors participating. He has established regional licensees in Seattle, Salt Lake City, Austin, Denver, New York City, St. Louis, Washington, D.C., Boston, Raleigh and Boca Raton. His research on the investment orientation, preferences, and habits of North American investors has been recognized in such publications as; The Wall Street Journal, Time, Barrons, Investors Business Daily, Individual Investor, Venture Capital Journal, Financial Times of London, Medical Economics, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Business Times, Investment Advisor, INC. Magazine, The Denver Post, Barternews and The Journal of Entrepreneurship, Dow Jones News Services, the newsletters of the National Venture Capital Association and the American Entrepreneurs for Economic Growth, a Washington, D.C. organization of over 7,000 middle market companies.

Mr. Benjamin has been an advisor in numerous successful private equity transactions with such companies as; Insomnia's Coffee and Teas, Digimarc Technology (software), Sundance Corp. (services), American Ergonomics (manufacturing), Freeport Telecom (telecommunications), Cortexion (software as a service, Computility (computing services), Inovium (technology enabled services), Burstein Laboratories and Cagan Capital (medical instrumentation and biotechnology), among others.

Prior to founding ICR in 1989, Mr. Benjamin served as a corporate finance advisor, completing over 400 assignments in the US, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe and the Middle East with such companies as: A.E. Staley Manufacturing Co., Abitibi-Price (CN), Aluminum Company of America, Amdahl, Conoco, Crown Zellerbach, DuPont, General Electric, General Foods, General Mills, Lagoven (Venezuela, S.A.), Mars Corporation, Mobil, Moore Business Forms, National Methanol (Saudi Arabia), Philadelphia Electric, Plessey Semiconductors (UK), Raritan River Steel, Rohm and Haas, Security Pacific Bank, SRI, International, Toyota, US Department of Energy, Veterans Administration, W.R Grace and Co., among others.

Mr. Benjamin received his MBA and BA degree in business from the University of San Francisco. Before starting ICR he built successful worldwide consulting firms with professors from Harvard and Stanford Universities.