Jonathan Zax

Built, launched and continue to optimize the performance of a company delivering high-value Investor Relations outsourcing, training, executive search, and advisery services to SMEs across a wide range of sectors.

• Play a key role in helping companies prepare for and execute highly successful global IPOs within the commodity and natural resource sectors.
• Deliver international professional certification in Investor Relations practices.
• Facilitate expert training to stakeholders prior to IPOs and deliver powerful strategies to position companies as disruptive forces in competitive markets.
• Succeeded in bringing three exciting new companies into the public equity marketplace through dynamic IPOs.
• Leverage extensive expertise to create/establish the Investor Relations organizations, functions, and procedures for newly listed, state-owned enterprises in the materials and transportation sectors.
• Instrumental in significantly improving value for a host of companies and the investors for each entity with aggregate client market capitalization of nearly USD $4B+.
• Client sectors include media, health care, private equity, natural resources, energy, agriculture, e-commerce, and financial technology.

Acted as a strategic partner to C-suite leaders with full ownership for strategy, execution and management of the Investor Relations function.

• Integrally involved in preparing for and launching the Bank Mandiri IPO by establishing the Bank's Investor Relations functions and programs.

• Orchestrated all international media initiatives that positioned the organization as the top bank across all of Indonesia.

• Relied upon as a key adviser by key stakeholders throughout the global financial community to provide insights and guidance during the tremendous turmoil and challenges of the global financial crisis.

• Helped list the state-owned Bank following the Asian economic crisis.
• Driving force behind a more than ten-fold increase in share price over eight-

year tenure with the Bank.
• Achieved a more than three-fold increase in P/B and P/E ratios

Spearheaded all corporate development initiatives and launched a powerful Investor Relations program that positioned the company as a high-value investment option across all ASEAN markets.

• Succeeded in significantly enhancing overall market perception of future earnings quality, business strategy, and regulatory risks by delivering a comprehensive disclosure to achieve a re-rating of P/E and EV/EBITDA multiples relative to peers.
• Forged and cultivated powerful relationships with financial intermediaries, strategic partners, and internal stakeholders to create synergy across all corporate financial operations including the vital restructuring of a US $120M+ syndicated loan.
• Completed valuation and divestiture of a USD $100M+ subsidiary as well as feasibility studies and business plans for a USD $60M+ joint venture investment.

Anthropology (Cum Laude with High Honors)