Jon Walls of Azurest Partners, Joins Stonehaven’s Affiliate Platform.

We are excited to announce that Jon Walls, Managing Director of Azurest Partners, has joined as an Affiliate Partner.

Mr. Jon C. Walls is a Managing Director at Azurest Partners.

Azurest Partners is an investment banking and advisory services firm focused on providing strategic and financial expertise in key economic sectors that promote high impact business opportunities. In the United States, these include technology, media, telecommunications, financial services, real estate, business services and selected other emerging sectors. 

Mr. Walls possesses over 30 years of experience with Fortune 500 companies and small to mid-sized businesses. Mr. Walls began his career at Lehman Brothers where he served as a Senior Vice President of Investment Banking until 2000 with an industry specialization in Financial Institutions. While at Lehman, he developed his deep expertise in delivering complex M&A, equity and fixed income solutions to sophisticated clients. Over a span of eight years, he successfully executed more than 30 transactions totalling over $16 billion in mergers and acquisitions and over $5 billion in debt and equity financings.

Mr. Walls’ most recent experiences include his role as CFO of an early stage investor-backed B2B healthcare finance and analytics company. Prior to that, he spent over 8 years leading a professional staff as President of an insurance brokerage he acquired with private equity and property management partners. During that time, he turned around the sales and overall financial performance of the company while overhauling the company’s technology infrastructure and its financial strategy. In addition, for more than ten years, Mr. Walls was the instructor of S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Fundamentals of Bank Valuation, a seminar he designed which was offered throughout the country. Mr. Walls has also held senior leadership roles at a mortgage bank and a technology start-up. 

Mr. Walls holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a JD from Harvard Law School (Cum Laude) and a BA from Yale University.

Mr. Walls currently holds SIE, series 63 and 79 registrations with FINRA.