Mr. Danon Blea is the Managing Member of Blake Street Capital, LLC.

Blake Street Capital is a product-oriented, tactical-mandate-driven boutique advisory firm that provides specialized investment banking and private capital advisory services to closely held, emerging corporate and real estate operating companies and select middle market corporations.

Mr. Blea is a 25+ year investment banking professional focusing on mergers & acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, and real estate, providing specialized financial and strategic advisory services to startups, emerging growth companies (EC/VC), lower middle market corporations, and private real estate platforms.

Mr. Blea has executed regulated transactions at Lehman Brothers, C.E. Unterberg, Towbin and Rauscher, Pierce, Refsnes (now Royal Bank of Canada), and has completed corporate, real estate, and project / municipal-based financing engagements on behalf of senior executives management teams, boards of directors, special committees, investors, trustees, and other stakeholders.
  
Mr. Blea graduated with honors with a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego. He also earned an MBA in Finance & Entrepreneurial Studies from the UCLA Anderson School, where he was a Robert A. Toigo and Dean’s Fellow.

Mr. Blea is a recipient of the New America Alliance JP Morgan Emerging Leader award and was a two-time international representative of USA Basketball.  

Mr. Blea holds the Series 7, 24, 63 and 79 registrations with FINRA.