Meet David Bonrouhi:

David Bonrouhi has over 20 years of investment banking and private equity experience. David began his investment banking career at Merrill Lynch in New York in the mid 1990’s where he worked on a number of M&A transactions, IPOs, private placements, high yield debt offerings and leveraged loan transactions in the media and telecom industries. David later worked in private equity and venture capital for UnionBanCal Equities, where he co-managed Union Bank’s $200 million portfolio of private equity investments in middle market companies in a wide range of industries, including consumer products, industrial manufacturing, business services, technology/internet/new media, telecom, publishing, radio and TV broadcasting, towers, energy and real estate. In this capacity, David was a Board member of several portfolio companies. David also founded a financial consulting firm, Blue Line Capital, and he previously spent approximately two years as a VP with Hunter Chase, a real estate private equity firm. 

David began his career as a CPA and tax consultant with Price Waterhouse in New York. David holds Series 7, 63 and 79 licenses with Fallbrook Capital Securities Corporation (Calabasas Capital is a dba of Fallbrook Capital). David is a licensed California CPA (inactive) and a licensed California real estate broker. 

David has an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurial Studies from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management; and a Masters in Tax and a B.S. in Accounting from Miami of Ohio. David is active in the Los Angeles community with such organizations as Temple Isaiah, Gold Coast Business Forum, the Anderson Private Equity Alumni Association, Provisors, Bruin Professionals, the California Restaurant Association, and the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG). David is on the Board of the 101 Corridor Chapter of ACG, where he also serves as Sponsorship Chairman. In both 2016 and 2017, David was honored by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal which included him in their list of the Valley 200: The Most Influential Leaders in the Valley (which includes the San Fernando, Conejo, Santa Clarita, Simi and Antelope valleys in Southern California). 

David is originally from Buffalo, NY and currently lives in Marina Del Rey with his wife and two sons.