Micheal Smith, Managing Director
Michael Smith, CEO of Deep Pool Ventures and Managing Director of Beech Hill Securities (FINRA/SEC), runs Beech Hill’s private shares platform. He has arranged over $1 billion of private securities transactions, including pre-IPO shares of Lyft, Wish, Bytedance and Didi, among others.
Michael is a 30-year veteran of the private securities markets. A pioneer of the secondary bank loan market at Citibank, and later partner running secondary trading and portfolio management in emerging markets debt for Drexel Burnham Lambert in the 1980's. Subsequently managed the first private hedge fund portfolio dedicated to emerging markets debt instruments. He was one of the first private investors in reopened Eastern European stock exchanges (post Berlin Wall). He ran special situations and private securities transactions at Lazard.
Micheal Smith is an avid soccer fan and former top-flight amateur player. He is a contributor to various non-profit organizations.