Company Profile | Executive Management
Jacob Eisen, President
Jacob Eisen is an experienced entrepreneur in the investment industry. Early in his career he founded an online investment newsletter service that focused on undervalued technology companies. He also served as Vice President for a 26-year old investor relations agency based in Chicago.
Eisen was a partner at one of the largest operators of Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) in the Midwest. He managed the company's business development efforts and built a network of over one hundred distributors in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Additionally, he negotiated long-term business relationships with publicly traded community banks with over $5 billion of assets.
He is the visionary behind Capital Insight Partners and has a keen understanding of the capital markets and investor relations strategy pertaining to small cap public companies.
Eisen has a B.A. from DePaul University in Chicago. He is a member of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) and has several NASD securities licenses. Eisen is an Eagle Scout and Lifetime Member of the National Eagle Scout Association. He is also completing an M.S. in Leadership and Business Ethics from Duquesne University.
Tad Gage, Executive Vice President
Tad Gage brings to clients more than 25 years of experience in investor outreach, financial and crisis communications, and management consulting, and investor relations. Before entering the investor relations field, Gage was a financial journalist and columnist for publications like The New York Times, Cashflow Magazine and Advertising Age.
Gage has managed hundreds of client relationships, serving as primary counselor and advisor, as well as the clients' link to appropriate contacts throughout the investing community, including portfolio and hedge fund managers, buy-side and sell-side analysts, venture and private equity firms, stock brokers, investment advisors and influential high net worth individuals. He has worked with many clients to help identify hidden value and communicate their most important financial value drivers, with messages tailored to specific active investor styles - value, earnings growth, dividend and reinvestment and more.
He has worked with clients from a broad range of industries - manufacturing, services, transportation, financial services, pharma, electronics, and information technology. He develops concise, specialized communications that lay out for investors how a company plans to make money and generate more cash through margin expansion, deploying capital efficiently, managing capital expenditures, etc. His experience generating messaging using a variety of tools, from news releases, corporate fact sheets and presentations to online investor forums and video conferencing enable him to customize optimal outreach efforts for every client.
"There is nothing more powerful than combining the best of personal contact with clients and investors with the latest technological capabilities that facilitate high quality communications with individual investors," says Gage.
His experience including several years as manager of financial communications for Santa Fe Pacific Corporation and later Santa Fe Railway, handling shareholder relations, and business and financial media outreach. He was a senior vice president and consultant with the Financial Relations Board (at the time, the world's largest financial communications firm) and The Investor Relations Company. He served for numerous years as senior contributing editor and corporate financing columnist for Corporate Cashflow magazine, an international publication for corporate treasury managers. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master's of Science from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Mark L. Rosenberg, General Counsel
Mark Rosenberg brings more than 30 years of business and legal experience. He specializes in corporate law, taxation, securities and litigation. He received his law degree from Harvard University and his L.L.M from Georgetown University in taxation law. Mark graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A., high distinction.
Prior to entering private practice Mark served as Deputy Assistant General Counsel for Legislation at the Federal Trade Commission, as Counsel for the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Energy and Commerce at U.S. House of Representatives, and as Senior Attorney at the Bureau of Competition (Energy Section) for the Federal Trade Commission.
He's a member of the Bar in the District of Columbia and Maryland, and has held numerous positions on Bar Association councils.