Accomplished Financial Services Executive
Gary Pagar has spent more than 25 years in investment banking. Currently, Mr. Pagar serves as a Managing Director for the international merchant bank, Cappello Group, Inc., based in Santa Monica, California. In this capacity, Gary Pagar works with a team that provides M&A advisory services as well as securing financing for companies across a broad range of industries. Mr. Pagar and his colleagues at Cappello Group offer services including private placements of debt and equity, strategic advice, financial restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions from both the sell and buy sides.
Prior to joining Cappello Group, Gary Pagar served as a Managing Director at the New York investment bank, Westwood Capital LLC, and as a Managing Director at Profile Media Group. For nearly eight years, Gary Pagar served as the Chairman of MedFirst Healthcare, Inc., a holding company for health care industry acquisitions that was financed by the principal investment arm of Goldman Sachs. At MedFirst, Mr Pagar helped to grow the company from a start-up to $100 million per year in revenue.
Mr Pagar was previously a recipient of Crain’s New York Business journal’s first “40 Under 40” award and a national finalist for the Inc. Magazine/Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” award. Mr Pagar has also served two terms on the Trustees’ Council of the University of Rochester and was a founder and board member of Sail For Liberty’s Children, a non-profit venture that has taken over 7000 New York City children in summer school on motivational sailing trips in New York harbor.
Prior to joining Cappello Group, Gary Pagar served as a Managing Director at the New York investment bank, Westwood Capital LLC, and as a Managing Director at Profile Media Group. For nearly eight years, Gary Pagar served as the Chairman of MedFirst Healthcare, Inc., a holding company for health care industry acquisitions that was financed by the principal investment arm of Goldman Sachs. At MedFirst, Mr Pagar helped to grow the company from a start-up to $100 million per year in revenue.
Mr Pagar was previously a recipient of Crain’s New York Business journal’s first “40 Under 40” award and a national finalist for the Inc. Magazine/Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” award. Mr Pagar has also served two terms on the Trustees’ Council of the University of Rochester and was a founder and board member of Sail For Liberty’s Children, a non-profit venture that has taken over 7000 New York City children in summer school on motivational sailing trips in New York harbor.