TODD D. WILSON, MANAGING DIRECTOR
Biography: Todd D. Wilson is a Managing Director at RA Capital Advisors. Since joining the RA Capital Advisors team in 2002, Mr. Wilson has had broad responsibility for mergers, acquisitions, financings and IPO advisory assignments across a wide range of industries and has advised on more than $3.0 billion in financial advisory assignments.
Prior to joining RA Capital Advisors and its predecessors, Mr. Wilson was a vice president in the Investment Banking group at Thomas Weisel Partners in London and New York, focused on providing strategic advisory services and raising capital for growth companies primarily in the technology industry. He also brings significant international experience to the firm from his earlier work at SG Cowen in London, where he specialized in public equity offerings, cross-border financial advisory assignments and helped to establish the firm's London office and European Investment Banking group.
Mr. Wilson began his investment banking career as a financial analyst at SG Cowen in San Francisco. He earned his bachelor's degree in business management with an emphasis in finance from Brigham Young University in 1995.
KURT K. WICKHAM, MANAGING DIRECTOR
Biography: Kurt K. Wickham joined Relational Advisors, the predecessor to RA Capital Advisors, in 2003 after serving more than six years in the New York-based Mergers and Acquisitions Group of Credit Suisse First Boston. He brings expertise in a number of industries, among them consumer products, telecommunications, general industrials and aerospace and defense, to his work at RA Capital Advisors; as well as significant international experience gained as a cross-border specialist at CSFB.
Earlier, Mr. Wickham was a member of Ernst & Young's M&A Due Diligence group based in Dallas and Chicago, and an auditor with the accounting firm's Consumer Products and Entrepreneurial Services Groups in Dallas.
Mr. Wickham earned bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting and an international certificate from Brigham Young University in 1995. He is a Certified Public Accountant and an FINRA-registered securities representative.
BILL VANDEWEGHE, MANAGING DIRECTOR
Biography: Bill VanDeWeghe joined RA Capital Advisors in January 2006. Bill heads the firm’s defense industry team developing strategies for clients and executing all facets of M&A transactions and financings. Bill was previously a senior shareholder with a law firm, Klinedinst PC. During the 15 years that he practiced law, Bill worked with a broad variety of corporations throughout southern California, advising executives and business leaders on numerous issues involving their companies. Bill has a deep understanding of the challenges service providers and manufacturers face relating to contract disputes, product liability issues, partnership conflicts and overall business operations.
Bill served as an artillery officer on active duty in the Army from 1983-1987, followed by a position commanding a firing battery in the Virginia National Guard. Bill was the Republican Party nominee for U.S. Congress, 53rd Congressional District, in 2002. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Princeton University, and his law degree at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary.
Bill is a member of several defense-related industry groups, and is an FINRA-registered securities representative.