Overview

Gender

male

Mr. Grande serves as Chief Administrative Officer of ZMEP responsible for investor communications and oversight of administrative activity related to the fund.

Mr. Grande, a Senior Vice President with Ziegler, has over 40 years experience advising clients in investment banking, corporate finance, tax matters and investments. He co-founded Grande, Schnoll, & Associates in 1991, a consulting firm in which he focused on problem solving related to debt and equity transactions, and bank relations. This firm became Glaisner, Schillfarth, Grande & Schnoll, Ltd., and then merged into a subsidiary of The Ziegler Companies, Inc.

The ZMEP management team brings a broad range of expertise in medical device development, commercialization of new medical technologies and financial management of venture-backed companies to each portfolio investment. ZMEP managers have demonstrated significant access to the marketplace for new medical device technology as evidenced by two companies advised by ZMEP managers receiving Wall Street Journal Global Technology Innovation Awards in 2004.