Perry Theoharis
President &
Chief Compliance Officer 

Mr. Theoharis has served as president of EMD Financial since its inception in 2011. Since then, he has raised over $500 million for EMD Financial transactions exclusively.  Mr. Theoharis graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in finance and holds an exempt market dealers license.


John Karagiannidis
 Dealing Representative  

Mr. Karagiannidis has been involved in over 300 transactions involving emerging private and public companies with a total value in excess of $2 billion.  Prior to EMD Financial, Mr. Karagiannidis worked at Marquest Capital Markets, Industrial Alliance Securities and Desjardins Securities. Mr. Karagiannidis is an MBA graduate of the Ivey Business School (University of Western Ontario), LL.B from the University of Montréal and a member of the Québec Bar Association.


Mark MacIsaac
 Dealing Representative 

Mr. MacIsaac is a recently retired IIROC Licensed Investment Advisor with 24 years of experience managing client assets, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETF’s and private placements. Prior to EMD Financial, Mr. MacIsaac has worked at client-focused independent investment firms such as Midland Walwyn, Merrill Lynch, Canaccord Capital and Wellington West, concluding his career at Laurentian Bank Securities. Mr. MacIsaac graduated from Concordia University in Political Science.


Yves Usereau
Dealing Representative 

 Mr. Usereau has worked as a tax expert for individuals for more than 20 years as well as in major law firms including KPMG, RCGT and Andersen. He has also taught finance and taxation at the HEC and CQFF (Québec Taxation Training Center) for the Ordre des CA du Québec. His particular expertise in taxation and his passion for resource-based financial research  position him to identify compelling private placement opportunities.


Solomon elimimian
Dealing Representative 

Mr. Elimimian is an entrepreneur and investor. He was the founder of 56 Acquisitions Inc. (now Snowy Owl Gold Corp., listed on the CSE under “SNOW”), and remains a director of Snowy Owl Gold Corp. Mr. Elimimian is a Canadian Football League (CFL) veteran and current president of the CFL Players’ Association. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Hawaii.


Daniel Custock
Dealing Representative 
Daniel Custock is a dealing representative based out of the Vancouver, BC office of EMD Financial.  Prior to joining EMD Financial, Mr. Custock was a founder and CEO of Dragon Dynamic Cyber Security Corporation (now CanX CBD Processing Corp), and a founder and CEO of Newscope Capital Corporation (now PharmaTher Holdings Ltd. CSE: PHRM.CN).  Mr. Custock has over 33 years of experience as a businessman in land and property acquisitions, divestiture and financing.  In addition, he was a petroleum landman for over 25 years and later a realtor.  He currently serves as a director and CEO of Intensity Capital Corporation, a private venture capital firm.  Mr. Custock attended the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.


Pawel Staniec
 Associate
 
Mr. Staniec graduated from ZST Grudziadz, Computer Science Technical School in Poland with a diploma of information technology. He has previously served as a QA Analyst for Babel and Bug Tracker. Mr. Staniec provides administrative support to the EMD team.