John Utendahl

John O. Utendahl is the founding member and Chairman of the various entities that make up the Utendahl Organization, one of the largest minority-owned and managed investment banking organization.

The organization includes five separate entities offering services to both private and public sector institutional investors in asset management, investment banking/underwriting, and various private equity areas.

In the private sector alone, nearly half of all Fortune 200 companies enjoy a relationship as an institutional investor with at least one of the Utendahl Organization’s entities.  Twenty-five percent of those companies have invested in two or more Utendahl affiliates.

Through John’s leadership, product diversification and an extensive and successful track record, the Utendahl Organization has differentiated itself from its peers as the leading institution of its kind in corporate America. 

The organization’s four entities include:

Utendahl Capital Partners (“UCP”), a broker dealer/investment bank

Utendahl Capital Management (“UCM”), a fixed income asset management firm

UrbanAmerica (“UA”), a commercial real estate fund

United Enterprise Fund (“UEF”), a private equity fund

John is also a founding member of Praesidian Capital, LLC, which is the General Partner of Praesidian Capital Investors LP, a mezzanine fund.

John’s career began at Salomon Brothers, after which he was a trading desk manager at Merrill Lynch’s corporate bond department. 

John is currently on the Board of Directors of Family Promise. He has also served as a director on several boards for organizations that were of particular importance to him, both professionally and personally. These board memberships have included the Securities Industry Association (SIA), the US Fund for UNICEF, and Big Brothers/Big Sisters. He holds FINRA series 7 and 24 registrations.

John received his B.S. from Long Island University, and then went on to receive his M.B.A. from Columbia University.