Walter Bembenista

Walter J. Bembenista is a Senior Advisor at Goldmark Advisers, Inc., where his published bio says he is based in New York and focuses on early-stage financings, drawing on legal and tax advisory experience. Goldmark describes itself as a boutique, consultative investment banking firm working on M&A, sale opportunities, growth capital formation, business development, and corporate finance strategy.

Before Goldmark, Bembenista was General Counsel of Living Independently Group, Inc., developer of QuietCare, a wireless sensor and internet-based behavioral monitoring system for assisted living communities. GE Healthcare acquired Living Independently Group on December 1, 2009; GE’s release described QuietCare as a passive remote-monitoring system for senior care.

Earlier, Bembenista was Vice President of Operations at Fastwired, LLC, a business accelerator with investments in mobile sales-force software and internet technologies. He also served as Senior Vice President of Investment Banking at Josephthal & Co., Inc., a NYSE-member investment banking and brokerage firm, where his bio says he worked on private placements and middle-market M&A.

His earlier corporate tax roles included Vice President of Taxes at Associated Dry Goods Corporation, Tri-Star Pictures, and Esquire, Inc., plus International Tax Counsel at Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. He began his career in Coopers & Lybrand’s tax department. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law.

• Focuses on early-stage financings; Goldmark says Bembenista offers clients “the benefit of his extensive legal and tax advisory experience.”
• Relevant founder fit: companies raising growth or early-stage financing where transaction structure, tax/legal issues, or private-placement execution matter.
• Goldmark’s broader client focus is privately held companies with sales of $200 million or less.
• Goldmark’s capital-formation services include senior debt, mezzanine debt, senior debt, non-control growth equity, and control equity.
• Sector fit is strongest where Goldmark says its team has special understanding: media, communications, food & beverage, technology, health care, aerospace, industrials, and entertainment.
• His operating background points especially toward technology and health-care-adjacent businesses, including elder-care monitoring, mobile sales-force software, and internet technologies.