David Batista

Senior Managing Director

David Batista has over 30 years of diversified capital markets experience as a principal investor, trader and investment banker, and founded Viriathus in 2007.

Prior to founding Viriathus, he was a Managing Director at HPC Capital Management and was responsible for their New York Private Capital Markets activities.

Previous to his work at HPC Capital, he was a Vice President of NASDAQ trading at SoundView Technology Group, a technology-focused research and trading boutique based in Old Greenwich Connecticut. While at SoundView, he was initially responsible for making markets in the semiconductor and semiconductor capital equipment sectors and later led SoundView's efforts in non-tech trading by assuming responsibility for the airline, alternative energy, retail, restaurant, and post-secondary education sectors.

David also spent three years as a senior NASDAQ trader at JW Charles Securities and its successor JW Genesis Securities in Boca Raton Florida. While at JW, he was largely responsible for the firm's entry into the institutional equities trading arena by leveraging their substantial retail equities order flow.

He began his professional career with Lehman Brothers in New York initially as an investment banking analyst where he worked on numerous mergers & acquisitions and corporate financing activities, and subsequently began his trading career on Lehman's NASDAQ desk.

He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with a concentration in finance and a Certificate in international marketing from C.W. Post College.