Meet Our Team

Pierre Mechen is Managing Partner of Vesselbridge Capital, where he leads the firm’s corporate finance advisory activities across capital raising, cross-border M&A, and strategic transactions in private and public markets. He advises founders, shareholders, and management teams on capital strategy, transaction positioning, and execution across complex and cross-border situations.

At Vesselbridge, Pierre leads transaction structuring and strategic positioning, working directly with senior banking, legal, and exchange counterparts on institutional-grade mandates. His work is centred on disciplined preparation, institutional investor engagement, and outcome-oriented advisory across the full corporate lifecycle through to liquidity events and exit.

Pierre is a Registered Representative of GT Securities, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC.

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Mr. Tan was most recently Co-CEO and responsible for the development of the corporate finance and Global Capital Markets businesses of a Chinese securities firm in Hong Kong. He has over three decades of investment banking experience in New York and in Asia, and prior to joining Oriental Patron, he was a Corporate Finance, Capital Markets and M&A professional at Citibank, N.A., Goldman Sachs & Co., ING Barings, Salomon Smith Barney, HSBC Investment Bank, Rothschild (H.K.), Oppenheimer and Shanxi Securities International, a Chinese government-owned securities firm, all playing leading roles in investment banking and relationship management. He successfully led M&A sell-side and buy-side deals, IPOs and growth capital fundraising in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia (Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam), as well as the US, Australia and New Zealand.

In the last decade, as CEO or Asia Head of Oppenheimer and two Chinese securities firms, he led VC and growth capital fundraising efforts for fintech, AI, IoT, digital health and healthcare startups from the US into Asian investors, and those from Asia into US and Canadian investors.

Mr. Tan holds a Master of Business Administration degree with distinction (Arjay Miller Scholar) from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was also the recipient of the Deloitte & Touche Accounting Award.

Yasir Hassan is a seasoned entrepreneur and investor with over 20 years' experience at the intersection of data, technology, and life sciences. As Founder of Health iQ, he built and scaled a leading UK-based real-world evidence research and technology business, taking it from inception to exit. Following its acquisition by CorEvitas, he joined as Chief Product Officer, serving on the Board and M&A committee as the company grew into a global RWE platform before its $1 billion sale to Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2023.

This blend of scientific rigour and commercial acumen is central to what Yasir brings as an advisor. He has led commercial strategy across the full spectrum, from enterprise sales and business development through to M&A and has supported market access programmes for some of the most significant therapeutic launches of the past two decades, spanning PCSK9 inhibitors, CAR-T therapies, checkpoint inhibitors, and oral GLP-1s, among others.

Yasir now serves as Venture Partner at Y-Innovations, a leading US-based life sciences investor, and is Founder of Beaufort Advisory, supporting biotech and med-tech companies with investment strategy and fundraising across the UK, US, and Saudi Arabia.

As Board Advisor for Life Sciences at Vesselbridge Capital, Yasir offers a rare combination of deep scientific familiarity, hands-on founder experience, and sophisticated buy- and sell-side investment expertise, making him a distinctive asset to Vesselbridge's life sciences clients navigating capital formation, M&A, and strategic transactions.

Marcus serves as the Managing Director of U.S. Capital Markets for Vesselbridge Capital, supporting M&A advisory, corporate advisory, U.S. capital markets strategy and capital raising engagements. He is a versatile investment banking executive, known for delivering shareholder value to Fortune 500 companies and private enterprises through M&A, joint ventures, recapitalizations, strategic planning and C-suite / Board collaboration. Marcus is broadly experienced in directing transactional campaigns for both U.S.-based and international clients across a diverse range of industries, including healthcare, technology, real estate, manufacturing and miscellaneous services.

Over the course of his career, Marcus has successfully executed over 50 M&A, joint venture and recapitalization transactions, collectively valued at nearly $1.7 billion. This includes both buy-side and sell-side mandates for corporate consolidators, private equity groups and growth-stage companies. In 2020, while serving as the V.P. of Corporate Development for a publicly-traded automotive parts manufacturing company, Marcus executed the largest acquisition in the company’s history – a transaction valued at $340 million.
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Marcus holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Tennessee and later received his MBA with honors from Lipscomb University in Tennessee. In 2011, he earned his designation as a Certified M&A Advisor from the Alliance of M&A Advisors (AM&AA) via his executive studies at Pepperdine University in California.

Mr. Landzberg has more than three decades of experience in distressed and special situations investing, restructuring, capital raising and M&A, including senior roles at Barclays Capital, J.P. Morgan, Lazard Frères, Advent Capital Management and Bennett Management. Over his career he has led debt raises, recapitalizations and restructurings totaling into the billions of dollars, closed over $100 million of equity raises for middle-market companies, and bought or sold businesses with a combined transaction value exceeding $1 billion.

At Barclays Capital, he founded and ran the U.S. Distressed and Special Situations Proprietary Portfolio, building a global team of more than 20 professionals and growing it to approximately $2 billion of invested capital, with cumulative annualized returns in the low 20 percent range over its life. He went on to serve as Managing Director and Portfolio Manager of the Credit Opportunities Fund at Advent Capital Management, having earlier led restructuring and workout negotiations with troubled companies in J.P. Morgan’s Special Loan Group. He has since advised boards, owners and investors on capital raising, recapitalizations and exits, and served as CFO to dozens of companies across a broad range of sectors.

Mr. Landzberg holds an MBA in Finance and International Business from Columbia Business School, where he graduated with Dean’s Honors, and a BA in Economics, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Responsible for investor relations and due diligence support across active mandates, including data room management and transaction execution. Antonis has extensive experience in sell-side and buy-side M&A, IPOs, and private placements. He has deep expertise in financial modelling, valuation, and market analysis. He is also a senior Advisor at a family office looking at equity investments and alternative asset managers with a particular focus on Technology.

Graham is a Senior Advisor to Vesselbridge Capital, supporting capital markets strategy, corporate advisory, and capital raising engagements.

He brings over 30 years of experience across global investment banking and alternative asset management, having held roles as an investment strategist and proprietary trader in Hong Kong and London. He later founded, managed, and successfully exited a high-performing hedge fund and advisory platform.

Graham has also served as Chief Investment Strategist and Investment Committee member for UK-based alternative asset managers, advising on portfolio construction, capital allocation, and investor strategy across institutional client bases.

Since 2020, he has been active as a private investor, founder, and strategic advisor to growth-stage businesses, providing guidance on capital raising, positioning, and board-level decision making.

Greg is a Senior U.S. Advisor at Vesselbridge Capital, supporting U.S. capital markets strategy, M&A strategy, corporate advisory, and capital raising engagements. He brings nearly 20 years of experience spanning investment banking, private equity, corporate development, and corporate strategy, with a track record of identifying strategic opportunities, building executive relationships, and helping organizations accelerate growth.

Greg has worked extensively with founder-led businesses, private equity sponsors, and strategic acquirers across a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, distribution, business services, as well as industrials and has advised founders, investors, and management teams on strategic growth and capital allocation initiatives. His experience covers the full transaction lifecycle, from origination, target identification, and valuation through due diligence, execution, and post-acquisition integration.
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He previously served as Director at a U.S. based investment bank, oversaw M&A for a ~$1B revenue diversified service organization, ran an out-sourced business development firm, and spent six years as a Principal at a private equity and family office platform where he evaluated more than 2,000 acquisition opportunities. Greg began his career in investment banking at Lincoln International, with international secondments to Frankfurt and London supporting cross-border transactions and post-acquisition integration.
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Greg holds a Bachelor's degree with High Distinction in Finance and Operations Management from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Ken Lerro is a Vice President in Vesselbridge’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice, advising lower middle market companies and private equity firms on sell-side and buy-side transactions in the United States. He brings more than a decade of investment banking experience and has worked on over 30 completed transactions across a range of industrial and services sectors.

Before joining Vesselbridge, Ken spent nearly nine years at Clarke Advisors, a lower middle market investment bank recognised during his tenure among the Top 20 lower middle market investment banks and the Top 50 industrial sell-side M&A advisors. Alongside his advisory work, he has invested as a principal in several private transactions, which gives him a practical understanding of how buyers and investors approach valuation, diligence and deal structure.

Ken began his career as an investment advisor at Jeffrey Matthews Financial Group, focusing on municipal bonds, and later owned and operated a private business for over a decade, giving him first-hand perspective on the decisions owners face when preparing for a transaction. He studied at Rutgers University and is based in the New York metropolitan area.

Grant Fagan is a Senior Advisor to Vesselbridge Capital, supporting capital markets, M&A, and complex strategic finance transactions globally. Over a 35+ year career, he has advised boards, financial sponsors, and executive teams on large-scale debt and equity financings, restructurings, and corporate transactions, contributing to $50+ billion in capital raised.

He previously held senior roles across Deloitte and leading international investment banks including Barclays, ABN Amro, Rand Merchant Bank, and Nedcor Capital, and has founded and scaled multiple advisory and investment platforms. Grant brings board-level judgment and hands-on execution experience across growth, turnaround, and capital formation mandates.

León Thompson-Salazar is Head of Investor Relations at VesselBridge Capital, overseeing the firm’s relationships with family offices, private equity firms, institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals across Europe and North America.

He leads the firm’s investor coverage and maintains a detailed understanding of each investor’s mandate, sector focus and allocation criteria. That knowledge shapes how VesselBridge positions its capital raising and M&A mandates, so that each opportunity reaches investors whose requirements it actually fits.

León works alongside the firm’s senior advisory team on live transactions, coordinating investor engagement, managing dialogue between investors and management teams, and supporting processes through to close. He has worked on over $400 million in deal value, with individual transactions typically ranging from $5 million to $100 million.

He places particular emphasis on discretion and on building long-term investor relationships, which he regards as the foundation of successful capital deployment.

Miguel is a Vice President at Vesselbridge Capital, where he oversees the commercial fundability assessment across the firm’s capital raising and strategic advisory mandates. Before any company goes to market, he works directly with management to test the assumptions that drive the financial model, from revenue projections and unit economics to cost structures, sales capacity and the path to profitability. His aim is to ensure that the forecast, the valuation and the use of proceeds tell one consistent story, and that each company enters the market with a commercial case able to withstand institutional due diligence.

He brings more than a decade of senior commercial experience, much of it spent helping growing businesses build and scale their teams. That background gives him a practical read on what it costs to hire, ramp and retain revenue-generating staff, which is often the largest line in a growth-stage use of proceeds and one of the first areas investors examine closely.

As a senior point of contact for clients, Miguel advises management teams on go-to-market and sales strategy and works with the firm’s investor relations team to shape the investment case presented to prospective investors. He leads the analytical and transaction workstreams on his mandates, including financial and market analysis, the preparation of investor materials and due diligence, and coordinates between clients, investors and professional advisers through to completion.

Victoria is an Associate at Vesselbridge Capital, where she supports the development and management of the firm’s global investor network. She works closely with family offices, private investors and institutional allocators on the firm’s capital raising and strategic advisory mandates, coordinating investor introductions, communication and engagement throughout the transaction process.

Victoria brings over 10 years of experience in asset management and private wealth management, with a particular focus on relationship management for ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families. This background gives her a detailed understanding of how private capital evaluates opportunities, which she applies in aligning client mandates with the priorities of the investors best placed to support them.

Leads the preparation of all investor-facing materials across capital raises and M&A mandates, including Information Memoranda, pitch decks, and supporting transaction documentation. Jovan partners with execution and investor teams to deliver clear, institutional-grade narratives, ensuring materials support informed investor decision-making and efficient transaction execution.

Mary serves as Investor Relations Coordinator for the Asia-Pacific region, supporting investor coverage, qualification, and outreach across active mandates, including investor mapping and pipeline management. She supports execution through structured investor communication, cross-border coordination, and the development of internal systems, including CRM infrastructure and reporting processes that enhance efficiency across APAC transactions.

Kim serves as an Investor Relations Associate, managing investor coverage and engagement across Vesselbridge's active mandates. She leads outreach to the firm's investor network, qualifies and maps investors against live opportunities, and serves as a point of contact through the engagement lifecycle, from initial conversations to due diligence and close. She works alongside the deal teams to position mandates to the right capital, ensuring investors receive timely, accurate insight at every stage of the process.