DAVID M. SYME, ESQ.
A diverse and seasoned group of insurance and legal professionals, covering all the bases.
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR
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Registered Investment Advisor Attorney at Law MBA - Finance David Syme MBA, JD is a licensed California attorney with an active practice focused on real estate and corporate transactions, business counseling and civil litigation.He is a principle of Tartan Capital Advisors LLC and Tartan Fund Management LLC, which provides the hedge fund management for Tartan Funds, LLC. |
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Mr. Syme began his professional and financial services career as a Field Representative for General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC) in 1979 in Emeryville, California; representing GMAC in essentially any activities that cannot be a wide variety of financial activities. He left GMAC to pursue a graduate school; earning both an MBA in Finance and then a Juris Doctorate with concentration in Securities Regulation. In 1986, he earned a real estate license and maintains a current California real estate broker license today. In 1980, Mr. Syme was one of the founders of a technology startup, Marathon Micro. He was a principal in Marathon Micro throughout graduate school and continued to successfully grow the company into a significant company throughout the ‘80s. In 1989, he was retained by Bank of America as a senior consultant to fundamentally overhaul and streamline their worldwide commercial lending operations. In 1996, Mr. Syme was one of three principal founders in BoomBuy, an internet e-commerce startup. BoomBuy received heavy venture capital funding and was successfully sold eight months later to a Red Tag/BoomBuy. In 2000, he was recruited to a Director position at Kaiser Permanente, to help manage the integration of all nine separate Kaiser regions; one of the largest projects ever undertaken by Kaiser. In 2002, he was one of the founders of Commercial MortgageXL, Inc., (CMXL) a commercial real estate funding brokerage firm. CMXL provided funding for multi-million dollar real estate development projects nationally. In 2007, he was a co-founder of Pacific First Corporation, pursuing real estate opportunities emerging from the real estate crash in 2006 – 2008. In 2012, Mr. Syme was one of the early members of Saratoga Group, Inc. a mid-sized real estate investment fund with investors from both foreign and domestic funds, Mr. Syme managed real estate investment operations on behalf of the fund for the greater San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, Mr. Syme was a partner in the law firm Ehrenworth& Syme, Attorneys at Law, (Ehrenworth& Syme) with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Ehrenworth& Syme focuses on real estate transactions, transaction structuring, corporate law and civil business litigation. In 2015, Mr. Syme became the principal in the Syme Law Firm with offices in Orinda, California. Syme Law Firm focuses on real estate transactions, financial structuring, corporate law and civil litigation. In between the above engagements, Mr. Syme provided management consulting services focused on legal, real estate and technology. Mr. Syme is a FINRA licensed Investment Advisor since 2016, and is a principal in Tartan Capital Advisors RIA. Mr. Syme is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley in 1981 and earned a Masters of Business Administration in Finance in 1984. Following business school, he went on to receive a Juris Doctorate degree at University of San Francisco with a focus in Securities Regulation in 1987. |
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