Scura, Rise and Partners, LLC - Team
Mr. Scura is a founding partner of SRP. Prior to joining SRP, Mr. Scura held a series of positions with Prudential Securities from 1986 to 2000 including, most recently, Executive Vice President and head of global investment banking and Vice Chairman and head of private equity activities. From 1988 to 1993, Mr. Scura was Co-Head of Prudential’s Mortgage and Asset-Backed Securities Group which included sales, trading, structuring, research and banking for all structured products and financial institutions. During his tenure as head of this Group, Prudential was active in advising the FDIC in matters relating to the resolution of several insured depositories. Mr. Scura was a member of the firm’s Operating Council. He was a voting member of the Investment Committee of four separate private equity funds and Prudential Securities’ merchant banking fund, Prudential Bache Interfunding. Mr. Scura began his professional career with J.P. Morgan & Co. in 1975 where he spent 11 years in both New York and London. Mr. Scura received an A.B. degree in Economics from Villanova University and an M.B.A. degree in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Scura is a trustee of the Seton Hall Preparatory School, sat on the Business School’s Advisory Board at Villanova University and was an elected member of the Board of Education in Essex Fells, New Jersey. Mr. Scura also started and successfully ran a specialty finance company, Plymouth Financial Company, Inc. that was sold to Bear Stearns and Company in 2006. He sits on several private company boards.
