Managing Principal
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Phone: 612-338-6065 |
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Fax: 612-338-9098 |
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Sima is a founder and Managing Principal of Aethlon Capital, a private investment bank that offers a broad range of financing, M&A and strategic advisory services. She has over 20 years experience in financial markets – raising in excess of $400 million in private equity capital. In addition to equity capital raising activities, Sima provides advice on corporate partnering and strategic alliances. She also assists clients in building their management teams and Board of Directors.
She founded and was President of Griffith Levi Capital, an investment bank she formed in 1989. Previously, Sima was Vice president of D. F. King & Co., Inc., a Wall Street firm specializing in investor relations, proxy solicitation, and merger related advisory services.
Sima was the recipient of the National Association of Women Business Owners (Minnesota chapter) 2007 “Luminary Award” and the 2005 Women on Boards “Not for Profit” Director of the Year. She received the National Association of Women Business Owners Vision award and “Finance and Commerce” newspaper named Sima one of the “Top Women in Finance” for 2003. “The Business Journal” selected her as one of the Twin Cities "Women to Watch" in 2002.
Sima is currently on the Board of Children’s Hospitals and Clinics, the largest pediatric health care organization in the Upper-Midwest. She is also on the Board of the Minneapolis Foundation, a statewide center for philanthropy and, on the Board of Advisors of PACER, a non-profit organization serving families of children and young adults with disabilities. Sima is a Board member of the Minnesota’s Women’s Economic Roundtable a forum for high-profile women leaders. She served on the Board of Governors of the Children's Theater Company, one of the world's foremost theaters for young people and the Board of Directors of the Investor Relations Section of the Public Relations Society of America. Sima also served as Co-Chair of Women-to-Women, an investment group dedicated to helping finance women-owned businesses.
Ms. Griffith has been featured in the "Star Tribune," "St. Paul Pioneer Press," “TwinCities Business Monthly,” "Minneapolis, St. Paul Business Journal," and “Upsize” magazine, and has spoken before various groups on issues and trends in venture capital. She served as a judge for the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Minnesota Cup, a statewide contest for Minnesota’s newest and most innovative business ideas and was also a judge for the 2003 and 2004 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.
She is a graduate of Amherst College and has served as Vice President of the Amherst Alumni Association of Minnesota. Sima is a registered Principal with FINRA and holds Series 7, 24, and 63 licenses. |
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