David Moore Victor Barnes
Senior Managing Director
JD Merit & Company
Investment Banking

David Moore Victor Barnes’ finance career spans 35 years and covers bulge-bracket investment banking, middle market investment banking, private equity principal investing and corporate strategic planning/M&A/corporate development. Barnes began his career in finance as a Financial Analyst at Morgan Stanley's Energy & Petrochemical Group in New York City. Barnes was transferred to Morgan Stanley`s Los Angeles Office and has remained in Los Angeles financing community since 1987.

In 1999 Barnes was recruited to Houlihan Lokey's M&A group. Barnes was later recruited to Cowen & Company to run its West Coast financial sponsor coverage group. In 2020 Barnes joined a friend to help execute an aggressive buy & build strategy for residential PV solar sales and installation companies. In a span of only three months, Barnes helped create Lumio, Inc. the fourth largest solar sales and installation company in the United States with EBITDA in excess of $45 million.