Meet Morty
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J. Morton Davis is the owner and Chairman of D.H. Blair Investment Banking Corp., a full-service investment banking and venture capital firm established in 1904, and is the driving force behind the firm’s outstanding performance over the years.
Few people on Wall Street possess Mr. Davis’ breadth and depth of financial experience. Fewer still are as successful.
Over his career, Mr. Davis has helped over 400 start-up and early-stage companies raise more than $3 billion in capital. Over the years, Mr. Davis has funded Nobel prize winners and the developer of the Polio vaccine, among many other leading entrepreneurs and business pioneers in pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, medical devices, and computers. As the majority shareholder in News Communications Inc., Mr. Davis helped start and grow The Hill, a highly successful and renowned daily newspaper and digital media company based in Washington, DC focusing on politics, policy, business, and international relations.
And when Mr. Davis provides entrepreneurs the funds needed to launch or grow their companies—not a year later, not a month later, not even a week later—but the very next day, they are out hiring people and buying capital equipment! That, in turn, generates business and jobs at the supplying companies – indeed true capitalism!
Mr. Davis is the recipient of several prestigious awards and honors, including a tribute by President Ronald Reagan for Mr. Davis’ support of the Creative Arts Rehabilitation Center, the Republican Party’s Distinguished Service Award, the Intrepid Museum’s Freedom Award, and the Synagogue Council of America’s Covenant of Peace Award.
Mr. Davis has served on the Boards of Research! America, Foundation for Future Generations, and the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. He also has served on the Board of Trustees of Yeshiva University and on the Board of its Sy Syms School of Business.
In 2011, the International Center for Autism Research & Education honored Mr. Davis’ lifetime of achievements in a special tribute luncheon in the U.S. Capitol.
In 1971, Mr. Davis and his wife made a gift to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine to endow annual merit-based medical scholarships for needy first-year students.
Over the years, this endowment has grown, and recently, three worthy medical students have been recipients of this generous scholarship.
Again, it was acclaimed by several notable economic scholars and praised by President Ronald Reagan in a tribute to Mr. Davis, whom President Reagan recognized for his long career of hard work and his support of the creative arts.
Mr. Davis has also recently published a book on achieving happiness in life entitled “Happiness Guaranteed or Your Misery Back.”
