Our Team
A small group of experienced professionals, VonAllmen Capital Partners moves quickly
Three Operating Principals are the only people a seller will be dealing with in reaching a result that ensures a potential acquisition's continued success.
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The two founding principals of VonAllmen Capital Partners, David VonAllmen and Nick Bellon, met when both became members of the Board of Trustees for the charity Nest, which provides zero-interest microloans to individuals in third world countries to help them build self-supporting businesses.
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David VonAllmen
President
Before co-founding VonAllmen Capital Partners, David was a minority owner and member of the Board of Directors of Beauty Alliance. Prior to that, David founded Bushido Productions, a website design firm in Denver, Colorado.
David graduated with degrees in Marketing and Graphic Design from the University of Colorado where he became the only person ever to be Collegiate National Cycling Champion in all three disciplines – road, track, and mountain bike. David also ran three marathons before graduating high school.
David is a Founding member of the Nest Board of Trustees and continues to serve on Nest's financial committee.
Nick Bellon
Principal
Prior to co-founding VonAllmen Capital Partners, Nick was a Principal at BryanMark Financial Group, one of the nation’s top estate planning firms for ultra-affluent clients. There, Nick designed a grass-roots marketing system that was the driving force behind making BryanMark the fastest growing privately held company in St. Louis is 2008. In 2007 the St. Louis Business Journal selected Nick as one of its “30 Under 30” top professionals.
Nick is also a member of the Million Dollar Round Table, an association of the top financial service professionals in the country. At age 26, he became one of the youngest professionals ever to obtain the MDRT’s highest honor of “Top of the Table,” and award that recognizes the top 0.5% of financial professionals in the life insurance industry.
In addition to Nest, Nick serves on the Board of Directors for the Pujols Family Foundation, founded by Los Angeles Angels baseball player Albert Pujols and focusing on supporting people with Down syndrome as well as impoverished children in Pujols’ home country of the Dominican Republic.
Ricky Vigil
Principal
Before joining the VCP team, Ricky served as Chief Operating Officer at Twain Financial Partners, a full-service specialty finance firm with $6 billion in assets under management providing a full range of capital needs to real estate and renewable energy developments throughout the United States. Prior to that, Ricky served as Vice President and CFO of Maryville Consulting Group, where he was responsible for legal, tax compliance, human resources, finance, accounting and internal information technology. He began his career with RubinBrown, LLP where he was a manager and member of the firm’s manufacturing & distribution and real estate groups.
Ricky received his MA and BA degrees in Accounting with a minor in Spanish from Truman State University. He is a CPA (inactive) and Chartered Global Management Accountant.
Ricky is involved within the St. Louis community as a current member of both the Nurses for Newborns Board of Directors and Regional Business Council’s Young Professionals Network Steering Committee . Ricky also formerly served as the Board Chair for the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Saint Louis.
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