Steve Brozak

Steve Brozak is the Managing Partner and President of WBB Securities, LLC, and the Chairman and CEO of StormBio, Inc. Mr. Brozak has been named a 2013 StarMine "Top Stock Picker" among Pharmaceutical Analysts by the Thomson Reuters Awards for Excellence, and previously was recognized by The Wall Street Journal as "Best on the Street" among Medical Equipment and Supplies financial analysts. Mr. Brozak is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marine Corps. He is now serving a three-year appointment to the Secretary of Navy's Navy and Marine Corps Retiree Council. He also was a Democratic Party congressional candidate in the 2004 election cycle.

Corporate Life
Mr. Brozak is the President and Co-founder of WBB Securities, LLC, an Independent Broker Dealer, Investment Bank and Sell-Side Research firm. WBB Securities focuses on healthcare, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device research and banking. WBB Securities and its analysts are ranked consistently as top performers in research accuracy.

As president of WBB Securities, Mr. Brozak is responsible for the research and investment banking division. He raises funds for public offerings in various healthcare sectors. He has been ranked one of the top analysts of all First Call submitting analysts in all healthcare sectors over the past four years by the StarMine ranking system. In 2010, he was named one of the Top Analysts in the Healthcare Sector for the United States by the Financial Times and StarMine.

Mr. Brozak has specific expertise and interest in human stem cell therapies and biothreat countermeasures, including radiation and highly pathogenic influenza.

He regularly authors articles in peer-reviewed and news publications. Among recent articles are:
 * "Meningitis Outbreak: Restoring Confidence in the Drug Industry" on ABC News October 16, 2012;
 * "A Case for Accelerating Regenerative Medicine" on ABC News, April 12, 2012;
 * "A New American 11/11/11 Day: The Health Care Veterans Deserve" also on ABC News, November 11, 2011;
 * "Fighting Epidemics With Venture Capital", which appeared on the Bloomberg BGov Web site;
 * "Seeking Innovation: Incentive Funding for Biodefense Biotechs", which appeared in the peer-reviewed journal: Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, Volume 8, Number 4, 2010.
 * He also is a co-author of "Long shadow of the stem-cell ruling", an opinion article that appeared in Nature, the International Weekly Journal of Science, Volume 467, 1031–1033 (28 October 2010).

Mr. Brozak is frequently interviewed and quoted by such media sources as the Associated Press, ABC, Barron's, Bloomberg, CNN, Forbes, Dow Jones, Reuters, SmartMoney, TheStreet.com, and The Wall Street Journal. He is co-author of three recent commentaries about the failure of the Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plants and the potential impact on the world, published by ABCNews.com. They include: Fukushima Joins Titanic, Katrina as a Single Word for Disaster, March 16, 2011, Fukushima: A Nuclear Threat to Japan, the U.S. and the World, April 6, 2011 and Fukushima and Nuclear Power: Playing with Fire, April 25, 2011. He also is the author of twelve analytical reports about the threat of pandemic influenza, has written guest editorials and been asked to speak about several issues, including the challenges facing large pharmaceutical companies, the need to restructure the FDA and difficulties facing the U.S. healthcare system.

Mr. Brozak is Chairman and CEO of StormBio, Inc, a development stage biotechnology company focused on the attenuation of Cytokine Storm, specifically in influenza. StormBio is developing therapeutics to minimize the mortality and morbidity resulting from Highly Pathogenic Influenza infections, such as H5N1 and H1N1 influenza strains.

StormBio's approach is to modulate runaway inflammation. Many of the deaths and much of the permanent damage from influenza is caused by a runaway inflammatory process called cytokine storm. It is anticipated that StormBio's therapeutics also could be used to treat a variety of other inflammatory conditions. StormBio is affiliated with leading scientists in the field of inflammation and has in-licensed intellectual property and novel therapeutics directed at treating people in the event of an influenza pandemic.

Political life


Campaigning for Congress during the 2004 election, Mr. Brozak kicked off his campaign with a front-page feature story, A Marine Jumps Party Lines to Join Democrats in Trenches, in The Wall Street Journal, where he gave early warning of the nearly insurmountable challenges faced by the shortage of U.S. troops in Iraq and the need for a modified strategy to subdue insurgency and create a secure nation in Iraq. His campaign focused on the lack of planning for the Iraq war, the strain it placed on our military, and the severe economic repercussions that would ensue—specifically the rise in energy prices. He also stressed the need for unfettered research in stem cells and the need for a fair trade policy with other countries. Mr. Brozak was featured in an article in the magazine Salon, which described his campaign as "a referendum on Bush's military folly."

During his Congressional campaign, Mr. Brozak was invited to speak during prime time at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, where he criticized the Bush administration for lack of planning prior to the war in Iraq. He was later criticized by bloggers in the Internet publication, The Weekly Standard for his strong position against administration partisanship in political appointments at the Pentagon. Brozak was defeated by incumbent Mike Ferguson (Republican) for New Jersey's 7th Congressional District.

Military Life
Steve Brozak is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marine Corps, having served in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Caribbean. He has been attached to units within the United Nations, specifically as a Foreign area officer at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and as a Public Information Officer in the United Nations Mission in Haiti (UNMIH). LtCol Brozak has also been attached to units within NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and has worked with the Inter-American Defense Board.

LtCol Brozak resumed active duty service in the Marine Corps immediately after the September 11, 2001 attacks as Officer in Charge of Mobilization Training Unit NY- 17 in New York City. He later served as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, leading a team to the Middle East to evaluate National Guard and Reserve mobilization. Upon returning from Iraq, his team wrote a report that criticized lack of troop strength and drain on the reserves caused by the Iraq/Afghanistan deployments. His subsequent active duty assignment before retiring was Chief Spokesperson for OSD’s National Committee for the Employer support of the Guard and Reserve in Washington D.C. LtCol Brozak now a Marine Corps officer representing Department of Navy and Marine Corps retirees on the SECNAV Retiree Council. LtCol Brozak was twice awarded the Navy/Marine Corps Meritorious Service Medal, his last one for his efforts in Washington.

Personal life
Brozak is married and has two children. He was born in 1961 and received his BA from Columbia University (1982) and an MBA (1994) from Columbia University.

Published works

 * "Meningitis Outbreak: Restoring Confidence in the Drug-Industry" ABC News, October 16, 2012
 * "A Case for Accelerating Regenerative Medicine" ABC News, April 12, 2012
 * "A New American 11/11/11 Day: The Health Care Veterans Deserve" ABC News, November 11, 2011
 * "Seeking Innovation: Incentive Funding for Biodefense Biotechs" Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice and Science Volume 8, Number 4, 2010.
 * "Long Shadow of the Stem-Cell Ruling" Nature, the International Weekly Journal of Science, Volume 467, 1031–1033 (28 October 2010).
 * Fukushima and Nuclear Power: Playing with Fire, April 25, 2011
 * Fukushima: A Nuclear Threat to Japan, the U.S. and the World, April 6, 2011
 * Fukushima Joins Titanic, Katrina as a Single Word for Disaster, March 16, 2011
 * "Winners and Losers of the Greek Financial Crisis" abcnews.com. May 12, 2010.
 * "Four Standard-Bearers For Stem Cell Therapies" Forbes.com. April 23, 2010.
 * "How the Euro's Woes Could Affect the Economic - and Individual - Health" abcnews.com. February 25, 2010.
 * "The Facts Versus the Truth about Swine Flu" abcnews.com. September 3, 2009.
 * "Attack of the Zombie Biotechs" Forbes.com. April 2, 2009.
 * "Why Your Health Care Is in Jeopardy" abcnews.com. February 19, 2009.
 * "Caution - The FDA Could Be Hazardous to Your Health" Food and Drug Law Journal. January/February 2009.
 * "The Future of the FDA in the Next Administration" abcnews.com. October 27, 2008.
 * "The China Syndrome" abcnews.com. June 15, 2007.
 * "War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning" Book Review Marine Corps Gazette. August 2003.
 * "The Marine Corps, the media, and the 21st century" Marine Corps Gazette. January 2002.