Investment Banking

Doug Gonsalves
Head of Investment Banking and M&A
dgonsalves@thinkequity.com

Mr. Gonsalves serves as the Head of Investment Banking, Co-head of M&A and is a member of the Management Committee at ThinkEquity. He joined ThinkEquity in 2007 and has more than 20 years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining ThinkEquity, Mr. Gonsalves served as Managing Director with responsibilities for leading the software, internet and services practices at SVB Alliant, the investment banking affiliate of Silicon Valley Bank. Prior experience included serving as a senior technology banker in the corporate finance and M&A groups of Merrill Lynch & Co., where he served as Co-head of Western U.S. operations for Merrill Lynch's middle market M&A group and Head of the technology M&A practice. Mr. Gonsalves also served in the M&A groups of Robertson Stephens and Banc of America Securities. Mr. Gonsalves earned an M.B.A. with distinction from Santa Clara University.

Mr. Gonsalves works out of the San Francisco Office.

Doug Brockway
Managing Director
dbrockway@thinkequity.com

Mr. Brockway serves as a senior member of the Software investment banking team at ThinkEquity.  He joined ThinkEquity in 2011 and has more than 20 years of investment banking experience.  Prior to joining ThinkEquity, Mr. Brockway served as a Managing Director with Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, leading its Software and Healthcare IT investment banking practices.  Mr. Brockway previously founded and led SG Cowen's Technology corporate finance group for its Boston office, and also served as a senior investment banker with Alex. Brown.  Additional experience included serving as a Managing Director with Innovation Advisors, a technology-focused investment bank, as well as investment banking roles with Salomon Brothers and Whitman Heffernan Rhein & Co. Mr. Brockway earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and graduated with honors from Dartmouth College.

Mr. Brockway works out of the Boston Office.

Joe Dews
Managing Director
jdews@thinkequity.com

Mr. Dews is the Head of ThinkEquity's Cleantech banking practice. Mr. Dews joined ThinkEquity in May 2007 as head of Semiconductor banking, and remains active in the semiconductor franchise. Mr. Dews was previously Managing Director and Head of Global Semiconductor Banking at Needham & Company, Managing Director and Head of Semiconductors and Infrastructure Software at Dain Rauscher Wessels, and Managing Director and Head of Semiconductors and Electronics at CIBC/Oppenheimer. In addition to his investment banking experience, Mr. Dews was Vice President of Business Development at software company Versata, Inc., and served as a Field Applications Engineer at semiconductor company Cirrus Logic K.K in Tokyo, Japan. Mr. Dews graduated with a B.S. in Applied & Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 1988, and speaks fluent Japanese.

Mr. Dews works out of the San Francisco Office.

Kurt Hoofnagle
Managing Director
khoofnagle@thinkequity.com

Mr. Hoofnagle serves as the Head of ThinkEquity's Communications and Enterprise Datacenter Infrastructure banking practices.  Mr. Hoofnagle joined ThinkEquity in 2010 and has more than 15 years of investment banking experience.  Prior to joining ThinkEquity, Mr. Hoofnagle was with RBC Capital Markets, JP Morgan and Lehman Brothers and covered the communications, networking and networked storage industries while at each of these firms.  Mr. Hoofnagle was awarded an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated from U.C Berkeley with a B.A. in Economics.

Mr. Hoofnagle works out of the San Francisco Office.

Warren Jones
Director
wjones@thinkequity.com

Mr. Jones is a Director in the Cleantech banking group with a focus on both energy technologies and related project finance. He joined ThinkEquity in 2009 and brings over 16 years of transaction experience. Previously Mr. Jones was a Vice President with Seven Hills Partners, LLC, where he founded the firm's Cleantech practice, and a Manager with Accenture Technology Ventures. Mr. Jones holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.B.A. from the University of Oxford, and earned a B.A. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University.

Mr. Jones works out of the San Francisco Office.

Jonathan Levy
Managing Director
jlevy@thinkequity.com

Mr. Levy is a Managing Director and leads the public sector Private Placement practice that is responsible for advising public companies on their capital needs. Mr. Levy’s responsibilities include structuring, negotiating and distributing privately placed products to institutional clients. Mr. Levy joined ThinkEquity in 2011 and began his investment banking career in 2003 after working several years counseling public and private technology companies as an attorney for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Prior to joining ThinkEquity, Mr. Levy was a managing director at Merriman Curhan & Ford and Earlybird Capital, where he helped elevate the firm to a top issuer in private investments of public entities. Mr. Levy earned an J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, and a B.A. in English Literature and Religious Studies from Wesleyan University.

Mr. Levy works out of the San Francisco Office.

Pooyan Mehdizadeh
Managing Director
pooyan@thinkequity.com

Mr. Mehdizadeh is a Managing Director and Co-head of the Semiconductor investment banking practice, as well as a senior member of ThinkEquity's M&A team and serves on the Fairness Opinion Committee. Prior to joining ThinkEquity in 2007, Mr. Mehdizadeh was a senior banker at Needham & Company and has more than 11 years of investment banking experience. Mr. Mehdizadeh has successfully represented public and private companies in over 60 completed transaction across the full spectrum of financing and advisory assignments, including acquisitions, exclusive sales, divestitures, spin-offs, take-over defense assignments and cross-border transactions. Earlier in his career, Mr. Mehdizadeh was a Consultant at Accenture plc. Mr. Mehdizadeh received a B.S. in Information and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Irvine.

Mr. Mehdizadeh works out of the San Francisco Office.

Josh Muntner
Managing Director
jmuntner@thinkequity.com

Mr. Muntner serves as a Managing Director and Co-head of the Healthcare and Life Sciences investment banking practice at ThinkEquity. Mr. Muntner joined ThinkEquity in 2009 and has over 13 years of healthcare investment banking experience during which he worked on a variety of equity and M&A transactions. Prior to joining ThinkEquity, Mr. Muntner worked at Oppenheimer, CIBC World Markets and Prudential Securities. Mr. Muntner earned an M.B.A. from The Anderson School at UCLA and a B.F.A. degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

Mr. Munter works out of the New York Office.

Steven O'Donnell
Managing Director
sodonnell@thinkequity.com

Mr. O'Donnell is a Managing Director in ThinkEquity's investment banking group, with a sector focus on Software and Technology-enabled Services. He joined ThinkEquity in 2010, and during his 20 year banking career has advised numerous companies in connection with public equity offerings, mergers & acquisitions, and private capital raising assignments. Prior to joining ThinkEquity, Mr. O'Donnell led the East Coast Software and Technology Services coverage team for RBC Capital Markets. Previously, Mr. O'Donnell was with Dain Rauscher Wessels and Deloitte. Mr. O'Donnell earned an M.B.A. from Duke University and a B.S.B.A. from Boston College.

Mr. O'Donnell works out of the Boston Office.

Richard Page
Managing Director
rpage@thinkequity.com

Mr. Page serves as a Managing Director and Co-head of the Healthcare and Life Sciences investment banking effort at ThinkEquity. Mr. Page joined ThinkEquity in 2010 and has over 17 years of healthcare investment banking experience, with extensive experience working on a variety of equity and M&A transactions. Prior to ThinkEquity, Mr. Page served as a Senior Advisor at JSB-Partners where he worked on partnering and licensing transactions for biotechnology and specialty pharmaceutical clients. Mr. Page has held senior investment banking roles in the healthcare groups of JMP Securities, Prudential Securities, ABN Amro, and ING Barings. Mr. Page started his career in the Healthcare investment banking group at Lehman Brothers.  Mr. Page earned a B.A. in Economics from Haverford College.

Mr. Page works out of the New York Office.

Greg Roth
Managing Director
groth@thinkequity.com

Mr. Roth is a Managing Director in the Software investment banking group at ThinkEquity.  He joined ThinkEquity in 2011 and has more than 17 years of corporate finance experience.  Prior to joining ThinkEquity, Mr. Roth served as a Managing Director at Hercules Technology Growth Capital, where he focused on providing equity and debt financing to venture and private equity-sponsored technology companies.  Prior experience included serving as a Managing Director at Piper Jaffray, as well as senior investment banking roles at Credit Suisse First Boston and RBC Capital Markets (Wessels, Arnold & Henderson).  Mr. Roth earned an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Political Science and Organizational Behavior from Brown University.

Mr. Roth works out of the San Francisco Office.

Scott Roth
Managing Director
sroth@thinkequity.com

Mr. Roth is a Managing Director at ThinkEquity, where he is responsible for the firm's Private Placement practice as well as industry coverage of the Education Technology sector.  Mr. Roth joined ThinkEquity in 2008 and began his investment banking career in 1992 after several years as a management consultant.  He joined ThinkEquity from Pagemill Partners, a Silicon Valley mergers and acquisitions advisory boutique.  Prior to joining Pagemill, Mr. Roth was a Director with the Credit Suisse First Boston Technology Group in Palo Alto where he was a member of the Communications investment banking team and had sector banking responsibility for test and measurement companies.  Before CSFB, he spent nine years in investment banking and M&A advisory roles at Volpe Brown Whelan & Company in San Francisco.  Mr. Roth earned both a M.A. and a B.A. degree from Stanford University.

Mr. Roth works out of the San Francisco Office.

Rick Wolfgram
Managing Director
rwolfgram@thinkequity.com

Mr. Wolfgram joined ThinkEquity in June 2007 as Managing Director and Head of Internet and Media investment banking. Mr. Wolfgram joined ThinkEquity from Seven Hills Partners, LLC, which he joined in 2002. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Wolfgram was a Senior Business Development Manager at Inktomi Corporation. Previously, Mr. Wolfgram worked in the Media and Technology investment banking groups at Salomon Smith Barney, and began his banking career at Volpe, Welty & Company. Mr. Wolfgram received an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.

Mr. Wolfgram works out of the San Francisco Office.

Hayden Condon
Vice President
hcondon@thinkequity.com

Mr. Condon is a Vice President in ThinkEquity's Software investment banking practice. He joined ThinkEquity in 2011 and has more than seven years of technology investment banking experience primarily focused in the software, IT services, and healthcare IT subsectors. Prior to joining ThinkEquity, Mr. Condon spent several years as a member of the technology and healthcare groups at Stifel Nicolaus Weisel. Mr. Condon began his investment banking career in 2004 at Innovation Advisors, a boutique firm providing M&A and private capital raising advisory services to middle market technology companies. Mr. Condon graduated with a B.A. in Economics from Colgate University.

Mr. Condon works out of the Boston Office.

Michael Cox
Vice President
mcox@thinkequity.com

Mr. Cox serves as a Vice President and is a member of the Private Placement group, with a particular focus in the Renewable Project Finance sector.  He joined ThinkEquity in 2006 and has more than six years of investment banking experience.  Prior to joining ThinkEquity, Mr. Cox served as an Associate in the Venture Law practice in the law firm of Squire, Sanders in Palo Alto, CA.  He serves on the Board of the San Francisco chapter of the Boys Hope Girls Hope charity organization.  Mr. Cox received a J.D. from the Georgetown School of Law and a B.S. from Northwestern University.

Mr. Cox works out of the San Francisco Office.

Bryan Dow
Vice President
bdow@thinkequity.com

Mr. Dow serves as a Vice President in the investment banking group at ThinkEquity.  He joined ThinkEquity in 2007, and his responsibilities include the origination and execution of financing and M&A transactions.  Prior to joining ThinkEquity, Mr. Dow was an Associate in Needham & Company's investment banking division, where he also served as a Financial Analyst.  Prior to Needham, Mr. Dow was a Financial Analyst at an investment advisory and wealth management firm.  Bryan has successfully completed over 50 equity financings, debt financings and advisory transactions for growth companies.  Mr. Dow holds a B.S. in Finance and Management Information Systems from the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University.

Mr. Dow works out of the San Francisco Office.

Amit Mujumdar
Vice President
amujumdar@thinkequity.com

Mr. Mujumdar is a Vice President with ThinkEquity specializing in Mergers & Acquisitions.  Mr. Mujumdar joined the firm in 2010 and has significant investment banking experience across various technology sectors, including digital media, software, IT services and semiconductors.  Prior to joining ThinkEquity, Mr. Mujumdar worked in corporate development at Business.com, the interactive online marketing division of Dex One Corporation.  Prior to Dex One, Mr. Mujumdar was a Senior Associate in Lazard's Telecommunications, Media and Technology group in San Francisco where he advised leading multinational public companies in strategic buyside engagements.  Previously, Mr. Mujumdar held Associate positions with GCA Savvian and C.E. Unterberg, Towbin.  Mr. Mujumdar earned an M.B.A. from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and received a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance from McGill University.

Mr. Mujumdar works out of the San Francisco Office.