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Jason Auerbach
Managing Director
Global Head of Technology Investment Banking
San Francisco

T: +1 415 462 0056

Jason Auerbach is a Managing Director and Global Head of Technology Investment Banking at Moelis & Company. He has over 25 years of investment banking experience and has completed hundreds of transactions across various technology subsectors. Having advised clients on many of the industry’s most transformative and defining transactions, Jason has extensive relationships and expertise in originating and executing mandates across the full spectrum of corporate finance matters.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Jason was the Global Head of Tech Investment Banking and Co-Head of Investment Banking at SVB Securities, where he led the firm’s global technology coverage. Before SVB, Jason worked at UBS, where he served as the Global Co-Head of Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) investment banking. Earlier in his career, he was the Global Co-Head of TMT Mergers and Acquisitions at Jefferies & Company.

Jason holds a B.A. from Columbia University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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Ankush Gupta
Managing Director
San Francisco

T: +1 415 870 2807

Ankush Gupta is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising clients on M&A and capital markets transactions in the software sector. Ankush has over 17 years of experience in the technology industry, with broad expertise and understanding of the software sector including areas such as cybersecurity, infrastructure software, data analytics and various application stacks. Ankush has executed M&A transactions globally across the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, China and India.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Ankush worked as a Software Engineer and a Product Manager. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Panjab University, India and an M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

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Nadim Laiwala
Managing Director
San Francisco

T: +1 415 870 2817

Nadim Laiwala is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he focuses on advising clients in the hardware technology sector. Nadim has extensive investment banking experience advising communications technology, electronics and deep technology clients on sell-side and buy-side transactions, capital advisory transactions and a variety of other corporate finance matters.

Nadim previously held various roles at Qatalyst Partners and Houlihan Lokey and was a software engineer before launching his technology investment banking career. Nadim holds dual B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the College of Engineering and in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business, both from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Anuj Mathur
Managing Director
San Francisco

T: +1 415 870 2844

Anuj Mathur is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he provides financial and strategic advice to internet and digital media companies. Within the sector, he focuses on companies in verticals including ecommerce & marketplaces, digital media & content, marketing & advertising technologies, SMB Internet & SaaS and consumer fintech. Anuj has nearly 15 years of investment banking experience working with high-growth public and private companies in the internet and digital media sector.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Anuj was a Managing Director covering global internet and digital media at Barclays. Before that, he advised clients on M&A transactions and led execution of equity and debt offerings for companies across the internet and digital media sector at Deutsche Bank.

Anuj holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California, Riverside and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley

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Chris Montgomery
Managing Director
San Francisco

T: +1 415 462 0057

Christopher Montgomery is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising clients in the technology sector with a focus on enterprise software. Chris has over 15 years of investment banking experience and has advised application, infrastructure and communications software clients on M&A, debt financing and equity capital markets transactions.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Chris was a Senior Managing Director of Tech Investment Banking at SVB Securities and previously a Managing Director at UBS. Prior to that, Chris worked at Jefferies Broadview in New York and Silicon Valley. He started his career at Intel Corporation.

Chris holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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Rick Polhemus
Managing Director
San Francisco

T: +1 415 870 2816

Rick Polhemus is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he co-leads the Clean Technology Group. Rick has nearly 25 years of investment banking experience, specializing in advising clients across a range of growth-driven clean technology, industrial technology and services sectors. In particular, his clean technology expertise spans a number of sub-sectors including electrification, mobility, grid modernization, sustainability services and circular/environmental services. His experience includes originating and executing transactions throughout the corporate lifecycle, including M&A, leveraged buyouts, IPOs, debt and equity capital raising, shareholder defense and other strategic mandates for public and private companies.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Rick was a Managing Director and Head of Western Region Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley, where he led sector coverage of industrial technology, various areas of clean tech, environmental/sustainability services and infrastructure services. Before that, he was a Managing Director in the Industrials and Technology Groups at J.P. Morgan, where he was instrumental in establishing the firm’s coverage efforts in the industrial growth sector, including early innovation in clean energy, in addition to several adjacent subsectors. Rick started his investment banking career at Hambrecht & Quist.

He holds a B.A. in Economics from Pomona College and an M.B.A. in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Swati Rao
Managing Director
San Francisco

T: +1 415 870 2810

Swati Rao is Managing Director at Moelis & Company where she specializes in advising clients in the healthcare sector. Swati has almost 15 years of investment banking and corporate finance experience with extensive expertise advising on domestic and cross-border M&A as well as capital markets healthcare transactions across the biotechnology, specialty pharma and generics sectors.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Swati was on the European corporate finance team at GE Capital and the European M&A team at Lehman Brothers. Swati holds a B.C. with joint Honors in Economics and Finance from McGill University.

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Tarik Rguem
Managing Director
San Francisco

T: +1 415 870 2820

Tarik Rguem is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he focuses on advising clients in the financial sponsors, consumer, retail and restaurants sectors. Mr. Rguem has over 13 years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Mr. Rguem was an Executive Director at UBS Investment Bank in the Financial Sponsors and Leveraged Finance Group. Mr. Rguem was also previously an Associate at Houlihan Lokey, and prior to his investment banking career was a Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble.

Mr. Rguem graduated magna cum laude with a B.Comm (Honors) in Finance from the University of Ottawa and holds an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he is a member of the Anderson Honor Society.

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J.T. Stephens
Managing Director
San Francisco

T: +1 415 462 0058

J.T. Stephens is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in advising technology clients with a focus on the commerce enablement, consumer internet, and marketing software sectors. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the industry, having advised boards and management teams on mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and public and private equity and debt financings.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, J.T. was a Senior Managing Director of Tech Investment Banking at SVB Securities and served as Managing Director and Head of Internet and Consumer Software, Americas at UBS. Previously, he was a member of the Technology Investment Banking teams at RBC Capital Markets and Robertson Stephens. Earlier in his career, J.T. held leadership roles at Six Apart, a content management platform that catered to SMBs and at Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK), an early pioneer in the eCommerce sector.

J.T. holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.B.A. in Finance, Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.