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AO Top Dealmakers - Individuals -
AlwaysOn and KPMG are pleased to announce the individual
winners of the first annual AO Top Dealmakers List. These growth-market
professionals cover the entire investment food chain including limited
partner investors, VCs, investment bankers, lawyers, private equity
directors, institutional investors, and corporate buyers. AO will publish
the numbers behind these picks in the next issue of the
AlwaysOn Magazine, which will hit the newsstands in early December.
Winning dealmakers were rewarded for the total dollars transacted as well as
M&A and IPO success in the globaltech, media & entertainment, and greentech
sectors in the last twelve months.
This list also includes the AO Industry Analyst All-Star Team, made up of
the most influential analysts in the investment world, categorized by
market segment.
Both the top
firms, published last week, and individual dealmakers will be honored on
December 6th at
Venture Summit West in Half Moon Bay, CA. There are still tickets
available for 33%-off the full price --
click here to reserve yours before the discount expires.
Angel Investors
When you’ve just come up with a great idea
and want to do first development on your concept and write your business
plan without starving, you go find an angel investor. In exchange for shares
in your company, these individuals provide you with seed capital, as well as
in most cases useful introductions and advice. Our selection criteria
includes the number of their angel investments in the most successful
companies who have transformed their markets (like Google).
Andreas von Bechtolsheim, Sun Microsystems
Ram Shriram, Sherpalo Ventures
David Cheriton, Stanford University
Ronald Conway, Angel Investors
Parag Saxena, Vedanta Capital
Allen Miner, SunBridge Group
D James Guzy, Arbor Company
Limited Partners
Limited partners are the big, quiet kahunas at the front of the
technology finance food chain. Venture capital firms are just one thing they
invest in, but they’re what provides most of the money VCs have under
management.
Edward J. Grzybowski, TIAA-CREF
Rob Feckner, CalPERS
Christopher J. Ailman, CalSTRS
Venture Capitalists
You have a business plan and a bunch of code. Now you need to
productize your concept, hire a sales force, build a channel, and bring your
products to market. Until you’re fully profitable, get acquired, or raise
public equity through an IPO, your building and operating capital comes from
venture investors.
Roelof Botha, Sequoia Capital
Kevin Harvey, Benchmark Capital
Andy Rachleff, Benchmark Capital
Danny Rimer, Index Ventures
Ryan McIntyre, Mobius Ventyres
Fred Harman, Oak Investment Partners
Peter Morris, New Enterprise Associates
Doug Carlyle, Menlo Ventures
Tim Draper, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Doug Leone, Sequoia Capital
Kevin Compton, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Alex Balkanski, Benchmark Capital
Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital
Scott Sandell, New Enterprise Associates
Peter Wagner, Accel Partners
Vinod Khosla, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Venture Capital – Corporate Investors
Corporate VCs are a little different. They can invest in early- or
late-stage deals, but they usually focus on sub-sectors and investments with
potential business benefits for their limited partner – the corporate
parent.
Arvind Sodhani, Intel Capital
Samuel H. Schwartz, Comcast Interactive Capital
Kenneth A. Bronfin, Hearst Corporation/Hearst Interative Media
John O'Donohue, Motorola Ventures
Corporate Lawers
First, let’s call the lawyers – at least, that’s a good plan in the
world of technology finance. Some of these individuals have done well by
providing low or deferred-fee incorporation services to brand-new startups,
sometimes for shares, and some not only provide counsel but also
introductions during mergers, IPOs, or other financing events.
Michael Ringler, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC
David McPherson, Latham & Watkins
Doug Cogen, Fenwick & West
Robert Gunderson, Gunderson Dettmer
Jonathan Axelrad, Goodwin Procter LLP
Investment Bankers
When the time is right to take your company public or get bought, you work
with investment banks. If it’s an IPO, they underwrite you – helping prepare
your prospectus, setting the share price, promoting you to institutional
investors, and once you’re public, providing analyst coverage of your stock
to keep public investors up to date on your financial performance. If it’s
an M&A, they act as advisers to either party, structuring the deal, and
providing acquisition capital. There are two tiers of investment banks: the
bulge brackets are large, global, financial service companies that combine
commercial banking, investment banking and sometimes insurance. The middle
market, or boutique, investment banks are generally not affiliated with
commercial banks.
Bulge Bracket
Michael Grimes, Morgan Stanley
George Lee, Goldman Sachs
Paul Innouye, Lehman Brothers
John Metz, Credit Suisse
Mark Zanoli, JP Morgan
Boutiques
Paul Deninger, Jefferies & Company Inc
Roger Altman, Evercore Partners
Thomas Weisel, Thomas Weisel Partners
Private Equity
Private equity, or leveraged buyout, firms are the ones that take
public companies private, or buy their stock with the goal of turning them
around and selling them.
C. Andrew Ballard, Hellman and Friedman
Henry Kravis, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co
Roger McNamee, Elevation Partners
John Hodge, The Blackstone Group
Glen Hutchins, Silver Lake Partners
Institutional Public Investors
Asset management firms of all stripes (mutual funds, hedge funds, etc.) fall
into this category. Besides investing in technology stocks, they may also
become limited partners in private equity firm funds.
Yun-Min (Charlie) Chai, Fidelity Management & Research
Jeff Rottinghaus, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
Michael Perre, Vanguard Group, Inc.
Corporate Buyers
Big companies want to acquire successful startups that have a
strategic fit, breakthrough technologies, masses of customers and profit
margins.
Ned Hooper, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Douglas Kehring, Oracle Corp.
Dave Johnson, International Business Machines Corp.
David Drummond, Google, Inc.
Kevin Mayer, Walt Disney Company
The AO All-Star Industry Analyst Team
These are the top analysts in their respective sectors. Buy-side
investors rely upon them for accuracy in equity performance and early
forecasting of trend changes.
Consumer & Media
Anthony Noto, Goldman Sachs
Mark Mahaney, Citigroup
Youssef Squalli, Jefferies & Co
Imran Khan, JP Morgan
Traci Mangini, ThinkEquity Partners
Devices & Components
Kevin Hunt, Thomas Weisel
Ben Reitzes, UBS
Enablers
Heather Bellini, UBS
Sarah Friar, Goldman Sachs
Katherine Egbert, Jefferies
Gene Munster, Piper Jaffray
Enterprise
Peter Kuper, Morgan Stanley
Jason Maynard, Credit Suisse
Greentech
Dave Edwards, Morgan Stanley
Infrastructure
Laura Conigliaro, Goldman Sachs
Tom Watts, SG Cowen
Mobile
Brian Modoff, Deutsche Bank
Vik Mehta, Goldman Sachs
Ehud Gelblum, JP Morgan Securities
Posted Nov 06, 07
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