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California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Elevate Advisors LLC provides strategic, corporate and business development advisory services to C-level Executives and Boards of Directors of public and private technology companies. Industry focus includes electronics, semiconductors, enterprise infrastructure including AI hardware/data centers. Sought by network to drive transactions in the CCaaS, prop tech, mobility tech, climate tech sectors due to trusted relationships.We lead M&A transactions from beginning to end with every aspect meticulously analyzed & directed, including sourcing buyers or targets, driving outbounds, managing diligence, negotiating all aspects of transaction (term sheets, LOIs, DAs), engaging with, and regularly presenting to Board of Directors, and partnering with other advisors (lawyers, accountants) to the closing of the transaction. For financing transactions, we serve as consultant guiding management teams on key aspects of the process. We advise CEO’s on strategic matters including engaging with counterparties, navigating proposals and managing key stakeholders; guide CFO and financial teams on detailed development and presentation of financial models; consult CRO organizations on business development initiatives with appropriate partners.Illustrative engagements (full list available upon request).- Consultant to Management & Board of LiquidStack, full service liquid cooling vendor for generative AI data centers- Advisor to Smart Global Holdings (Nasdaq: SGH), ACS Group, Inc. (BMAD: ACS) and others- Advisor to Matterport, Inc. (Nasdaq: MTTR) on acquisition of VHT Studios and Enview- Consultant to Management & Board of Kinara, edge AI vendor- Consultant to Matterport Inc's (Nasdaq: MTTR) management on $2.9Bn business combination with Gores Holdings VI- Advisor to Cirrus Logic, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRUS) on acquisition of Lion Semiconductor for $335mm- Advisor to Zoom Video Communications (Nasdaq: ZM) on acquisition of Keybase

Served as Chief Financial Strategy Officer for Tensorwave, which is powering the Next Waveof AI Compute. Tensorwave's GPU Cloud is purpose built for training, fine-tuning and inference and powered by AMD's Instinct™ MI300X accelerators.Advised and guided founders on all aspects of funding (equity and debt) from SEED stage through Pre Series A Company raised financing from leading financial and corporate investors to build GPU Cloud.

San Francisco Bay Area

Led business development activities in N. America and Europe for Korea-based vendor of human interface solutions (3D / Force Touch and 2D Touch Drivers for OLED displays). Engaged with leading mobile (smartphone and tablet) OEMs, mobile OS vendors, other mobile eco-system constituents as well as standards forums on product strategy and partnership opportunitiesDrafted and negotiated IP licensing, cross-licensing, co-development, AVL, support and other business-related agreementsIdentified & developed go-to-market channels and customers in other verticals. Advised executive team on all corporate and strategic matters

San Francisco Bay Area

As the first hire for the hardware technology infrastructure team, I jointly built the operating infrastructure, recruited talent, and led the team. I developed and led relationships with public and private companies, financial sponsors, venture capitalists. Focused on electronics supply chain (semiconductor, EDA, semi-cap) and enterprise infrastructure (networking, storage, communications) clients, I sourced and led execution for several strategic (sell-side, buy-side, carve-out, unsolicited bids) & financing (equity, equity-linked) transactions. Key point person on all negotiations. As such, we were one of the few selected advisors to have sold a public company to Apple.

San Francisco Bay Area

Led all operational aspects of transactions as the primary driver of execution covering hardware (electronics and enterprise infrastructure), clean tech and software. Served as point of contact with product partners and external advisors (lawyers, accountants). Managed work of associates and analysts while beginning to build client relationships. The work we did encompassed every area of finance including equity (IPOs, Follow Ons, Registered Offerings, Rights Offerings), equity-linked, debt (balance sheet restructuring, banks, investment grade debt, high-yield debt) and strategic (M&A, bankruptcies, JVs, LBO). I also led hiring, professional development and training of junior bankers

San Francisco Bay Area

Performed hands-on analytics, due diligence and transaction tasks in support of deals covering broad technology sectors including hardware, software and tech-enabled services. Areas of financed covered were equity (IPOs, Follow Ons, Registered Offerings, PIPEs), equity-linked and strategic (M&A, LBO).

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Supported senior research analyst covering 12-14 mobile communications and mobile supply chain (electronics components and semiconductor) vendors. Performed primary diligence, regularly engaged in earnings calls, developed and led questions to the management teams, drafted post earnings reports and authored initiating coverage reports.

Hillsboro, Or

Developed network management software (in C) for flagship FTTH / FTTx (PON) product. Devised and automated database integration process for 30 engineers.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

I started the first 4.5 years with Nortel developing software (in C and C++) for three networking products in different stages of product lifecycle. Then I spent a year driving business development for the Carrier Telephony BU. A key highlight was managing a 4-member team winning $1B RFP from Sprint to provide VoIP solutions. Led engagements with various ILEC / CLECs.

Mba, Finance

Bs, Computer Engineering

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