Co-founder and Managing Director at Horizon Partners. Since co-founding Horizon in 2010, have led Horizon’s completion of dozens of sell-side M&A transactions for bootstrapped technology companies. Recent noteworthy transactions include top decile revenue multiple outcomes in each of Chegg's acquisition of Mathway, Spotify’s and Silversmith Capital’s majority recapitalization of DistroKid, Euronet’s purchase of XE, and Ziff Davis’ acquisition of Ookla (company behind Speedtest.net).Recipient of numerous industry honors for innovation in transaction strategy, process, and structuring. These include a number of deal of the year awards as well as distinction as an Emerging Leader (M&A Advisor) and Rising Star (M&A Atlas Awards). In 2020, was named Boutique Investment Banker of the Year by the M&A Atlas Awards, garnering further recognition for leading the execution team that added the the most value per transaction from 2019-2020 (Boutique Investment Banking Team of the Year).Co-founded Horizon from Hillhouse Capital Advisors, a boutique financial services firm that I founded to serve bootstrapped technology companies.Prior to Hillhouse, was among the first employees at a Silicon Valley investment bank, playing an important role as the firm more than quadrupled revenue and tripled team size.Yale School of Management and Yale Law School (visiting) - 13 Awards of Academic DistinctionB.A. in Finance from the University of Utah, graduating with highest honors