I served as Managing Director and senior equity research analyst at JMP Securities covering the software sector, including companies in infrastructure software, application software, data analytics, security, internet infrastructure, fintech, as well as e-commerce. During my 10+ year tenure at JMP I led the research effort on over a half dozen IPOs, including SolarWinds, Dropbox, Alteryx, Cloudera, Tableau, and New Relic, among others. My coverage universe prior to joining ICR as a leader of their west coast tech effort consisted of the following names:Akamai Technologies (AKAM)Alteryx (AYX)Box (BOX)CA Technologies (CA)Cloudera (CLDR)CommVault Systems (CVLT) Dropbox (DBX)Envestnet (ENV)Hortonworks (HDP)J2 Global (JCOM)Limelight Networks (LLNW)New Relic (NEWR)NICE Systems (NICE)Pegasystems (PEGA)PROS Holdings (PRO)Red Hat (RHT)ServiceNow (NOW)Splunk (SPLK)Tableau Software (DATA)Teradata (TDC) Varonis (VRNS)In addition to the half dozen recent software IPOs where I served as the lead analyst, I was also a key member of the research team that helped take the following companies public: AVG Technologies (AVG, acquired by Avast), Convio (CNVO, acquired by Blackbaud) , Cornerstone OnDemand (CSOD), DemandTec (DMAN, acquired by IBM), Eloqua (ELOQ, acquired by Oracle), NetSuite (N, acquired by Oracle), Rackspace (RAX, acquired by Apollo), RealPage (RP), Responsys (MKTG, acquired by Oracle), SciQuest (SQI, acquired by Accel-KKR), ServiceSource (SREV), SPS Commerce (SPSC), and SuccessFactors (SFSF, acquired by SAP).The breadth of my coverage and experience as a lead research analyst also included: Accelrys (ACCL, acquired by Dassault Systems), Deltek (PROJ, acquired by Thoma Bravo), Retalix (RTLX, acquired by NCR), TIBCO (TIBX, acquired by Vista Equity Partners), Actuate (BIRT, acquired by OpenText), SolarWinds (SWI, acquired by Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo), Qlik Technologies (QLIK, acquired by Thoma Bravo), IBM (IBM), and MicroStrategy (MSTR).