Managing Partner at Drake Star Partners, a global media / tech investment bank with over 100 professionals across the U.S., Europe and Asia. Advised on over 500 M&A / financing transactions, including the sale of Singularity 6 to EG7 / Daybreak, Spiketrap to Reddit, Wildworks to Nazara, Echtra Games to Zynga, Lightstream to Xsolla, Tasty Pill to Azur Games, Nura to Denon / Sound United, Firefly to Devolver, Slightly Mad Studios to Codemasters, Game Circus to Monumental, FreshPlanet / SongPop to Vivendi, Wildmoka to Backlight / PSG, envato to Shutterstock, EyeEm to NewValue, Avira to Investcorp, Freepik to EQT, elgato gaming to Corsair, nWay to Animoca, AvaFin to Capitec Bank, Cashmere to S4 Capital / Media Monks, and financing for Flightkey by Insight Partners and HMD by Google / Qualcomm.

GABA is an alliance of corporations, organizations and professionals with the purpose of strengthening transatlantic business. We have built on German-Californian networking and knowledge sharing since 2001, and we operate at the forefront of international business, media and technology.

Providing M&A and growth financing advisory services to media, Internet and technology companies globally. Recent transactions include sale of Creators Media - Movie Pilot / Webedia, Pixomondo - Mayfair Equity Partners, Slacker Radio / LiveXLive, JumpStart Games/ NetDragon, Gawker Media / Univision, Viant / Times, Inc., WGT Media / TopGolf, bwin.party / GVC Holdings, 32Red / Kindred, Healthline / Summit Partners, PokerStars / Amaya, Orad / Avid Technology, Elemica / Thoma Bravo, Calabrio / KKR, People Matter / snagajob, Lastminute.com (Sabre) / Bravofly Rumbo, Randall-Reilly / Aurora Capital Partners, merger of PlayNetwork / TouchTunes, and financings for Acorns (PayPal, Rakuten), Boom Studios (20th Century Fox), Jedox (Iris Capital), ClickDimensions (Accel-KKR), Netbase (Spring Lake Equity Partners), Dose Media (Tribune Media) and Vibes (Syniverse).Houlihan Lokey acquired MESA Global in June 2015.

MESA Global is a merchant bank providing premium M&A and financing services to media, enter-tainment and technology companies. MESA advised on the following financing transactions: $275M for FanDuel (by KKR, Google Capital, Time Warner, Turner, NFL, NBA, Shamrock, Comcast Ventures), $70M for Fanduel (by Shamrock, KKR and NBCSports), $50M for Spirit Music by Fortress Investment Group, $34M for Delivery Agent, $15M for MasterImage by Samsung, $23M for ShareThis by T-Venture, $34M for IMAX, $350M for Relativity Media as well as the following M&A transactions: OUYA/Razer, Songza/Google, Viacom Gaming/Defy Media, Grab Media/Blinkx, MOG/Beats Music, Double O Radio/Townsquare Media, Zvents/eBay, Indiagames/Disney, MetroLeap/CBS and US Presswire/Gannett.

Covert & Co. is a next-generation investment bank providing premium M&A and financing services to Internet, media and tech companies. Covert & Co. team advised on M&A transactions including Hearst / UGO - NewsCorp / IGN, SRS Labs - DTS, Aeria Games - Gamepot/Sony, Schematic Labs - Rhapsody, Club Penguin - Disney, NevenVision - Google, MySpace - NewsCorp, Musicmatch - Yahoo, Grouper(Crackle) - Sony, DailyCandy - Comcast, Rent.com - Ebay, SocialShield - Avira, Fastpoint Games - WePlay, Element5 - DigitalRiver, Mobile Messenger - Silverlake Partners, Jobs.com - Monster, Schematic- WPP, SRD- IBM, Cast&Crew - AbryPartners, ConsumerInfo - Experian, AdvancedMD - Francisco Partners, Mobile Messenger - Silverlake Partners, Ribbit - BT, WRQ - Golden Gate Capital, SearchRev - AKQA, ifilm - Viacom, Lexico - IAC, eTeamz - Active.com, as well as financing transactions for Meebo by Time Warner, RealtimeWorlds by WPP, MoveNetworks by Microsoft/Comcast & Cisco, WildTangent by WPP, PatersonsPayroll by Rho, LeisureLink by Clearstone, VisibleWorld by Adams Street Partners, KickApps by North Atlantic Partners, Legalzoom by Polaris, People Admin by Summit Partners, VantageMedia by Tudor - Scale, MarketSharePartners by Elevation Partners and Specific Media by Enterprise Partners.

Buy & Sell Side M&A Advisory, Financing, Private Placement (Debt/Equity) and Fairness Opinions focused on the Technology, Media & Telecom sectors.

Buy / sell side M&A and private placement financing advisory for digital media companies.

Analyzed mobile marketing and advertising segments and discussed strategy with CEOs of 60+ leaders in mobile media industry from advertisers, marketing agencies, distributors, content providers to wireless carriers. Advised on mobile M&A strategy and provided recommendations to expand monetization of Yahoo! Mobile Search and Yahoo! Go.

Managed product marketing, strategy and corporate development team for Mobile, VoIP & Video business with carrier deployments at Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, Comcast, Deutsche Telekom, British Telecom, China Unicom, China Telecom, China Mobile, KDDI, SKT, KTF, Telmex, Telefonica and others.