Storm Duncan

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Delivering Extraordinary Financial Outcomes to Emerging Growth Tech Companies @ Ignatious
Storm Duncan's Location
Miami, Florida, United States, United States
About Storm Duncan

Storm is ranked one of the top 5 Tech M&A bankers of all time (VentureBeat 2024), one of the Top 50 M&A Dealmakers in the World (Atlas M&A Award 2024), and is a winner of the 2024 ”M&A Leadership Award” as well as multiple M&A and Growth Financing Deal of the Year awards. He has executed 2 of the top 10 ranked M&A deals of all time (Business Insider), and is the founder of Ignatious (VentureBeat top 5 Tech M&A Boutique, and Atlas 2024 Technology Boutique Investment Bank of the Year).Storm has advised many of the most iconic companies and defining transactions in the technology sector, and served as primary strategic advisor to Google for a decade, including the highest returning acquisition in history (YouTube) and DoubleClick amongst many others. He sold MySQL to Sun, and then sold Sun to Oracle; sold Apple its first full stack autonomous vehicle company; sold Tinder to Match; merged Careem with Uber (Global Deal of the Year); secured AMD’s future leadership in CPUs with the sale of Nexgen; sold Netfish for $270mm two days before filing for bankruptcy; led the only equity recovery ever for a software company in bankruptcy (Peregrine), and sold AOL the first DARPANet node, amongst many other groundbreaking transactions.His top five ranked tech advisory firm, Ignatious, focuses exclusively on capturing extraordinary financial outcomes for emerging growth technology companies, their visionary leaders, and the investors that support them by aligning these great companies with the best strategic and financial partners through their unmatched M&A and private capital raising expertise.Prior to Ignatious, Storm lead two of the top Technology investment banks and served as CEO/Co-founder of three startups in the technology space, including an award winning venture-backed start-up spun out of MIT. He has managed businesses ranging in size from startups to $1bb of annual revenue, founded 3 new corporate divisions with over $500 mm of annual revenue, and grew a declining mature division over 400% in less than 5 years.Storm is a frequent speaker and panelist at technology, M&A and mobility/transportation conferences, was the #1 ranked Jefferies Podcaster, a guest lecturer at Harvard Law School and Stanford University, and co-authored and co-taught a course on mergers and acquisitions at Stanford Law School.

Storm Duncan's Current Company Details
Ignatious

Ignatious

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Delivering Extraordinary Financial Outcomes to Emerging Growth Tech Companies
Storm Duncan Work Experience Details
  • Ignatious
    Founder And Managing Partner
    Ignatious Jan 2022 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    VentureBeat top 5 ranked Tech M&A Boutique and winner of the "2024 Top Technology M&A Boutique of the Year", we do one thing and we do it better than anyone else: Maximize the value of emerging growth technology companies through our unmatched M&A and private capital raising expertise. We do this by aligning great companies with the best strategic or financial partners.Registered Representative of Finalis Securities LLC Member FINRA / SIPC.
  • Angel Storm
    Strategic Advisor, Board Member, Investor
    Angel Storm 2002 - Present
    Invest in and advise technology startups to help accelerate their trajectory, with over 100 current active investments.
  • Jefferies
    Global Head, Managing Director
    Jefferies Jun 2016 - Jan 2022
    New York City, New York, Us
    Turned around declining Technology and M&A franchises, growing them several hundred percent, and from 27th ranked to 6th in five years, while simultaneously founding and leading three new divisions from the idea stage to top ranked globally with hundreds of millions of incremental revenue.
  • Dwellaware
    Co-Founder And Ceo
    Dwellaware Apr 2013 - May 2016
    Built a cross-functional technology team to develop an innovative risk assessment technology.
  • Essess, Inc.
    Ceo
    Essess, Inc. Nov 2011 - Apr 2013
    Transformed a start-up company with $500,000 of debt, no capital and a non-working product into a revenue-producing, venture-funded technology and thought leader in its sector. Selected by Sustainia as one of the World’s 100 most outstanding sustainable solutions.
  • Credit Suisse
    Managing Director, Global Head Of Technology M&A, Senior Advisor
    Credit Suisse 1999 - Mar 2012
    Zurich, Ch
    Managed global division to the #1 ranking in outcomes (premiums received by sellers and premiums paid by buyers), as well as #1 market share, generating over $1 billion of revenue. Served on firm’s Advisory Committee, Compensation Committee and Managing Director Evaluation Committee.
  • Lehman Brothers
    Vice President
    Lehman Brothers 1996 - 1999
    Us
    Coverage and M&A execution for the technology sector.
  • Painewebber
    Associate
    Painewebber 1994 - 1996
    Us
    Technology M&A
  • Multiple
    Cigarette Butt Picker Upper
    Multiple 1984 - 1994
    I performed numerous manual labor and other jobs throughout high school/college/grad school, including ranch hand, janitor, fast food guy, campaign manager and Congressional intern, amongst others. I've delivered calves in sub zero winter temperatures during the middle of the night, cleaned high-volume toilets, picked up thousands of cigarette butts, and fed many people. Each experience has been a phenomenal opportunity to iteratively learn, grow and earn appreciation for all humans.

Storm Duncan Education Details

  • Yale University
    Yale University
    Political Science And American Studies
  • University Of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School Of Business
    University Of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School Of Business
    Finance
  • Glenrock High School
    Glenrock High School

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Storm Duncan works for Ignatious

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Storm Duncan's current role is Delivering Extraordinary Financial Outcomes to Emerging Growth Tech Companies.

What schools did Storm Duncan attend?

Storm Duncan attended Yale University, University Of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School Of Business, Glenrock High School.

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