Tom Gallagher Email & Phone Number

San Diego , Ca, Us

The Corporate Development team at Cetera Financial works closely with key executives, advisors, and external clients to increase franchise value through various strategic initiatives. As a Director, Tom is responsible for identifying opportunities and executing mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, investments, and divestitures across the broker-dealer, RIA, wealth management, and financial technology sectors.Key Responsibilities- Identify strategic investment or divestment opportunities across the broker-dealer, RIA, wealth management, and financial technology sectors - Develop the strategic rationale for acquisitions or divestitures - Prepare deliverables and present recommendations to executive management and the Board - Lead cross-functional teams and external advisors through the acquisition and divestiture processes including due diligence, strategic analysis, valuation, synergy identification, contracting, etc. - Maintain and/or build complex and detailed financial, valuation and LBO models as appropriate - Engage, manage and negotiate a transaction directly with private sellers - Work with senior leaders, finance management and peers on strategic and ad hoc projects - Mentor junior team members Key

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Tom managed a portfolio of approximately 20 Upstart lending partner accounts (banks and credit unions across the country) that were funding over $150 million of monthly loans in aggregate at their peak within the Upstart.C-Suite Relationship Management: owned the executive relationships (CEO, CFO, CLO, COO) and provided consultative leadership, ensuring the account is achieving and exceeding their goals with the Upstart partnership.Partnership Growth: explored new growth opportunities in current program and executed multiple contracts for new product offerings with current Upstart lending partner accounts.Used investment banking/corporate strategy background to (1) identify growth opportunities to grow monthly funding commitments through financial statement analysis, earnings calls, investor presentations, other publicly available information and discussions with executive leadership, and (2) revamped design of client presentation materials and designed core analyses to improve efficiency and quality.Key

Torrance, California, Us

Torrance, California, Us

New York, Ny, Us

During Tom's 14 years at Sandler O'Neill, now known as Piper Sandler, the investment banking group was typically ranked the #1 advisor for financial services M&A and capital raising based on the number of transactions. Tom acted as primary investment banking coverage officer for approximately twenty-five institutions, and secondary coverage officer for several relationships managed by the co-heads of FIG investment banking, in the depository and broker dealer sectors.Tom was involved in approximately 100 completed financial services / financial institutions mergers, acquisitions, corporate divestitures, public equity and debt financings, and private equity capital raises with an aggregate transaction value greater than $30 billion. These transactions ranged in value from $5 million to over $6 billion, including:- $340 million sale of Leerink Partners to Silicon Valley Bank- $483 million common stock offering by Virtu Financial, Inc. - $115 million subordinated debt offering by Dime Community Bancshares, Inc.- $1.4 billion acquisition of KCG Holdings, Inc. by Virtu Financial, Inc. - $2.2 billion sale of Astoria Financial Corporation to Sterling Bancorp- $150 million sale of Sterne Agee Group, Inc. to Stifel Financial Corp.The majority of Tom's investment banking experience has been in the depository (banks, savings institutions, credit unions) and broker dealer (investment banks, trading firms, wealth management) sectors, but he has also spent time with professional services, financial technology, asset management, and specialty finance firms.

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