Tarang Shah will be a speaker at the Mobile Host Show - The Mobile Summit for Hospitality and Retail

Tarang Shah, Managing Director at Generation Equity Advisors, will be speaking at the 2013 Mobile Host Show - The Mobile Summit for Hospitality and Retail held in Las Vegas, NV on May 23, 2013 at The Mirage Hotel and Casino.



He will be covering the subject "The Future of Mobile Payments for Hospitality and Retail." Mobile payments, also known as mobile money or mobile wallet, are expected to be one of the greatest growth areas in the near future. We will sort through all the options that compose mobile payments and what you can expect from future technologies that will drive sales.


The presentation will be posted on the www.generationequityadvisors.com website shortly after the event.


About Tarang Shah

Tarang Shah is a Managing Director at Generation Equity Advisors, a Los Angeles-based independent investment bank and mergers & acquisitions advisory firm focused exclusively on technology companies, where he covers the mobile technology sector.  He is a former Softbank venture capital professional as well as a former program manager for Ericsson,  Qualcomm and NEC. Mr. Shah holds two degrees in Engineering and two MBA degrees. You can contact Tarang Shah at tshah@generationequityadvisors.com for more information.

Generation Equity Advisors Expands its Technology M&A team, hires Tarang Shah and Nicolas Teboul

Los Angeles, CA - Generation Equity Advisors, LLC ("GEA") a leading technology and digital media focused investment bank and M&A advisor, announced the hiring of two new professionals to expand its M&A practice.  It hired Tarang Shah as a Managing Director and Nicolas Teboul as a Vice President.

"We are very pleased with our latest additions to our technology M&A team," noted Aaron Solganick, CEO and Founder of Generation Equity Advisors.  "Our efforts to build a premier technology focused M&A firm is on track. Both Tarang Shah and Nicolas Teboul will add significant value to our clients M&A and growth initiatives."

Prior to joining GEA, Tarang Shah was a venture capital and investment banking professional and author of an entrepreneurship and venture investing book, “Venture Capitalists At Work” (http://amzn.com/B006C9EM1Q). He is currently advising growth companies on fundraising, growth strategy and M&A.

At SoftBank Capital, a venture capital fund, Mr. Shah helped with investments in mobile, digital media and enterprise software startups totaling $50 million. In his venture career, he has reviewed 1,000+ startups and served as a board member and CEO advisor for dozen plus startups. His primary responsibility at SoftBank included deal sourcing, diligence and support of the U.S. west coast and to provide business development support to software and mobile portfolio companies. He worked side by side with the fund partners in all aspects of deal lifecycle including sourcing, diligence, term sheet negotiations, board participation, growth strategy and exits and acquisitions.

He led diligence for SoftBank Capital’s investments in ThumbPlay (mobile content), xAD (mobile search/directory), AdInFuse (mobile advertising), PureVideo (web video), Foomojo (virtual pets), DanceJam (dance video), Insider Pages (user reviews; acquired by Citysearch) and Communicado (enterprise VoIP) and served as a Board observer for AdInFuse (acquired by Velti; LSE-AIM:VEL), Foomojo, Communicado (acquired by Americom and Tone Software) and DanceJam.

At Bank of America, Tarang served as SVP of Startup Innovation and was responsible for strategic partnership development and risk/opportunity assessment of the tech startups in mobile payment, commerce and other emerging technology verticals. He also built a startup risk assessment practice leveraging his venture model and conducted 80+ startup/private vendor risk diligences.

Mr. Shah started his career as a product marketing manager for Qualcomm’s CDMA technology where he marketed CDMA technology to wireless carriers in Asia Pacific and won two product marketing awards. At Ericsson, he was a technical marketing manager and marketed 3G technology to customers worldwide. He was promoted to lead Ericsson’s first 3G (CDMA2000) wireless system of $200M in R&D as a systems product manager, which he helped bring to market with leading customers like China Unicom and Tata Wireless (India). At Ericsson, he was a go-to-guy for business cases for new products and technologies and secured funding for CDMA450, a $15M R&D product line. Tarang led commercialization of this product line with a cross-functional team of 30 members and secured customer trials around the world before joining SoftBank Capital in 2005.

He passed the CFA Level II in 2005 and holds MBA from Thunderbird and an MBA and BSEE from Gujarat University (India). He has developed a venture model, Startup Analysis Model (SAM) for assessing success potential of the startups. Tarang is also co-founder of a VC consulting firm Ariants and startup assessment firm Startup Meter (www.startup-meter.com).

Mr. Shah is based in Newport Beach, CA and will cover the mobile software, applications and internet sectors.

Nicolas Teboul is an experienced technology investment banker and joins GEA from Demers Beaulne (Montreal), G4 Solutions (Montreal) and Alternative Finance (Paris) where he focused on the origination of and execution of technology industry mergers and acquisitions. 

Mr. Teboul earned an MBA degree from Cornell University, a Master's degree in Economics from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (France) and a Bachelor's of Administration degree in Corporate Finance from Universite Paris Dauphine, Paris (France).

Mr. Teboul will be based in both Ithaca, NY and Montreal, Canada and will cover technology companies in the Northeast U.S., Canada and France. He is fluent in French and English.

About Generation Equity Advisors, LLC

Generation Equity Advisors is a leading technology and digital media focused investment bank and M&A advisor. Based in Los Angeles, CA, the firm specializes in providing M&A origination and execution for software, IT services, digital media, internet and mobile software companies globally. Its professionals have completed over $20 billion in transactions to date and are experienced M&A professionals.

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Private Technology Companies Leading M&A with 2,277 Deals Completed in 2012

According to research and analytic's firm CB Insights, private technology firms announced 2,277 M&A deals globally in 2012. In deals with disclosed valuations, $46.8B was paid for private technology companies. 30% of deals account for 80% of that value. Eight private companies purchased for more than $1B in 2012 with 6 being US-based. The year noted 190 M&A transactions per month on average for technology companies.

In summary, the following technology M&A trends were reported in 2012:

• 76% of technology companies acquired in 2012 had not raised institutional investment prior to acquisition.
• More than 50% of M&A deals are less than $50M and more than 80% of the acquisitions are less than $200M.
• (Only) Eight private technology companies acquired for $1B+
• California noted the most private technology companies acquired in 2012, followed by New York (#2) and Texas (#3).
• Google and Facebook were the most active acquirers announcing 12 acquisitions.
• 94% of acquisitions were made by strategic buyers. PE firms and financial sponsors comprised a small 6% of deal volume.
• The UK led international markets with the most private technology company acquisitions in 2012 followed by Canada (#2) and India (#3).
• On average, companies raised $25.4M and were acquired for an average of $172.0M.
• Medians: companies raised $16.6M and were acquired for $73.5M (medians are a better measure).
• eCommerce/mCommerce announced the highest level of acquisition activity followed by ad related businesses. Fifteen different industries saw more than 30 acquisitions showing the diversity of technology sub-areas seeing activity.

Overall, we expect the technology M&A market to improve in 2013. Especially in the U.S. where its economy is in recovery mode.

IT Services M&A Update - Q4 2012

Generation Equity Advisors has published its latest IT Services M&A Update for Q4 2012.

IT Services M&A Transaction Highlights

Buyers in the IT Services sector were very active in Q4 2012.

Highlights of IT Services M&A transactions in Q4 2012 include:

ü  CSC sells three of its divisions including its Italy unit, Credit Services unit and its Australian IT Staffing unit.

ü  Deloitte acquires two companies: The Monitor Group and Recumbinant Data Corp.

ü  Cognizant acquires six C1 Group subsidiaries in Germany and Switzerland.

ü  Hitachi Consulting acquires Celerant Consulting (Jan 2, 2013).

ü  AON Hewitt acquires Workday specialist IT services firm OmniPoint.

ü  PriceWaterhouseCoopers acquires Govt. IT services firm Ray Group International.

We believe companies in the IT Services sector will continue to consolidate in 2013 as the economy improves globally and uncertainty is settled.  China and Brazil are likely active buyers of U.S. based companies looking to expand. Although, we noted a number of U.S. based IT Services firms active in 2012. We expect this trend to continue in 2013.

Q4 2012 – M&A Update

Q4 2012 was not as disappointing as Q2 and Q3. Comparing October and November 2011 to the same period in 2012, announced deal value increased by 29% to US$394 Billion. Deal announcements, which fell by 15% to 1,801 in the period, have been slower to recover. Nonetheless, there were a few pockets of noteworthy activity – the U.S. Presidential Election followed by uncertainty in the U.S. “fiscal cliff” negotiations in Congress did not help M&A activity overall.

Technology companies, striving to keep their competitive edge alongside industry giants like Apple and Google, continue to use M&A to expand in-house innovation and operational capacity with an increased focus on more transformative acquisitions.

Cisco Systems announced three acquisitions in November 2012 alone and five total acquisitions for Q4 2012. These deals, carrying sizeable price-tags, aim to broaden Cisco’s networking equipment capabilities. The company’s largest acquisition helped Cisco move to acquire cloud computing company Meraki for US$1.2 Billion. The deal will help to expand Cisco’s Wi-Fi deployment models and reduce service costs to mid-market clients.

For the complete report, go to:  www.generationequityadvisors.com

 

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