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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