Stephan Leccese
Managing Director
Telephone: (212) 705-0427
Email: sleccese@needhamco.com
Stephan Leccese joined Needham & Company in 1997. Stephan’s primary responsibilities include expanding client relationships and developing, coordinating and implementing the firms’ strategy for a number of targeted industries, including Clean Technologies, Diversified Technologies, Industrial Manufacturing & Services, and Electronics Manufacturing Supply Chain. He has over 10 years of investment banking experience focused on growth-oriented companies. During his tenure at Needham, Stephan sourced and executed over 50 mandates for firm clients. His transaction experience includes equity and financial advisory transactions with both public and private companies, including some of the largest transactions in the firms’ history. Prior to joining Needham, he worked in the Business Assurance Group of Ernst & Young LLP in New York servicing some of the firms’ leading financial service clients. He graduated with honors from Queens College of the City University of New York with a BA in Accounting & Information Systems and holds a Certified Public Accountant license in New York State.
David Townes
Managing Director and Co-Founder
Telephone: (212) 705-0296
Email: dtownes@needhamco.com
David Townes co-founded Needham & Company in 1985. Having completed well over 100 IPO, Follow-on and M&A transactions at the firm, David has been responsible for many of the firm’s clients in semiconductors, semiconductor and electronics capital equipment, automation, engineering software, business services databases and software, high-frequency electronics, high-performance computing, terrestrial and space communications, advanced materials, lasers, photonics, photovoltaics, energy efficiency, display and imaging technologies, data storage technology, test and measurement equipment, medical devices, and a range of other technologies. Previously, he had been with Lehman Brothers for 13 years, working primarily with clients in the technology sector, but also in a wide range of other industries. He has an academic background in physics, economics, law and finance. He attended Oberlin College, University College, Oxford, Harvard Law School and NYU Business School.
Jack Higgins
Principal
Telephone: (617) 457-0916
Email: jhiggins@needhamco.com
Jack Higgins joined Needham & Company (having previously worked at Needham from 1993 to 1997) in 2007. Jack joined Needham from Janney Montgomery Scott, where he was a senior banker for the firm’s information technology security effort. Prior to joining Janney, he spent four years with Adams Harkness, working in the Semiconductor Device and Communications Technology banking groups. During his years with Adams Harkness, Jack was responsible for origination and execution of various public and private financings and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to working at Adams Harkness, Jack worked at Genuity (GTE Internetworking) in that service provider’s international line of business. He graduated from Colby College and received his MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.