Peter Bennett
Managing Director, Head of Private Placements

Telephone: (212) 705-0411
Email: pbennett@needhamco.com

Peter Bennett joined Needham & Company in 2008. Peter has more than 20 years of private placement experience executing private financings for a wide variety of domestic and international corporate issuers. He has executed more than 100 private finance transactions in his career, raising over $6.0 billion. He has broad industry experience in the business services, consumer, industrial, healthcare and life sciences, media, and technology sectors. Prior to joining Needham, Peter was a partner at Consumer Growth Partners, a private equity firm. During his career, he founded and headed the private placement practices at Lazard Middle Market, Piper Jaffray and Deutsche Bank. Peter also served as a senior private placement banker at Lehman Brothers and Chase Securities. He holds a BA degree in Political Science from the University of Minnesota. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts.

Jessica Cracolici
Vice President

Telephone: (212) 705-0354
Email: jcracolici@needhamco.com

Jessica Cracolici joined Needham & Company in 2009. She has worked on over 70 private placement transactions raising over $1.5 billion for public and private companies across various growth sectors, including aerospace & defense, alternative energy, healthcare, technology, media and consumer. Prior to joining Needham, she worked at Oppenheimer and Prudential Securities. She received a BS in Chemistry from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2000.