Pooyan Mehdizadeh rejoined Needham & Company in September 2012 and leads the M&A practice at Needham & Company. He has more than 25 years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining Needham & Company as a senior member of the M&A group, Pooyan was a Managing Director at ThinkEquity. He has successfully represented public and […]

Jim Apostolides joined Needham & Company in 2008 as a Managing Director in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group and is also the Chairman of the Firm’s Fairness Opinion Committee. He has decades of experience as an investment banker, a strategy consultant and a corporate executive, and has completed a very large number of transactions of […]

Chad Keck joined Needham & Company in 1991. Throughout his career, he has focused on the firm’s activities in semiconductors and semiconductor equipment. He was also instrumental in building the firm’s business in Asia helping underwrite the IPO’s of China-based companies in the semiconductor and solar sectors. Since opening the Menlo Park office in 1991, […]

Ehud Eisenstein joined Needham & Company in 2010 and is a Managing Director as well as Head of Israeli Banking. He has taken an active role in accelerating the firm’s business in Israel, delivering the full spectrum of financing and advisory capabilities to Israeli emerging growth companies, both public and private. Prior to joining Needham, […]

Chris Smajdor joined Needham & Company in 2008 and currently serves as a Managing Director and Head of Internet & Digital Media Investment Banking. Chris works with both private and public companies across all categories of capital markets and M&A transactions including sell-side and buy-side advisory, IPOs, public follow-on offerings and private placements. Verticals of […]

Mike Staff joined Needham & Company in 2006 and currently serves as a Managing Director out of Needham’s Boston office. His responsibilities include working on IPOs, mergers & acquisitions, and private financings across both Consumer and B2B businesses. Verticals of focus include e-Commerce, Marketplaces, Education Technology, Financial Technology, Internet & Tech-Enabled Services, SMB Software and […]

Simon Gill rejoined Needham & Company in January 2010, having previously been a senior healthcare banker at the firm. In the last 15 years Simon has completed over 200 transactions for life science companies. These include IPOs, Follow-on Offerings and Registered Direct Offerings, PIPEs, Private Placements, Convertible Debt, Royalty Financings, M&A Advisory, Shareholder Rights Plans […]

Laura Black joined Needham & Company in 1999 and is a seasoned corporate finance professional as well as an experienced Board member. With over 30 years of experience in high technology, business strategy and finance, she has refined her expertise in developing shareholder value creation strategies and advising companies on equity capital raising and M&A. […]

Mel S. Lavitt joined Needham & Company in 2009. Mel’s professional career in investment banking has included hundreds of capital market transactions accounting for several billion dollars of equity and debt financing. In July 2007, he was vice chairman and managing director of C.E. Unterberg, Towbin, when it was purchased by Collins Stewart, LLC. Upon […]

Navdeep Saini joined Needham & Company in 2007. At Needham, his responsibilities include the origination and execution of financing and M&A transactions. Prior to Needham, Navdeep has worked with technology companies, Motorola and Freescale Semiconductor, where he held positions in engineering and chip design. In the summer of 2006, he worked with a venture capital […]