Carter Goman joined Needham & Company in 2026 as a Senior Research Analyst to further expand its coverage of Critical Minerals, Power, and Energy Technology. With over 10 years of investing and corporate experience, Carter was most recently at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, the largest nuclear fusion company in the US. Prior to that, Carter spent […]

Sean Milligan joined Needham & Company in 2025 to further expand its coverage of Power, Energy, Infrastructure Technology, including clean tech and renewables. With over 15 years of experience in research and sales, Sean most recently served as a Director at Janney Montgomery Scott, where he spent the last three years playing a key role […]

Austin Bohlig joined Needham & Company in 2025 covering Disruptive Industrial Tech with a focus on Drones, Industrial Robotics, and Digital Manufacturing. Prior to joining Needham, Austin served as the Head of Investor Relations at Markforged, a publicly traded additive manufacturing company. He also spent nearly two years at Deepwater Asset Management, helping the firm […]

Brian Perrault rejoined Needham & Company in July 2022, having previously been a technology banker and senior member of the M&A group at the firm. Brian’s M&A and capital raising experience includes substantial complex corporate carve-out, public-to-public mergers, founder-led going private, IPO, follow on offering and shareholder activism experience in numerous industries, end markets and […]

Chris Pierce joined Needham & Company, LLC in 2020 as a research analyst covering Internet Services, transitioning from an equity trading background. He also covers Transportation Technology. Most recently, he spent four years Balyasny Asset Management trading TMT & HC out of their San Francisco office. Prior to that he spent 10 years as a […]

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. […]

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 […]

Scott Glaid joined Needham & Company in 2006. Prior to joining Needham, Scott was a senior analyst at technology investment bank Ion Partners LLC. He possesses a Masters of Finance from the Institute of Political Studies, Paris, and graduated with highest honors from Boston College. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.

Jim King joined Needham & Company in 1993. Jim currently heads Needham’s Semiconductor Supply Chain and Capital Equipment activities. While at Needham & Company, he has been responsible for the execution of over 100 equity financings and advisory transactions worth over $15 billion for technology companies. Additionally, Jim has significant technology operations and business strategy […]

Jim Ricchiuti joined Needham & Company in 1999 and covers the Advanced Industrial Technologies and Environmental Technologies sectors at Needham, including companies in the industrial laser, instrumentation, digital manufacturing, machine vision and robotics subsectors. He joined Needham & Company’s equity research team in May 1999. Prior to joining Needham, Jim was with Lehman Brothers for […]