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Boutique Investment Banking Firm Marlin & Associates Expands Staff, Adds Two Senior Members, Opens Toronto Office
Former JP Morgan Investment Banker, Former SunGard Business Development Executive Join the M&A Team
| Source: Marlin & Associates
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - January 20, 2009) - Marlin & Associates ("M&A"), the New York and
Washington, DC-based boutique investment banking advisory and consulting
firm, today affirmed its leadership in advising U.S. and international
middle-market information and technology firms by announcing that Tom
Selby, former Vice President of Business Development and 13-year veteran of
SunGard Data Systems, and Byron Sproule, a former Executive Director in JP
Morgan's Technology Investment Banking Group, have joined M&A's investment
banking advisory team.
Tom Selby will be based in M&A's new Toronto office. Byron Sproule will be
based in M&A's New York City office.
"We're very pleased to have these two seasoned transaction professionals
join our team," said Ken Marlin, M&A's Founder and Managing Partner. "It's
coincidental that both are Canadian born and both have university degrees
in engineering. But, it is not coincidental that these two industry
leaders reinforce our philosophy of offering our clients access to advisors
that have in-depth expertise in investment banking, private equity, and
operating management, all focused on the global information technology
industry."
Byron Sproule brings more than 10 years of relevant technology investment
banking experience to M&A. He joins from JP Morgan's Technology Investment
Banking Group, after he first spent a number of years in the Technology
Investment Banking Groups at Lehman Brothers (NY and London) and Jefferies
Broadview. Byron has worked on acquisitions, divestitures and mergers of
public and private companies, leveraged buy-outs by financial sponsors,
initial public offerings, and the raising of debt and equity capital. He
has provided financial and strategic advice to public companies including:
Allscripts, Amdocs, Atos Origin, eFunds, IBM, and Syniverse; and to private
companies including: Ahura Scientific, Atreus Systems, Cedar Point
Communications, Egenera, Groove Mobile, and Systemonic.
"Byron has advised a wide range of public and private information
technology companies, in sectors from communication software and
infrastructure, to healthcare IT and IT services; from electronic payments
to content delivery platforms," Marlin continued. "He will bring our
clients the attention and perspective of a professional investment banker
who is well versed in our industry."
Tom Selby brings his own unique 20 year background to M&A. Tom began his
career as a software developer and entrepreneur, building a business based
around a product that he had developed. He then sold that business to a
brokerage-software business, which he then joined as VP of Sales &
Marketing. With Tom leading the sales effort, the company grew quickly,
and subsequently was sold to SunGard, where he rose to become Vice
President of Business Development for SunGard's North American Financial
Services unit. While at SunGard, Tom helped his division acquire firms in
verticals such as brokerage, trading, wealth, insurance, consulting, and
benefit administration.
"Tom has a keen eye for, and an appreciation of, information technology
solutions. We've known him for years," said Ken Marlin. "Tom's technical
background, transaction experience, financial skills, and his operating
experience meshes well with our culture and will make him a valued counsel
to M&A's clients."
About Marlin & Associates
Founded in 2002, Marlin & Associates New York LLC is a boutique investment
banking and strategic consulting firm focused on providing highly
strategic, transaction-related services to U.S. and international
middle-market firms engaged in technology, information, on-line media and
business services. The firm is based in New York City with offices in
Washington, DC and Toronto. The firm has been the recipient of numerous
awards, including being recognized as the Middle Market Investment Banking
Firm of the Year as well as the Middle Market Financing Agent of the Year -
Equity. The firm also has been awarded honors in multiple "Deal of the
Year" categories including: Financial Technology Deal of the Year,
Financial Services Deal of the Year, International Cross-Border Deal of the
Year, and for Middle Market Financing - Computer, Technology and
Telecommunications Deal of the Year.
M&A professionals have advised on more than 200 successfully completed
transactions in the technology and information services sector. Recent
transactions on which Marlin & Associates has advised include the sale of
Tenfore Systems Limited (London) to Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ : MORN ); the
sale of InfoDyne Corporation (Chicago) to IBM (NYSE : IBM ); and the sale of
StarMine Corporation of San Francisco to Thomson Reuters Corporation (NYSE : TRI ). Marlin & Associates initiated these transactions, helped to manage
the process, assisted in the negotiations, and acted as exclusive strategic
and financial advisor to the sellers. Information about M&A, as well as
information about other recent transactions on which M&A has advised, can
be found at www.MarlinLLC.com.