CEO
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Hamilton joined mergermarket in 2001 and has 17 years of experience in Financial Information, including 5 years at Thomson Financial where he was European Sales Manager for the Investment Banking and Capital Markets division.
Hamilton's vision for The Mergermarket Group is to ensure that the business is recognised as the most significant global provider of corporate, financial intelligence and analysis. Hamilton's strategic focus will be on developing new products and reviewing potential acquisitions for The Mergermarket Group.
He is a graduate of Liverpool University with a honours degree in Psychology.
Email Hamilton: hm@mergermarket.com
CFO
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Jonathan joined Mergermarket in 2007 following our acquisition by the FT Group, a division of Pearson Plc. He has over fifteen years experience in finance and publishing having worked for The Economist, the Financial Times and Financial Times Business. Before becoming CFO he headed up Mergermarket's new product development team. He is a Graduate of Middlesex University Business School.
Email Jonathan: jonathan.gomer@mergermarket.com
Group Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder
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Charlie has been covering exclusively European mergers and acquisitions since 1995. His background includes being the senior M&A correspondent at Financial News and co-founder of its M&A monitoring business. He has also been Editor of Corporate Money and has worked at Newsweek in New York. He graduated from the London School of Economics in 1992 and attained an MIA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in 1994.
Email Charlie: charlie.welsh@mergermarket.com
Managing Director, EMEA
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Angus is Managing Director of The Mergermarket Group, EMEA, based in our London office. He is responsible for leading the commercial and strategic efforts across the region. He has been with the company since February 2002, moving to New York in January 2004 to launch mergermarket in the Americas, and Sydney in September 2007 to open the Australian office. He returned to London in May 2009 as the Managing Director for the mergermarket product, where he was responsible for commercial operations and strategy for the product globally. Angus graduated from University West of England with BA (Hons) in Business Studies.
Email Angus: angusm@mergermarket.com
Managing Director, Americas
Head of Business Development
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Marc joined mergermarket in October 2003 to assist with the initial launch of mergermarket in North America and lead the sales efforts. With over 20 years of experience in the financial services arena, Marc has established key relationships and gained valuable insights into the investment banking, advisory, consulting, legal, and corporate industries. Marc current responsibilities include overseeing all commercial aspects of the Americas in addition to exploring new business development ideas.
Email Marc: marc.katz@mergermarket.com
Managing Director, Asia-Pacific
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Simon is Managing Director of The Mergermarket Group in Asia-Pacific, based in our Hong Kong office. He is responsible for leading our commercial and strategic efforts across the region. From 2003 until 2009 Simon ran Remark, our publishing and events division, having joined the company in 2000 as an Account Manager with mergermarket.com. Previously he was at Egon Zehnder International. He graduated from Cambridge University with an English degree in 1997.
Email Simon: simon.anam@mergermarket.com
Managing Director, mergermarket
Ben has been working at The Mergermarket Group since October 2004. Initially working in Corporate Sales for mergermarket, he then moved to the Advisory team, looking after the Italian, Swiss & Austrian markets. In 2007, Ben became Head of Sales for wealthmonitor, a position he oversaw for 18 months. In summer 2009, Ben returned to working on the mergermarket product as Head of Sales for the EMEA region overseeing a sales team of 16. In spring 2010, Ben took over as global Managing Director for mergermarket, assuming overall responsibility for the mergermarket product both commercially and operationally.
Ben is a graduate of Exeter University where he read History & Politics. Prior to joining mergermarket, Ben held a number of sales & sales management positions in the Technology sector, working for companies such as QAS & Messagelabs.
Email Ben: ben.johnson@mergermarket.com
Head of Sales - EMEA
Ben joined the Mergermarket Group in November 2007. Initially working in Advisory Sales covering CEE and Africa, he then moved to cover the Nordic region. Ben is a graduate of Southampton University where he read Geography. Prior to joining mergermarket, Ben spent 3 years as an Associate for Shield Corporate Finance specializing in sell side M&A. Ben is now Head of Sales for the EMEA region of mergermarket overseeing a sales team of 16.
Email Ben: ben.rumble@mergermarket.com
Head of Sales - Americas
Lauren joined The Mergermarket Group in June 2006 initially selling the mergermarket product to US and Canadian Corporations. Within six months, she was moved into an Advisory Sales role and successfully covered the Southeast and Southwest US market. In April 2010, Lauren was appointed to lead the mergermarket Sales efforts in North and South America and is overseeing a sales team of 10 professionals. Prior to joining The Mergermarket Group, Lauren was a Business Development and Marketing professional in the Corporate Finance Group at Fitch Ratings. Lauren is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island, in Kingston, RI where she concentrated on Marketing.
Email Lauren: lauren.cozier@mergermarket.com
Head of Sales - Asia
Tom combines his ability to identify business opportunities with his strategic planning and communications skills. He manages and coaches the mergermarket Asia team to achieve individual and team sales targets. Tom joined The Mergermarket Group in 2002 from Cordell, a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier.
Email Tom: tom.wadham@debtwire.com
Global Editor-in-Chief, mergermarket
Giovanni became the Editor of mergermarket in October 2007 after having been appointed Editor of wealthmonitor in July 2006, post which he still retains. Between September 2005 and July 2006 he was Frankfurt Bureau Chief. Prior to that, he was Italian Correspondent from the Milan Bureau for three years and telecommunications, leisure and media reporter from London for one and half years. Before joining Mergermarket in 2001, Giovanni spent ten months in the Italian Air Force. He graduated in Economics at the University of Brescia, Italy, and also spent nine months at the University of Mainz in Germany as an exchange student. He also worked at Commerzbank and wrote his dissertation degree thesis on "Private Banking in the German market: the case of Commerzbank".
Email Giovanni: giovanni.amodeo@mergermarket.com
Editor, mergermarket Asia-Pacific
Heather West joined mergermarket in 2005 in New York as a reporter, and led coverage of the oil and gas, electric utility and alternative energy sectors for more than three years. She served as Deputy Editor for mergermarket, Americas, before moving to Hong Kong to head up the editorial team for Asia-Pacific. Heather previously worked at Bloomberg L.P. and holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Email Heather: heather.west@mergermarket.com
Head of Research
Elias joined mergermarket in February 2003 and is currently responsible for overseeing the quality and product development of the deals database, having initially worked as a Merger Arbitrage Analyst for the dealReporter team. Elias previously worked at Morgan Stanley covering mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets. He graduated from Imperial College London with an MSc in Finance and from University College London with a BEng in Mechanical Engineering.
Email Elias: elias.latsis@mergermarket.com
Global Head of CRM
Marc joined mergermarket in July 2000, and currently heads up the CRM teams in Europe, USA and Asia-Pacific with responsibility for ensuring clients maximise their investment in mergermarket. He initially worked in the mergermarket research team before moving to CRM, and subsequently spent 3 1/2 years in the New York office helping to build the US business, before returning to London in 2007. He has a degree in Accountancy and Finance from Hull University.
Email Marc: marc.talbot@mergermarket.com
Head of CRM - Americas
Jordan is Head of CRM for The Mergermarket Group in the Americas. He is responsible for client relationships, training, and maximizing product usage in that region. Jordan joined the firm in July of 2007, spending 2 years as a CRM for both mergermarket and Debtwire. He is a graduate of Fordham University in New York.
Email Jordan: jordan.lert@mergermarket.com
Head of CRM - Asia Pacific
Anna joined mergermarket in London in August 2007 and spent 2 years as a Customer Relationship Manager looking after the Scandinavian clients before becoming the mergermarket CRM manager in 2009. In 2010 Anna moved to Hong Kong to head up the Asia Pacific CRM team where she is responsible for client relationships and maximising client value across all products. Anna graduated from the University of Örebro in Sweden with a degree in Communication.
Email Anna: anna.lindahl@mergermarket.com
Head of CRM - EMEA
Felipe is Head of CRM for The Mergermarket Group in EMEA, with 23 CRM Consultants working across 6 products. Felipe's responsibility is to ensure that clients maximize the return on their investment in our products and to understand the changing needs of our client base. He joined the company in 2007 to work for CRM looking after clients in Spain & Portugal. Felipe has a degree in Economics from the University of Alicante.
Email Felipe: felipe.poveda@mergermarket.com
Global Head of Marketing and PR
Sandra is responsible for marketing across The Mergermarket Group. She initially joined mergermarket in October 2006 as the Marketing Manager for the Americas based in New York. Prior to joining the company, she managed the marketing and communications for an online content provider on emerging markets. Sandra has a degree in Marketing and International Business from HEC Montreal.
Email Sandra: sandra.desautels@mergermarket.com
CTO
Mark joined mergermarket in July 2000. After graduating from Newcastle University in 1996, Mark went on to study for a Masters in Information Systems at Christ Church College Canterbury, graduating in 1998. Before joining the company, Mark worked for 2 years at Blue Curve, an internet consultancy. While there he worked and managed database driven web projects including: subscription based, content driven, websites; insurance call centre (claims tracking and workflow) groupware; and intranet "best practice" consultancy.
Email Mark: mark.lissaman@mergermarket.com
Managing Director, Remark
Erik joined The Mergermarket Group in March 2005 and has 14 years of experience working in the financial information and publishing industries. As Managing Director of Remark, the market research, events and publications division of The Mergermarket Group, Erik is responsible for overseeing all sales, editorial and operational activity for Remark initiatives globally. Previously Erik was with Forrester Research and prior to that with the Seybold division of Ziff-Davis/Key3Media. Erik graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with degrees in Political Science and Economics and also served in the United States Army Reserve for 8 years.
Email Erik: erik.wickman@mergermarket.com
Sales Director, EMEA, Remark
Simon joined mergermarket in April 2007 to launch advertising and video content on mergermarket.com and currently heads up the EMEA sales team for all Remark events, publications and research. Prior to mergermarket Simon held senior management positions at EMAP, Euromoney Institutional Investor and PR Newswire with a focus on continental Europe and the Middle East. Simon graduated from the University of Manchester with a degree in Politics and Philosophy.
Email Simon: simon.elliott@mergermarket.com
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This report provides a comprehensive review of North American M&A in the first half of 2010, with an in-depth analysis of recent activity and forward-looking insight for the remainder of the year. Produced in association with Merrill Datasite.
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