Partners
  David M. Jacquin
  Matthew Kelly
  Sam Madani
  Manoj Verma
  Peter Westley

David M. Jacquin
David Jacquin founded North Point Advisors in 2004. He has spent two decades of his career as an M&A advisor. Prior to founding North Point Advisors, he led M&A divisions for each of Piper Jaffray & Co, Merrill Lynch and Bank of America/Montgomery Securities. Additionally, David practiced law with Cravath, Swaine and Moore in New York and London, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions. He also worked as a consultant for Arthur Anderson and Company.

David Jacquin obtained a B.S. with honors from St. Louis University and earned his J.D. with honors from Georgetown University.  David lives in Sonoma, California with his wife Heidi and their two children, Hayley and Alec.
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Matthew Kelly
Matthew Kelly joined North Point Advisors in early 2005. Prior to joining North Point, Matt spent the majority of his financial career at Deutsche Bank Alex Brown and Franklin Templeton.

Matt earned a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder, majoring in Finance. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder. Matt lives in San Francisco with his wife, Jessica.
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Sam Madani
Sam Madani joined North Point Advisors in 2006. He has spent two decades in operations, M&A transactions, and post acquisitions at Zhone Technologies, Lucent, Cisco, and Hewlett Packard. Prior to his involvement with North Point Advisors, he was Vice President of Business Development and M&A at Zhone Technologies, He was also involved in historical multibillion dollar Telecom transactions while serving Ascend/Lucent and Cisco. Additionally, Sam has strong business and technology background in hardware, software, finance, and management and guides companies through their advisory boards.

Sam earned BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado and BA and MBA from Tehran University. He lives in Los Altos with his wife Nahid and their children Michael, and Michelle.
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Manoj Verma
Manoj Verma joined North Point Advisors in 2008, after having served as an advisor for the past several years. Manoj is passionate about the consumer Internet space and has over 8 years of experience with a variety of leading Internet companies in Strategy, Corporate and Business Development. He is actively involved as an advisor or Board member to start-ups, venture capital firms and angel investors. Prior to his involvement with North Point, he was most recently the VP of Corporate Development at IAC Search & Media. Prior to joining IAC, Manoj was at Yahoo! in a variety of Corporate Development, Business Development and Product Integration roles within the M&A group, Music and HotJobs businesses. Before Yahoo!, Mr. Verma co-headed Corporate Development at Amazon.com. He started his career in the Investment Banking Division at Lehman Brothers in New York and Hong Kong doing M&A and general Corporate Finance.

Manoj earned Bachelor of Social Science Degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Ottawa, and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Manoj lives in the South Bay with his wife Neera and their two children, Ria and Nikhil.
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Peter Westley
Peter Westley joined North Point Advisors in early 2007. Prior to joining the firm, he was a Partner and ran the Media and Internet practice at ThinkEquity Partners for several years and prior to that was a Managing Director at Salomon Smith Barney where he founded and ran the Online Media investment banking franchise. In total he has raised over $10 billion for media, technology and telecommunications clients in over 60 transactions. He has led a wide variety of deals including private placements, IPOs, follow-ons, convertible debt offerings, high yield debt offerings and both buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions. Selected lead-managed clients have included America Online, CNET, DoubleClick, Juno Online, Mail.com, Monster Worldwide, Women.com, Bresnan Communications and The McClatchy Company. Prior to Salomon, Peter worked at Canyon Partners, a distressed company hedge fund. He began his career in the M&A departments of E.F. Hutton and Smith Barney.

Peter graduated cum laude with an A.B. in government from Dartmouth College in 1986 and earned an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1991. He lives in Tiburon with his wife Lisa and his two daughters Sydney and Alexandra.
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