Bio

Mr. Stoneberg has devoted his career to starting, growing, financing, buying and selling growth companies, primarily in the technology sector. As an investment banker and private equity and debt investor, he has advised or invested in over 100 acquisitions, public offerings, private placements and strategic partnerships representing over $13 billion in transaction value. He has extensive experience as a board member and strategic advisor to public and private companies in the areas of raising equity and debt capital, mergers and acquisitions, management succession, executive compensation and maximizing shareholder value through timely liquidity events. He has over three decades of experience in the technology industry and has chaired and been a member of multiple boards and board committees. Prior to Architect Partners, Peter was a Managing Director at Dresner Partners and was the Managing Partner of Velocity Ventures, LLC (“Velocity Ventures”), a merchant banking and M&A advisory firm that he founded in 2000. He is currently the Chairman of the Nominating/Governance Committee and an Independent Director of Kilroy Realty (NYSE:KRC), a $10 billion (EV) REIT specializing in developing and managing Class A office buildings for clients like Apple, Amazon, LinkedIn, Dropbox and Stanford University. Mr. Stoneberg was also an Investment Partner with Bank of America Capital Investors (“BACI”), a private equity firm where he specialized in growth and buyout capital for public and private technology companies. Mr. Stoneberg also served as Senior Managing Director of Montgomery Securities, where he founded and led the Technology M&A group which he built from ground zero to the #1 ranked Tech M&A advisor in the world (1997). Mr. Stoneberg has also served in various other investment banking and management roles, including Managing Director of Broadview Associates, Co-Founder and President of Data/Voice Solutions Corp and Product Marketing Manager for IBM and ROLM Corp. He also was an investor and on the boards of Cupertino Electric, Osprey Ventures, Historic Motorsports Productions, Saleslogix Corp. and Netcom Systems. Mr. Stoneberg’s non-profit activities include being the founder of the San Francisco America’s Cup Organizing Committee, Commodore of St. Francis Yacht Club, Chair of the Investment Committee for the St. Francis Sailing Foundation and Director of the Atlas Peak Appellation Association in Napa, CA. Mr. Stoneberg received his Bachelor’s Degree in Business from the University of Colorado and has completed the Directors' College at the Stanford University Law School.