Bio

Nicholas' banking career spans 25 years. Prior to co-founding DBO Partners, he was a Managing Director and Head of Global Technology Mergers & Acquisitions at Morgan Stanley. In this role he was responsible for managing relationships and advising on M&A transactions for leading global technology companies including Advanced Micro Devices, Applied Materials, Arcsight, Atmel, CNET, eBay, Electronic Arts, Ingram Micro, Intuit, Oracle, Omniture, Qlogic, Rightnow, Sandisk, Semtech and Zappos. He has completed transactions valued in excess of $100 billion and has extensive experience representing both buyers and sellers, structuring and negotiating significant JV’s and advising on activist and hostile situations. Prior to joining the Morgan Stanley’s Technology M&A Group in 1996, Nicholas was a Vice President in the Financial Sponsor Group at Morgan Stanley and an Associate in the High Yield Finance Group at First Boston in New York City. In these roles he worked with leading private equity firms and their portfolio companies as well as large public companies structuring and executing leveraged buyouts, initial public offerings and highly leveraged financings. Prior to attending business school, he completed the management program and was corporate finance officer focused on large multinational clients at JP Morgan in New York City. Nicholas is a graduate of Williams College with a BA in Economics and of the Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College with an MBA.