ROTH MKM Announces the Addition of Doug Gonsalves as Head of Technology Investment Banking

August 02, 2023 at 09:00 AM EDT

ROTH MKM, www.roth.com, a relationship-driven investment bank focused on serving growth companies and their investors, today announced that Doug Gonsalves has joined the firm as Managing Director and Head of Technology Investment Banking. Doug has over 25 years of investment banking experience advising companies operating across the enterprise software and digital media sectors and serving both domestic and international markets.

Doug’s focus throughout his career has been to advise technology companies on transformative capital formation and strategic transactions. He has accumulated extensive experience providing strategic and financial advisory services to entrepreneurs, board members and financial sponsors active in the technology sector. Based in San Francisco, Doug has advised on numerous domestic and cross border transactions involving major technology consolidators, as well as leading technology-focused private equity firms.

Aaron Gurewitz, President and Head of Investment Banking at ROTH MKM, commented, “We are very pleased to announce that Doug has joined the leadership team at ROTH MKM. Doug’s proven track record of developing creative solutions and outstanding outcomes for his clients fits well with ROTH MKM’s value-added approach to relationship banking. We continue to look for opportunities to expand our capabilities and add talent in those high-growth industry sectors aligned with our areas of focus.”

Doug commented, “I look forward to building on the impressive history of the ROTH MKM team and further leveraging its enviable position as noted thought leaders in the technology sector. My clients continue to uncover exciting new avenues for growth across the enterprise and consumer-facing technology ecosystems, and I believe the ROTH MKM platform is ideally positioned to provide the access to capital and strategic guidance necessary to bring those promising opportunities to fruition.”

Prior to joining ROTH MKM, Doug served as a Managing Director and head of the Technology M&A group at Truist Securities. During his career Doug also served as a Managing Director at ThinkEquity where he was head of Investment Banking and M&A, and served as a member of Management Committee. Doug's prior experience included senior relationship banking and M&A roles within the Technology group at Merrill Lynch & Co., and he began his career working in the Technology M&A groups at Banc of America Securities and Robertson Stephens.

Since 2014, ROTH MKM has been involved in approximately 200 transactions for its technology clients, with total transaction value of over $12.4 billion. (Source: ROTH MKM | 7/24/2023)

About ROTH MKM

ROTH MKM is a relationship-driven investment bank focused on serving growth companies and their investors. Our full-service platform provides capital raising, high impact equity research, macroeconomics, sales and trading, technical insights, derivatives strategies, M&A advisory and corporate access. Headquartered in Newport Beach, California, ROTH MKM is a privately held, employee owned organization and maintains offices throughout the U.S. For more information, please visit www.roth.com.