PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Janney Montgomery Scott ("Janney"), a leading full-service investment banking and financial services firm, is pleased to announce the hiring of Greg Roth as Managing Director in the Technology and Media Group within the Firm’s Investment Banking group. Mr. Roth will focus on the software sector.
With over 18 years of technology investment banking experience, Roth has closed over 80 M&A and financing transactions totaling more than $28 billion. Prior to joining Janney, he served as Managing Director at ThinkEquity LLC, where he was responsible for the Software practice, as well as venture capital/private equity coverage on the West Coast. Additional experience included serving as Managing Director at Hercules Technology Growth Capital where he concentrated on providing equity and debt financing to venture and private equity-sponsored technology companies, and senior investment banking roles at Credit Suisse and Piper Jaffray. He received his M.B.A. in finance from University of Pennsylvania, and his B.A. in Organizational Behavior and Management and Political Science from Brown University.
"Janney continues to demonstrate its commitment toward the growth of our core industry verticals with the addition of Greg,” said Christopher White, Head of Investment Banking. “He brings a wealth of experience in the software sector, as well as extensive knowledge of the technology sector and the West Coast venture community, that will add further depth to our already solid Technology and Media Group. We are excited to have him join our growing team."
Roth will work alongside Peter Blackwood, Head of the Technology and Media investment banking group and Robert Dickey, out of Janney’s newly established investment banking office in San Francisco.
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Established in 1832, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC is a leading full-service financial services and investment banking firm serving individual, corporate, institutional and government clients. Janney is an independently operated subsidiary of The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, the seventh largest mutual insurance company in the nation based on capital, and is a member of the New York Stock Exchange, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.