Meet Our Team

including 21 years at Morgan Stanley, where he was Chief Administrative Officer and a member of the firm’s operating committee. Mr. McClelland was formerly Chairman of the Board of the United Way of New York City and is a member of Mayor Bloomberg’s Commission on Poverty. He holds a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering and an MBA from Stanford University.

investment banking group. Mr. Smith also served as a corporate executive at Novell, most recently as Vice President of Business Development. He began his professional career as a researcher working on distributed computing technologies under a grant from the IBM Corporation. Mr. Smith received both his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and is a member of Eta Kappa Nu. He serves as the Chairman of the Rife Scholarship Fund, and is the past Chairman of the Performing Arts Advisory Council for the University of Notre Dame.

Platinum Technology, the Gartner Group, Chiron, Siemens, Viag AG and NTT. Mr. Josephson began his career in Morgan Stanley’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group in New York in 1988. He subsequently moved to Hong Kong to run the firm’s M&A practice in non-Japan Asia. When Robert Greenhill left Morgan Stanley to become Chairman and CEO of Smith Barney (now Citigroup), he hired Mr. Josephson to run the firm’s Investment Banking Division in Asia. While serving in that role, Smith Barney lead-managed its first non-US Dollar denominated IPO (Qingling Motors), and Mr. Josephson advised numerous multinationals on their entry into the Chinese market, including the Sprint Corporation and Universal Studios. Mr. Josephson received an MBA from Columbia Business School (where he graduated first in his class of 500) and received his A.B. from Princeton University, Summa Cum Laude.

analyst for the Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Technology Group. Over the course of his equity research career (1992-2004), Mr. Parmelee was consistently recognized as a top ranked analyst covering the wireline telecom equipment market by leading external polls including Greenwich Associates (#1 ranking in 1999 and 2000), Institutional Investor Magazine (1997-2002, #2 ranking in 2001), The Wall Street Journal (named 5 times to their Best on the Street list) and Reuters (2 #1 rankings). Mr. Parmelee executed as the research analyst for the lead investment bank over 15 initial public (IPO) and secondary offerings of securities raising over $4.1 billion in common stock and over $1.1 billion in subordinated notes. He also acted as an advisor ("over the wall") on leading communications mergers/acquisitions including Cerent Corporation’s $6.9 billion merger with Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks’ $9.1 billion merger with Bay Networks and Ascend Communications’ $2.9 billion merger with Cascade Communications. Prior to his career in equity research, Mr. Parmelee was a senior systems consultant for Andersen Consulting (now known as Accenture) with a focus on serving the aerospace/defense industry. Mr. Parmelee holds a B.A. in Economics from Trinity College and an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School.

advertising sector in 2005. Formerly, Mr. Barry was the Internet Analyst at Delafield Hambrecht where he focused on on-line advertising. Prior to joining Delafield Hambrecht, Mr. Barry was in Account Management at Bozell Worldwide, a New York-based advertising agency. Mr. Barry has a BA from Princeton University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

acquisitions and investments in the Growth Markets and Japan. Mr. Mendoza's previous experience includes over twelve years spent at Morgan Stanley & Co., most recently as an Executive Director in the Investment Banking Division. During his tenure at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Mendoza served in New York, London and Tokyo and was involved in a wide range of cross-border mergers and acquisitions activity with major multi-national corporations, as well as in significant activity with major private equity firms. Mr. Mendoza received a Landegger Program Certificate in International Business Diplomacy and an MBA from Georgetown University. He received his AB. from Princeton University.

developed and marketed a tax-oriented, leveraged purchase-leaseback structure to privatize US municipal infrastructure assets. Before Atherton Vista Capital, Mr. Riskas co-founded Trinity Advisors, which provided advisory services to institutional investors in connection with highly structured, domestic and cross-border leveraged lease transactions, project financings and buyouts. Prior to Trinity Advisors, Mr. Riskas was a Partner and SVP at Comdisco Financial Services where he headed the leveraged lease equity placement group. A lifetime resident of the Bay Area, Mr. Riskas serves on the UCLA Foundation Board of Governors, the Board of Directors of the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford and the COPF Foundation. He is a past President of the Menlo Circus Club, member of the Board of Trustees of Menlo School and Elder of the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Riskas is a published author of articles on tax-oriented leveraged leasing. He received both his BA in Economics and his MBA in Accounting and Finance degrees from the University of California – Los Angeles.

and over 13 years of technology banking experience. Throughout his career, Wayne has worked on a number of significant transactions in and out of the technology sector on behalf of both corporate clients and private equity. He has advised on transactions for clients including Automatic Data Processing, Alliance Data Systems, AT&T, Blackstone, Carlyle, Cognos, EMC, General Atlantic, Hellman & Friedman, HP, IBM, KKR and SunGard. Mr. Kawarabayashi received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in International Relations from Georgetown University.

focused exclusively on the enterprise software sector. As a research analyst, he helped execute over 25 initial public (IPO) and secondary offerings raising over $3 billion in common stock. Financings included public offerings for Altiris, Ariba, Bluestone, Broadbase, BEA, Extensity, Mercury, Opsware, TIBCO, and WebEx among others. Prior to his investment career, Mr. Kong founded a private web design firm and received a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia and a MS in environmental engineering from University of Florida.

focused on M&A, restructuring and private equity at Lazard, Greenhill, and ThinkEquity. Mr. Winter began his career at McKinsey & Company. Mr. Winter graduated with a BA in Public Policy from Stanford University and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Technology Investment Banking group at Piper Jaffray & Co., a firm he joined in 2000. Mr. Kowalzyk has extensive transaction experience including buy-side, sell-side, fairness opinions, cross-border, hostile and defense advisory assignments. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kowalzyk worked in the ventures group at Koch Industries and in the corporate finance group at Sprint. Over the course of his investment banking career Mr. Kowalzyk has worked with several leading technology companies, including ADC Telecom, Sun Microsystems, WPP Group, Interwoven, WebEx, Polycom, US Robotics, Andrew Wireless, Inter-Tel and National Semiconductor among others. Mr. Kowalzyk received a B.S. in Finance from Kansas State University.

Advisors. He oversees and runs the day to day strategic operational functions of the firm: finance and accounting, operations, human resources, and facilities. Prior to joining Union Square Advisors, Mr. Arcilla was Founder and Managing Partner with Saddlebrook Partners LLC, a boutique securities compliance consulting firm. Prior to Saddlebrook Partners, Mr. Arcilla was Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer of Merriman Curhan Ford & Co., an investment banking boutique with oversight of the firm's compliance related activities. Formerly, Mr. Arcilla was Director of Compliance with Hoefer & Arnett, Inc., an institutional sales firm where he oversaw the firm's compliance programs. Earlier Mr. Arcilla began his career as a Senior Compliance Examiner with FINRA in Philadelphia and San Francisco, where he lead, reviewed, and reported member compliance through onsite examinations of member firms. Mr. Arcilla graduated from Rutgers University, earning a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance. Dennis enjoys golf and is an avid traveler. He is a native of Washington Township, New Jersey.

such as ASML Holding N.V., Ceridian, SLM Corp., Paladin, and the Korea Asset Management Corporation. Mr. Kim received his B.S. in Finance and International Business from Georgetown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Fankhauser worked at Wachovia. Over the course of his investment banking career Mr. Fankhauser has worked with many leading companies including Disney, IAC, News Corp., Zynga, Groupon, Bankrate, Workday and Coupons.com among others. Mr. Fankhauser received a M.S. in Accountancy and a B.S. in Analytical Finance from Wake Forest University.

NationalBLS, the first national online listing service for home buyers. Prior to NationalBLS, Nate was an Associate at Lehman Brothers Venture Partners and Gabriel Venture Partners, where he invested in Internet, mobile, and communications startups. Nate began his career at Seven Hills Partners, an investment banking advisory boutique in San Francisco, CA. Nate received a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and a Minor in Economics from Stanford University.

Thompson Rivers in Canada and MD University in India respectively. He received his MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Lokesh is an avid traveler, and he enjoys photography.

Engineering and Computer Science from University of California – Berkeley and earned a MBA in Finance and Strategic Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.