Prior to co-founding TwentyTen, David Martin was an Investment Banker at Morgan Stanley in New York. He was responsible for providing both large-capitalization and emerging growth technology companies with assistance on a variety of strategic and corporate finance transactions. His clients included IBM, Oracle, Silicon Laboratories, webMethods, Compuware and Computer Associates. David has extensive experience in both capital-raising and strategic advisory assignments. He played active roles in several landmark transactions in the software industry.
Previously, he was an investment banker in Merrill Lynch's High Yield Group where he executed bond issuances for clients in a variety of industries. David began his investment banking career in 1994 with St. Quintin, a mid-sized firm in London where he worked on commercial real estate portfolio acquisitions and divestitures. Before entering the Investment Banking industry, David founded a leather importing firm and served on the Board of Directors of the Paraguayan-American Chamber of Commerce.
David received an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago with concentrations in Finance and Accounting, an M.A. in Religion from Yale University and a B.A. in History from Washington and Lee University.
