David  Dolan, Vice President
Matt  Fiore, Vice President
Robert  Lung, CFA, Vice President






Joel  Strauch

Joel Strauch is a Managing Director at Signal Hill Updata and was a Partner at Updata Advisors after joining the firm in 2005. He leads the firm's Infrastructure Software practice. Mr. Strauch has significant experience both in investment banking and in advising high-growth technology companies, and has completed more than 50 transactions with aggregate value in excess of $3.5 billion. Mr. Strauch has completed transactions on behalf of portfolio companies of leading financial investors, as well as with a number of both large and mid-sized technology companies.

Previously, Mr. Strauch was a Senior Vice President at Katalyst, a private investment and advisory firm for technology and life sciences companies. He held senior investment banking roles at technology-focused investment banking firms including First Albany Corporation, H.C. Wainwright & Co., and Alex. Brown & Sons, where he completed a wide range of M&A, equity and debt transactions for leading vendors across enterprise technology and other sectors. Earlier in his career, Mr. Strauch served as Manager, Financial Analysis, Mergers & Acquisitions for Edison Mission Energy, a subsidiary of Southern California Edison and a leading developer of independent power generation facilities.

Mr. Strauch received a B.B.A. in finance, summa cum laude, from Loyola College in Maryland.






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