NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2019
/PRNewswire/ -- Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. ("Oppenheimer") – a
leading investment bank, wealth manager, and a subsidiary of
Oppenheimer Holdings (NYSE: OPY) – today announced that
Henry Alfaro joined the Firm's
Global Technology Investment Banking team in San Francisco as a Managing Director focused
on Electronics, Hardware and Systems. Alfaro reports to
Robin Graham, Head of Technology,
Media and Communications Investment Banking.
This addition is part of a significant strategic expansion of
Oppenheimer's commitment to the technology industry under the
leadership of Robin Graham. Alfaro
is the latest prominent technology banking hire made by the Firm,
including Michael Buchbinder in
Education Technology, Rahul Buxani
in FinTech, Nitin Doke in Software,
Cloud & IT Infrastructure, and Angie
Pham in Internet & Digital Media. Other recent strategic
hires include Managing Directors Jens
Munk and Ramon De Paz, who
joined the global technology team in Frankfurt and London, respectively.
"We continue to augment our technology banking team with highly
experienced investment bankers to broaden the Firm's capabilities
and deepen our technology sub-sector expertise," said Graham. "The
addition of Henry to this team marks a notable expansion of the
Firm's expertise. With Henry's experience and relationships in the
semiconductor and electronics sectors, Oppenheimer is well
positioned to offer its clients sophisticated and informed advice
backed by our global platform's full set of products and
services."
Alfaro joins Oppenheimer with over 20 years of experience
advising clients in the semiconductor, semiconductor equipment,
optical components and hardware sectors. Previously, Alfaro
developed and managed the electronics and semiconductor practice at
Craig-Hallum Capital Group. In addition, he spent approximately ten
years at Prudential Securities in New
York and San Francisco as
Managing Director and Head of the Semiconductor Practice.
"Semiconductors are pervasive and the engines that are driving
our emerging technologies such as 5G, mobile, cloud, Internet of
Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and more," said Alfaro.
"High growth companies in these sectors are continually challenged
not only with the required capital and scale but also with the
appropriate avenues to achieve institutional visibility. I look
forward to assisting these companies by leveraging my expertise and
relationships on the Oppenheimer platform."
Alfaro earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Stanford University and earned a Masters of
Business Administration from The J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of
Management at Northwestern
University.
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. (Oppenheimer), a principal subsidiary
of Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. (OPY on the New York Stock Exchange),
and its affiliates provide a full range of wealth management,
securities brokerage and investment banking services to
high-net-worth individuals, families, corporate executives, local
governments, businesses and institutions.
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