Adam Holt
Partner
Adam has over 22 years of research, investing and advisory experience at Qatalyst, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Hambrecht & Quist. Most recently, Adam led the software practice at Qatalyst Partners, an M&A and capital advisory firm. During Adam’s tenure, Qatalyst announced or completed over $60B worth of software transactions including four of the largest software deals ever—the sale of Informatica to Permira for $5.4B, Concur to SAP for $8.3B, Netsuite to Oracle for $9.4B and LinkedIn to Microsoft for $28.1B. At Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan, Adam was ranked as the #1 software analyst on the Institutional Investor All-American Team in 2010, 2011 and 2012, and ranked #1 for six years in the Greenwich Institutional poll. Adam participated in more than 50 equity offerings totaling more than $8B in value that created over $100B in market cap. Adam has also helped lead roughly a dozen private investments. Past public clients include Advent Software, Blackbaud, Financial Engines, Microsoft, Oracle, Palo Alto Networks, Qliktech, Responsys, Salesforce, ServiceNow, SolarWinds, Splunk, SuccessFactors, Taleo, VMware and Workday. At Qatalyst, Adam helped lead transactions for Advent, CA, Citrix, Concur, Datalogix, Genesys, Informatica, Intuit, LinkedIn, Netsuite, RelateIQ and others. Adam
graduated Cum Laude from Princeton University with a B.A. in Religious Studies and lives in San Francisco with his wife and two daughters.