Owen Okeeffe
Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, Head of Global Technology M&A
- Role
- Head of Global Technology m & a at Morgan Stanley
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Owen Okeeffe
Investment banker advising technology company Boards and executives on M&A, with a track record of achieving many of the highest multiple and premium outcomes in the tech sector. Advised on 3 of top 10 revenue multiple (2 of 3 highest multiple public sellsides) and 3 of top 10 premia deals in tech sector over the last decade. Adventure enthusiast, love to skydive, BASE jump, scuba, trail run, explore the planet. Recently traveled to 26 countries in 6.5 months during a sabbatical. Wellness and mental health advocate. Truth seeker. Work with non profits in areas of mental health, trauma healing, education, environment. Passion for helping empower healers and guardians of the earth. Advisor on over 90 deals aggregating over $200 billion of value including:* Elon Musk’s $44Bn acquisition of Twitter * Livongo $18.8Bn merger with Teladoc, 45x NTM revenue * SendGrid $2.0Bn all stock sale to Twilio, 16x NTM revenue /$3.0Bn at close ($7Bn after 18 months). 2nd highest public company multiple in a tech sell-side. Twilio $3.2Bn all stock acquisition of Segment.* Infoblox sale to Warburg Pincus/Vista (new investment)>$3Bn valuation *$1.8Bn/64% premium sale of Marketo to Vista and $4.75Bn / 11x revenue sale of Marketo to Adobe * Vista’s $3.5Bn acquisition of Pluralsight * Kronos/Ultimate $22Bn merger; Kronos / Blackstone recap ($4.5Bn valuation,$750 million new equity)* Ancestry $4.7Bn sale to Blackstone. Permira\'s $1.6Bn acquisition of Ancestry.com * Omniture ($1.8Bn) and TubeMogul ($612MM/83% premium) sales to Adobe * Cvent ($1.6Bn/69% premium) sale to Vista * Ariba ($4.5Bn) and SuccessFactors ($3.7Bn) sales to SAP; SAP\'s acquisition of Fieldglass * Responsys ($1.6Bn), Eloqua ($1.0Bn), RightNow ($1.8Bn), ATG ($1.0Bn), Textura ($745Mm) and Stellent sales to Oracle; Oracle\'s acquisitions of Siebel ($5.9Bn), i-flex and Retek.* Autodesk $900Mm acquisition of Plangrid * ServiceMax ($1.0Bn/13x NTM revenue) sale to GE Digital * Sitecore sale to EQT (€1Bn)* Braintree ($800MM) and GSI ($2.4Bn) sales to eBay * aQuantive ($6.4Bn/91% premium) and Tellme sales to Microsoft * McAfee sale to Intel ($7.7Bn)* HP\'s acquisitions of 3Com ($3.2Bn) and Exstream Software * GT Nexus Sale to Infor ($675MM)
Experience
Head of Global Technology m & a
Jun 2021 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Education
Harvard University
AB
1997 — 1999
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