Mark Simonian

Mark Simonian currently serves as a Global Merchant Banking Partner at The Consello Group, an Advisory Director to Sentilink, a Senior Executive Advisor to GI Partners Acquisitions and a partner in Clara Vista Investment Partners.

Mark Simonian spent 35 years as an investment banker focused on the Telecom, Media and Technology space retiring as Chairman of Global TMT Investment Banking at Credit Suisse in August 2021. From 2010 to 2018, Mark served as Global Co-Head of the TMT Group at Credit Suisse where he had management responsibility for approximately 150 professionals worldwide generating on average over $1 billion in revenue for the firm annually. Mark’s client work extended across the TMT space and geographies and included transactions in the media, entertainment, wireless, data center and technology sectors amongst others.

From 1997 to 2010, Mark worked at Salomon Brothers and its successor Citigroup in San Francisco, London and New York where he became Vice Chairman and Global Co-Head of TMT Investment Banking. From 1994 to 1997, Mark was one of four principals in the management group that partnered with Goldman Sachs Capital Partners to acquire, build and operate Diamond Cable Communications, at the time the UK’s fifth largest cable television company. Prior to Diamond, Mark worked in the Communications Group at First Boston both in San Francisco and New York. During this period, he was active in raising capital for a number of the largest and fastest growing companies in the cable television sector.

Mark holds an AB from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.