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Darren Bounds

CFO at Team Cymru

Darren Bounds is the current CFO at Team Cymru. Prior to their current position, Darren served as Director of Technology & Services Investment Banking at Baird from January 2018 to December 2020. In this role, they led 17 M&A transactions totaling over $2 Billion in value. From January 2016 to December 2017, Darren was Vice President of Government & Defense Investment Banking at Houlihan Lokey. As a senior member of the leading M&A advisory team for the Government and Defense sector, they advised Technology and Services businesses supporting the Intel, Defense, and Civilian government markets. Darren began their career as a Navy SEAL from January 2002 to December 2008. After their time in the Navy, they worked as a Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions at Credit Suisse from January 2010 to December 2016. In this role, they led the execution of over $15 Billion of public and private M&A advisory engagements across a variety of industries and deal types/structures including buy-sides and sell-sides, spin-offs, leveraged buyouts, corporate carve-outs, merger-of-equals, cross-border, Reverse Morris Trust, shareholder advisory/defense, and hostile acquisitions.

Darren Bounds holds an MBA in finance from Columbia Business School and a B.S. in oceanography from the United States Naval Academy.

Darren Bounds reports to Rabbi Rob Thomas, Chairman, CEO, and Cymru Fellow.

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