David Chanley

Mr. Chanley is a senior investment professional with more than 20 years of experience advising management teams and Boards of technology companies on market positioning, mergers and acquisitions and corporate strategies to create shareholder value. He leverages his industry knowledge, expertise and network of relationships to identify and invest in leading technology companies in attractive niche markets. Over the course of his career, Mr. Chanley has demonstrated success helping companies effectively communicate their competitive strengths and investment highlights to the institutional investment community. At White Hat, Mr. Chanley has led the Firm’s investments in Amber Road (now e2Open), MobileIron (now Ivanti) and Spok Holdings.

Prior to co-founding White Hat Capital Partners LP in 2016, Mr. Chanley was Managing Director and Co-Head of Stifel’s Global Technology Investment Banking Group where he, along with his partner Mark Quinlan, oversaw coverage of all of the firm’s technology sub-sectors including Communications, Electronics & Applied Technologies, Internet & Digital Media, Software & SaaS, Tech-Enabled Services and Telecom. In addition, he served as a Member of the Investment Banking Management Committee as well as the Fairness Committee. Mr. Chanley joined Stifel in connection with its merger with Thomas Weisel Partners in 2010. He joined Thomas Weisel Partners just after its founding in 1999 and became a Partner in 2007. Earlier in his career, Mr. Chanley was as investment banking Associate at Montgomery Securities and a Research Associate at Greenwich Associates.

During his investment banking career, Mr. Chanley developed extensive, deep relationships with corporate executives, board members, senior leaders of major private equity firms, hedge funds, law firms and investment banks. He provided strategic advice to management teams and Boards on a wide range of corporate transactions for leading public Technology companies, including Aeroflex (now Cobham; debt and equity financings, two private company acquisitions, two divestitures and strategic sale); Agilent Technologies (IPO spin-off of Verigy, spin-off of Keysight Technologies, three divestitures); Ixia (now Keysight Technologies; convertible debt financing, public acquisition and three private company acquisitions); Newport (now MKS Instruments; debt and equity financings and acquisitions) and Viasystems (now TTM Technologies; debt and equity financings, two public acquisitions and strategic sale).

Mr. Chanley also advised numerous public and private technology companies on strategic sales to industry leaders, including Agilent Technologies (now Keysight Technologies), AVX (now Kyocera), Danaher, Jabil Circuit, JDSU (now Viavi and Lumentum), Keysight Technologies, National Instruments, Novanta, Samsung, Teledyne, TTM Technologies and Zebra Technologies, among others.

Mr. Chanley received his A.B. in Business Economics and Organizational Behavior & Management from Brown University in 1996 and has held various alumni leadership and board positions for Brown over the past 25 years. Mr. Chanley resides in Ridgewood, New Jersey with his wife and three children. After volunteering as a coach and serving as a member of leadership committees in youth sports for many years, he spends most of his free time watching high school baseball, basketball, football and lacrosse games from the sidelines these days.