Thom Weisel

Mr. Weisel is considered to be a pioneer and one of the leading financiers in the development of the high tech industry in Silicon Valley. He currently serves as Co-Chairman of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a publicly traded financial services company that provides retail and institutional wealth management and investment banking services with a market capitalization of approximately $5 billion. Mr. Weisel joined Stifel following its acquisition of Thomas Weisel Partners (NASD: TWPG) in 2010, a firm which he founded in 1999 and took public in 2006. Under Mr. Weisel’s leadership, Thomas Weisel Partners emerged as one of the fastest growing financial services companies in history and a leading boutique investment bank focused on serving growth companies in the technology industry.

Prior to founding Thomas Weisel Partners, Mr. Weisel founded Montgomery Securities, a private partnership and one of the leading underwriters of initial public offerings for many of the most successful companies emerging in Silicon Valley in the 1980s and 90s, including companies such as Amgen, Micron Technologies and Yahoo!. Mr. Weisel led the sale of Montgomery Securities to Nationsbank Corporation (now a part of Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) in 1998 for $1.2 billion.

Active in the community and in various roles outside of financial services, Mr. Weisel has served on the boards of many non-profit and for-profit institutions, including the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation Board, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Stanford Endowment Management Board, and the Harvard Business School Advisory Board. Mr. Weisel received a B.A. degree in Economics with distinction and honors from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.