Pacific Crest Securities Expands Communications & Infrastructure Banking Team

PORTLAND, Ore. and NEW YORK, Sept. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Crest Securities, the premier investment bank for technology, announces the recent addition of Aaron Hill as Managing Director, Investment Banking. He joins the firm's Communications & Infrastructure investment banking team and will be based in Pacific Crest's New York City office.

Mr. Hill has devoted more than 20 of his 25 years as an investment banker advising executive teams and boards of directors of public and private companies in the communications and media segments of technology. He joins Pacific Crest from Stifel and its predecessor Thomas Weisel Partners, where he most recently served as a Managing Director in the media & communications investment banking practice.  Prior to joining Stifel, he was the head of telecom banking at Cowen and Company. Mr. Hill's career prior to Cowen included positions at UBS Investment Bank (formerly Dillon Read & Co.), Wasserstein Perella & Co. and The First Boston Corporation.

Mr. Hill is experienced in all facets of private and public financings, mergers & acquisitions and restructuring assignments for hosted communications, data center, managed services, fiber, cable and traditional telecom companies. He has completed more than 70 investment banking transactions since passage of the 1996 Telecom Act.  He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and Dartmouth College.

"Aaron is an accomplished banker with an impressive history of transactions and experience in the evolving communications segment of technology," said Scott Sandbo, Chairman and CEO of Pacific Crest.  "We're pleased to have Aaron join Andrew Rippy as a senior member of a communications & infrastructure team which has completed several notable transactions so far this year, including advising Ubiquisys in its $310 million acquisition by Cisco and serving as a managing underwriter on two follow-on offerings totaling more than $550 million for Fleetmatics."

About Pacific Crest Securities

Pacific Crest is the premier investment bank for technology, operating at the leading edge, where global connectivity is fueling an unprecedented expansion cycle. We apply our unmatched knowledge of the drivers of value creation and our global network of relationships to technology's high growth sectors, such as global Internet, mobility, SaaS, cloud and big data, next gen infrastructure and alternative energy. Our clients - technology's foremost institutional investors and market leading companies – rely on us to achieve superior returns and gain competitive advantage from the seismic shifts occurring in technology.  We have 175 employees and are headquartered in the United States, with offices in Boston, New York, Portland, San Francisco and Stamford, and International offices in Beijing and Taipei, as well as our Pacific Epoch office in Shanghai.

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Jen McBee
Pacific Crest Securities
503.248.0721

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