Gene Ziegler

Gene Ziegler is a managing director in the Technology advisory group in San Francisco, focused on the internet, travel tech and software sectors.

Select transaction experience includes the sale of Zola to The Knot Worldwide, Thoma Bravo’s acquisition of PROS Holdings, the carve-out and sale of Aven Hospitality (f/k/a Sabre Hospitality Solutions) from Sabre Corp. to TPG, Innovid’s sale to Mediaocean and its earlier public listing via merger with ION Acquisition Corp. 2, Criteo’s acquisition of Iponweb and activist shareholder matters, the sale of Roadie to UPS and the acquisition of World Freight Company by Baring Private Equity Asia and PAI Partners.

Mr. Ziegler was previously with Evercore’s transportation group in New York and began his investment banking career at J.P. Morgan.

Mr. Ziegler earned a B.A. in economics from St. Lawrence University, where he was a Presidential Diversity Scholar and Vilas Business Scholar, and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.