Jean Stack

Jean Stack is a senior managing director in Evercore’s strategic advisory practice, with a focus on aerospace & defense. She has experience advising on mergers and acquisitions, corporate carve-outs and divestitures, public and private capital raising and other strategic transactions. She has deep expertise in national security, including defense technology, defense electronics, space, intelligence and government technology and services. She advises CEOs and boards of public, private equity-backed and founder- or management-owned companies.

Select transactions include advising on Blackstone’s investment in Falcata (formerly TSC); the sale of SciTec to Firefly; the sale of DZYNE Technologies to Ondas; the sale of Epiq Solutions (a Veritas portfolio company) to TTM Technologies; the sale of North Point Defense to General Atomics; and the sale of Resonant Sciences (a Cerberus portfolio company) to Joby Aviation. Ms. Stack’s equity capital markets experience includes follow-on offerings for Kratos and nLIGHT and IPOs for Applied Aerospace, AEVEX Aerospace, Hawkeye360 and Arxis.

Prior to joining Evercore, Ms. Stack was a managing director and co-head of Baird’s defense, space and government group. Previously, she was a managing director and founding member of Houlihan Lokey’s aerospace, defense and government group.

Ms. Stack earned a B.A. in economics from Duke University.