Our Team

Preston Comey

  • Managing Director
  • Investment Banking
  • Strategic Advisory
  • Menlo Park

Preston Comey is a managing director in Evercore’s strategic advisory business in the Technology group. He focuses on infrastructure technology, including enterprise networks, mobile networks and frontier technologies, such as artificial intelligence and augmented and virtual reality.

Mr. Comey has over 15 years of technology investment banking and investing experience. At Evercore, his transactions include the successful defense of Qualcomm from a hostile offer by Broadcom and proxy fight; HTC’s business cooperation agreement with Google; Qualcomm on its acquisition of NXP Semiconductors; Qualcomm and SSW Partners’ acquisition of Veoneer; GlobalFoundries’ IPO; Cellwize’s sale to Qualcomm; Aerohive Networks’ sale to Extreme Networks; Uhana’s sale to VMware; and Brocade’s sale to Broadcom.

Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Comey was a vice president in the technology group of Barclays, advising clients on strategic and financing transactions, including Qualcomm, Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow, Getty Images, ATMI, OneWeb and Spansion.

He serves on the board of the San Francisco Public Golf Alliance.

Mr. Comey earned a B.A. in economics from Princeton University.