Team

Mike Ackrell – Managing Partner

Before founding Ackrell Capital, Mike was the Senior Managing Director in charge of ABN AMRO’s U.S. Technology Investment Banking Group in San Francisco. Prior to joining ABN, Mike ran Investment Banking at WR Hambrecht+Co, a San Francisco based merchant bank specializing in the technology sector. Mike previously worked for Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in New York, Menlo Park and San Francisco as a Senior Vice President in the Technology Investment Banking Group. Mike began his career with DLJ in 1988 and has significant experience in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and merchant banking. Mike holds a B.A. (summa cum laude) from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Bill Lamkin – Managing Partner

Before founding Ackrell Capital, Bill was a Senior Vice President in ABN AMRO's U.S. Technology Investment Banking Group in San Francisco. Bill directed ABN AMRO's investment banking efforts for the semiconductor and semiconductor equipment sectors. Prior to joining ABN, Bill held technology investment banking positions at major Wall Street investment banks, including Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, PaineWebber and Kidder Peabody. Prior to his career in technology investment banking, Bill practiced corporate law in San Francisco, California. Bill holds a J.D. from the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law, a M.B.A from the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and a B.A. from Westmont College. Bill is a member of the State Bar of California.

Ezra Roizen – Partner

Prior to Ackrell Capital, Ezra was the Vice President of Business & Product Development at Aircraft Technical Publishers, an aviation information services provider. Prior to ATP, Ezra was the Co-Founder & CEO of Montclare Technologies, Inc., an Internet consulting and development firm. Prior to Montclare, Ezra was the Co-Founder and Director of Business Development of Convoy Corporation (now part of Sybase). Ezra is the author of The Roizen Report, a column on technology for AlwaysOn and chairs the AlwaysOn 100, OnMedia 100 and OnHollywood 100 top private company selection committees. Ezra holds M.B.A. degrees from Columbia University’s Columbia Business School (beta gamma sigma honors) and the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business (Haas community service fellow) and a B.A. from the University of California, Davis. Ezra is the President-Elect of the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business Alumni Network.

Jonathan Heine – Partner

Prior to Ackrell Capital, Jonathan was a Managing Director and Head of Private Placements at ABN AMRO where he ran a PIPEs, debt and equity placements business. Jonathan was also founder and CEO of Greenridge Group, a management consulting company advising public and private companies. Prior to joining ABN, Jonathan ran East Coast Investment Banking at WR Hambrecht + Co. Previously Jonathan spent 11 years at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette’s Investment Banking Group, where he founded and ran its Middle Markets Mergers and Acquisitions Group, focused on exclusive sales of private and mid-sized public companies, and its Hedge Fund Investments Group, growing its fund of funds to over $500 million in the first year. Jonathan was also COO at SAC Capital Management, a major US hedge fund. Jonathan holds an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a Bachelors of Music from Manhattan School of Music, and a Masters in Psychology from the University of Santa Monica.

P. Holt Gardiner – Partner

Prior to Ackrell, Holt was Managing Director of Eclipse Entertainment Capital, LLC. Eclipse is a strategic advisory firm with a focus on the entertainment and digital media businesses. Additionally, Eclipse engages in the development, finance and production of feature entertainment and television. Prior to founding Eclipse, Gardiner worked with McCown De Leeuw & Co., a leveraged buyout firm based in Menlo Park, CA and New York, and at CS First Boston in the London-based International Mergers & Acquisitions Department. Holt has a broad range of financial and operating experience with a focus on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and leveraged buyouts in the entertainment, gaming, information technology, transportation, hospitality and forest and building products industries, and has served as a financial strategist to public and private companies in all of these industries. Holt has a Dual Bachelor of Arts degree in both History and Economics from Duke University (magna cum laude), where he was the President of the Economics Honor Society.