Joel Strauch is a Partner at Updata Advisors who joined the firm in 2005.   He leads the firm's Infrastructure Software practice.  Mr. Strauch has significant experience both in investment banking and in advising high growth technology companies, and has completed more than 50 transactions with aggregate value in excess of $3.5 billion.  Mr. Strauch has completed transactions on behalf of portfolio companies of leading financial investors, and with a number of both large and mid-sized technology companies.

Previously, Mr. Strauch was a Senior Vice President at Katalyst, a private investment and advisory firm for technology and life sciences companies.  He held senior investment banking roles at technology-focused investment banking firms including First Albany Corporation, H.C. Wainwright & Co., and Alex. Brown & Sons, where he completed a wide range of M&A, equity and debt transactions for leading vendors across enterprise technology and other sectors. Earlier in his career, Mr. Strauch served as Manager, Financial Analysis, Mergers & Acquisitions for Edison Mission Energy, a subsidiary of Southern California Edison and a leading developer of independent power generation facilities.

Mr. Strauch received a B.B.A. in finance, summa cum laude, from Loyola College in Maryland.

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