Dan Nash

Senior Managing Director,
Head of Investment Banking

Dan is a seasoned finance executive with over 20 years of investment banking and operating finance experience. Currently, Dan is the Head of Investment Banking at Cohen & Company Capital Markets, where he leads all aspects of Investment Banking including M&A advisory, private capital markets, SPAC advisory and PIPEs.  

Previously, Dan was the Global Head of Internet Investment Banking at Wells Fargo Securities, where he advised many leading technology companies on IPOs, acquisitions, SPAC mergers, private placements and debt financings. Dan helped grow the Technology investment banking business significantly at Wells Fargo and was the lead banker on a number of notable transactions including Carvana's IPO, Shift’s SPAC sale and PIPE, and Rubicon’s Private Placement.

Prior to Dan's recent role at Wells Fargo, Dan was the Chief Financial Officer at Machine Zone, a leading mobile gaming company known for its multi-billion dollar hits including Game of War, Mobile Strike, and Final Fantasy XV. Prior to MZ and Wells Fargo, he served as Director of Internet Investment Banking at BofA Merrill Lynch. In this role, Nash worked on a number of high-profile transactions, including the IPOs of LinkedIn, Zulily, The Active Network and Facebook. He also held multiple investment banking and finance positions at BofA Merrill Lynch, Riverstone Networks and Intel Corp.

Dan has an MBA from the Hass School of Business at UC Berkeley, an undergraduate degree in Economics from University of Pennsylvania, and a General Course degree with a focus on Mathematics from the London School of Economics. Dan was born and raised in Silicon Valley and lives in Woodside with his wife and four children.