Artifact Details

Title

C. E. Unterberg, Towbin story

Catalog Number

102792231

Type

Document

Description

Tom Unterberg is the general partner at Tamar Technology Ventures. He was the co-founder, chairman and senior managing partner of C.E. Unterberg, Towbin. With over forty years of investment banking experience, Tom has acquired a wealth of experience through hundreds of public and private financings through several bull and bear markets. He has led IPOs of Intel, Compaq, and Applied Materials, invested in Compaq and AES and has a legacy of underwriting Israeli high-tech companies beginning with the IPO of Scitex.

Tom served as a managing director of Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. from January 1987 to January 1989. And prior to that, he served as the chairman, CEO, and senior managing director of L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin. With Robert Towbin, the firm was known for its merchant banking investments, particularly in high-technology companies. Tom was associated with this firm or its predecessors from 1956.

Tom holds a B.S. degree from Princeton University and an M.B.A. degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Date

2010-08-03; 2010-10-26; 2011-11-22

Contributor

Kolker, Carole, Interviewer
Lavitt, Mel, Interviewee
Towbin, Robert, Interviewee
Unterberg, Thomas I., Interviewee

Publisher

National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)

Extent

157 p.

Format

PDF

Category

Transcription

Collection Title

NVCA-Venture Forward Oral History Collection

Credit

Gift of National Venture Capital Association

Lot Number

X8628.2018