John Lambros

Mr. Lambros is Co-Head of Houlihan Lokey’s U.S. Technology Group and Head of Digital Media and Entertainment. He has been an active advisor to or operator in the digital media and emerging technology markets for over 20 years and has led more than 250 public and private market financings, mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, joint ventures, and senior and subordinated debt financings. He is based in the firm’s New York office.

Previously, Mr. Lambros was President of GCA Advisors, where he was also Head of Digital Media Banking, a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee, and Head of the New York office prior to the firm’s acquisition by Houlihan Lokey in 2021.

Prior to GCA, Mr. Lambros was Senior Vice President of Business Development at IntoNetworks, a broadband technology company incubated at the MIT Media Lab and funded by venture capital. While there, he was instrumental in raising $40 million of growth equity from strategic investors, negotiated more than 50 different content and distribution licensing deals, and ultimately negotiated the sale of the company in 2003. Mr. Lambros began his banking career in Morgan Stanley’s Global Communications Group, where he advised emerging TMT clients and helped raise over $5 billion in senior and high-yield debt and public and private equity for emerging communications and media companies.

Over the past 20 years, Mr. Lambros has been an angel investor in several technology and consumer brand startups. He has been an active advisor to innovative digital companies, including green tech incubator Greenstart; CNC machining platform MakeTime; and email and data marketing technology business LiveIntent. He has also been an active advisor to several nonprofit organizations, including the Digital Media Task Force for WNYC, New York Public Radio; human rights watch organization The Sentry; the Checkerboard Film Foundation; and is a member of the board of trustees of Salisbury School in Salisbury, Connecticut.

Mr. Lambros holds a B.S. from Harvard College and an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.