Ms.
Silcock is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Houlihan Lokey’s Southwest Investment Banking practice. She has more than 25 years of experience advising companies on M&A,
equity and debt capital market transactions, private debt and equity
placements, and high-yield offerings for growth-oriented companies across all
industries. Ms. Silcock joined Houlihan Lokey in March 2009 to expand its client
coverage through her broad and deep relationships with CEOs and business
leaders in these regions. She is based in the firm’s Dallas office.
Before
joining the firm, Ms. Silcock was Founder, Managing Director, and Head of
Southwest Investment Banking for Citigroup Global Markets Inc. from 2000 to
early 2009. From 1997 to 2000, she was a Managing Director with Donaldson,
Lufkin & Jenrette’s Investment Banking Practice in Dallas, where she
executed the full range of transactions for clients in the industrial,
consumer, business services, technology, media, and telecom sectors. From 1989
to 1997, she was a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns in Dallas, where
she focused on growth-oriented companies in the Southwest and Southeast.
Ms.
Silcock graduated cum laude with a B.A. from Princeton University and
earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She remains active
with both Princeton and Stanford (Co-Chairman of Stanford’s 25th Reunion
Fundraising Campaign), and is on the Board of the United States Ski and
Snowboard Association, which supports Olympic athletes. She was formerly on the
Boards of Mesa Airlines, a publicly traded airline, and Greenhunter
Energy, a publicly traded water reclamation company. She is a member of Women
Corporate Directors (WCD), an organization of women who serve on public company
boards.