Mr. Sood is a Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Technology•Media•Telecom Group. He has more than a decade of experience working with technology clients of all sizes and across subsectors, including SaaS, enterprise, and vertical-market software; infrastructure and security software; cross-platform mobility platforms; ad-tech; cross-channel interactive digital marketing; big data/predictive analytics; and the electronics supply chain (components, semiconductors, EMS), among other verticals. Mr. Sood is based in the firm’s San Francisco office.
Prior
to joining Houlihan Lokey,
Mr. Sood was a Senior
Vice
President
focused on technology coverage at Pacific Crest Securities (now KeyBanc)
and, previously, was at Deutsche
Bank Securities and Jefferies & Co. (Broadview International). While at
these firms, he provided strategic M&A and private placement advisory
services as well as executed equity and debt capital raises, executing more
than 60 transactions
resulting in over $12 billion in transaction value.
Mr.
Sood holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Irvine, and
an MBA from Columbia Business School.