Technology Biographies
Chris McCabe
Managing Director
Co-Head of Investment Banking and Head of Technology, Media and Telecommunications Investment Banking
Chris McCabe is Co-Head of Investment Banking and Head of Technology, Media and Telecommunications Investment Banking. Mr. McCabe joined the firm in 2011 from Piper Jaffray where he was a Managing Director and Global Co-Head of both the Clean Technology and Renewables and Industrials Groups. Mr. McCabe led the Clean Tech practice from 2008 until he left the company, organizing and branding the group and helping to turn the practice into the top equity underwriter in the sector over the past three years. Mr. McCabe's responsibilities included coverage of Solar, Energy Efficiency, Industrial Biotech, Industrial Technology and Industrial Growth. He joined Piper Jaffray in 2002 as Head of Semiconductor Banking and was Head of Technology from 2005 to 2008.
Before that, Mr. McCabe was Head of Semiconductor Banking at Robertson Stephens, where he had a broad range of deal experience in IPOs, follow-ons, convertible debt and M&A transactions. Previously, Mr. McCabe was Head of West Coast Technology Banking at Bank of Boston.
He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and holds a MBA in International Management from the University of South Carolina.
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Joshua M. Epstein
Managing Director
josh.epstein@cowen.com
Mr. Epstein serves as Head of Cowen's Digital Media and Emerging Technology practice and Co-Head of Alternative Energy Banking. His coverage extends across a broad range of clean technology sectors with a focus on IP intensive and consumer/utility facing technologies. Mr. Epstein joined Cowen and Company in July 1996 and has the longest continuous tenure in Cowen's Investment Banking Group. Over the course of his career, Mr. Epstein has provided financing and strategic advisory services to a wide range of technology companies with a primary focus in the Electronics sector and additional transaction expertise in the Software, Internet, IT Services and Telecommunications areas.
Mr. Epstein received a B.A. in Economics and Literature from Yeshiva University.
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Peter A. Petitt
Managing Director
peter.petitt@cowen.com
Mr. Petitt serves as Head of Semiconductor banking and Co-Head of Alternative Energy Banking. His coverage extends across the semiconductor and solar sectors, as well as related and emerging clean technologies. Prior to joining Cowen in 2004, Mr. Petitt was a Vice President with SoundView Technology Group, where he covered companies in the semiconductor manufacturing industry. From 1999 through 2002, Mr. Petitt worked in Robertson Stephens' Technology Investment Banking Group in San Francisco and in London, where he most recently covered semiconductor companies throughout Europe. He also worked in the M&A practice of Chase Securities Inc in New York from 1994 to 1997.
Mr. Petitt received his B.A. from Colorado College and his M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
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Peter J. Siwinski
Managing Director
peter.siwinski@cowen.com
Mr. Siwinski is a Managing Director and heads Cowen and Company's Communications and Computing Systems investment banking effort. Prior to joining Cowen, Mr. Siwinski was at Thomas Weisel Partners, where he helped found the firm's Storage and Computing Systems practice. Prior to TWP, Mr. Siwinski was in the Telecommunications Investment Banking Group at Merrill Lynch in New York.
Mr. Siwinski received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D./M.B.A. with Honors from Duke University.
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Jose A. Cobos
Managing Director
jose.cobos@cowen.com
Mr. Cobos is a Managing Director and heads Cowen and Company's Internet banking practice where he provides strategic advisory and financing services to leading private and public companies. Prior to joining Cowen, Mr. Cobos worked in Piper Jaffray's Technology Investment Banking Group in San Francisco where he most recently led the firm's Internet team. Prior to Piper Jaffray, he worked at General Mills from 2003 through 2004 and was a Navy SEAL from 1995 through 2001.
Mr. Cobos received his B.S. in Economics with Merit from the United States Naval Academy and his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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C. Blake Williams
Managing Director
blake.williams@cowen.com
Mr. Williams serves as Head of Cowen's Semiconductor and Capital Equipment investment banking practice where he is responsible for coverage of all component-level technologies, including semiconductors, electronics, optical, wireless, and MEMS, as well as capital equipment and related companies serving these industries. He has over 18 years of transaction experience across a full range of financial and strategic investment banking products for public and private companies, including acting as a primary advisor for buy-side and sell-side M&A, strategic defense, convertible debt restructuring/exchanges and as a book runner on a full range of equity and equity-linked offering transactions.
Prior to joining Cowen, Mr. Williams was a Managing Director at Piper Jaffray & Co. where he most recently headed the firm's semiconductor, communications and capital equipment coverage. Before Piper, Mr. Williams worked in Robertson Stephens' Technology Group where he was principally responsible for analog/mixed-signal and wireless semiconductor coverage. Before joining Robertson, he practiced as a corporate and securities attorney at Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles and he has also worked at CS First Boston Corporation in New York earlier in his career.
Mr. Williams received his A.B. from Harvard University and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.
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David C. Istock
Director
david.istock@cowen.com
Mr. Istock is a Director focused on Technology Mergers & Acquisitions based in San Francisco. Mr. Istock has fifteen years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and the technology industry. Prior to joining Cowen and Company, he was an Executive Director at UBS Investment Bank focused on Technology M&A working in San Francisco and New York. Prior to UBS, Mr. Istock co-founded Bluefish Ventures, an early-stage technology-focused venture capital fund. Prior to Bluefish, he was a Vice President in PaineWebber's M&A Group based in New York.
Mr. Istock received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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