Gerald Hwasta
Gerald Hwasta is an Operating Member of Shah Capital Partners. He formerly held management roles in sales & marketing for Sun Microsystems and Cobalt Networks where he led a team that created products based on partner technologies. As the head of Corporate Development of Cobalt Networks, Mr. Hwasta was instrumental in the sale of the company to Sun Microsystems for $2 billion. Formerly, he was an investment banker at Robertson Stephens in San Francisco, focusing on semiconductor and other technology hardware companies. Mr. Hwasta holds a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.
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Technology buyouts come of age
[Editor's note: We asked Gerald Hwasta to make sense of all the buyout activity going on]
We’re seeing a lot of action suddenly in the area of technology buyouts, and it’s impacting Silicon Valley.
These transactions are driven by private equity firms searching for businesses with reliable cash flows. The firms, including mine, want to acquire these businesses, often with borrowed money (debt), and then try to increase the cash flows even more, in order to sell… Continue Reading