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Brian Roberts is a Senior Managing Director of the firm's corporate advisory business.
Mr. Roberts joined Evercore Partners in January 2006 to build the firm's San Francisco-based corporate advisory business. Since joining Evercore, Roberts has advised IronPort on its pending $830 million sale to Cisco, Blackbaud on its acquisitions of Target Software and Target Analysis Group, Winternals and Sysinternals on their sale to Microsoft and Orbital Data on its sale to Citrix.
Prior to Evercore, Roberts spent five years at Microsoft where most recently, as a Corporate Vice President, he led Microsoft’s Corporate Development organization which handles all domestic and international acquisitions and investments for the company. One of Mr. Roberts’ last transactions was the acquisition of Groove Networks which led to the hiring of Ray Ozzie who replaced Bill Gates as Chief Software Architect. In addition, Roberts was heavily involved in several significant transactions which did not close including the publicly disclosed $60 billion merger discussions with SAP. Roberts joined Microsoft after leaving Inktomi Corporation, where he was Vice President of Business Development and helped execute nearly $2 billion of transactions. Before working at Inktomi, Roberts spent a number of years on Wall Street providing M&A advisory services. Most recently he was a Vice President at Lazard Frères & Co. LLC and supported the firm’s technology and telecommunications effort.
Roberts earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard University. He previously earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics with highest distinction from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was awarded the Departmental Citation. | 