Linda Bornhuetter Gridley, President and CEO

Ms. Gridley is the President and CEO of Gridley & Company LLC. She has over twenty years of investment banking experience at several major Wall Street firms, with fifteen years of transactional experience focused in the Company's targeted industry sectors. Ms. Gridley founded Gridley & Company LLC in August 2001. Since then, she has successfully established a leading firm providing investment banking services to large and small companies in the information services industries.

Prior to founding Gridley & Company LLC, Ms. Gridley was a Managing Director in the U.S. Media Client Services Group at ABN Amro. Ms. Gridley joined ABN Amro in May, 2001 when the firm acquired the U.S. Investment Banking business of ING Barings, where she was a Managing Director and head of the firm's Information and Internet Services Group. At ING Barings, Ms. Gridley was responsible for the origination and execution of all of the firm's U.S. investment banking business in the Information and Internet Services sector. She was also a member of the firm's Fairness Opinion Committee. Ms. Gridley joined ING Barings in October, 1997 when the firm acquired Furman Selz LLC where she was a Managing Director covering Information and Internet Services companies. Prior to joining Furman Selz in February, 1996, Ms. Gridley spent ten years in the M&A Department and the Technology Group at Lehman Brothers. Her 20+ year career in investment banking includes financial advisory work on behalf of technology industry leaders and emerging growth and middle market companies in all product areas (M&A, Public and Private Equity, and Public and Private Debt).

Throughout Ms. Gridley’s investment banking career she has built strong relationships with some of the industry’s most influential leaders as well as with smaller, emerging growth companies and relevant financial sponsors. These relationships have become reliable channels in which to gain very valuable market insights and a holistic view of the industries in which we focus ­ including developing trends. She has also developed a strong financial acumen which, combined with her knowledge of corporate structures and experience with emerging businesses, adds tremendous value to the firm’s clients.

Ms. Gridley received her MBA degree from the Amos Tuck School and her A.B. degree from Dartmouth College.

linda.gridley@gridleyco.com

Stan M. Sandberg, Principal

Mr. Sandberg is a Principal at Gridley & Company LLC.  He has ten years of investment banking experience at several major Wall Street firms, focusing on media and information services, as well as experience leading transactions in the corporate world.  Prior to joining Gridley, Mr. Sandberg was a Vice President of Strategic Development for Cendant Corporation, a $19.0 billion public company.  At Cendant, Mr. Sandberg and his team managed M&A activities in Cendant’s travel division, executing $2.5 billion of travel and travel technology acquisitions, including Orbitz and ebookers plc.  Prior to joining Cendant in August 2004, he served as Vice President of Finance for Communications Corporation of America, a private television company, overseeing a leveraged recapitalization and M&A activities.  Prior to his corporate transaction experience, he was an associate in CIBC World Market’s Media Investment Banking Group from March 2001 to October 2002, completing numerous transactions in the broadcasting and new media sectors.  Prior to CIBC World Markets, Mr. Sandberg spent two years working with Ms. Gridley as an associate in ING Baring’s Information and Internet Services Group, focused on M&A and public and private financings.  He began his investment banking career at Ladenburg Thalmann, a New York based investment bank focused on emerging growth and middle market companies. 

Mr. Sandberg earned his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and completed his Master’s Studies in Asian Studies at the University of Michigan.  Mr. Sandberg lives in New York City with his wife and two children and is an avid tennis player.

stan.sandberg@gridleyco.com