The Gridley & Company Difference

  • Industry Focus

    Our specialization in the Information Services industry gives our clients a competitive edge. We develop and nurture relationships with an extensive group of industry leaders, emerging growth companies and private equity firms within this market segment. This broad network and our targeted industry focus allows us to:

    • Discern important trends early in their development
    • Advise clients on the best strategy to profit from those trends
    • Execute highly successful transactions
  • Strategic Insight

    Our strategic insight and judgment is honed through extensive research. This includes:

    • Conduct research to identify market opportunities
    • Host leading industry networking events
    • Attend and participate in industry conferences
    • Meet with over 300 companies a year
    • Develop comprehensive industry overviews
    • Research, write and distribute our quarterly newsletter
    • Consult with senior industry relationships
    • Draw upon our extensive 25 years of transaction experience

    We share our insights through our quarterly newsletter The Compass.

  • Extensive Experience

    Our team members are seasoned bankers who were trained at major Wall Street firms including Lehman Brothers, Citigroup, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, and ING Barings and are passionate about our targeted industry sectors. This means that our clients get bankers with tremendous transaction experience in a focused, intimate relationship. It also means that attention to quality is inherent in everything we do.

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David Diamond

Mr. Diamond currently serves as President of David Diamond Associates, a marketing and strategic consultancy. His clients include leading product manufacturers, retailers and marketing services suppliers whom he helps deal with each other and, more importantly, deal with consumers, and evolving consumer needs and wants.

Mr. Diamond’s background includes extensive experience in Consumer Goods at Procter and Gamble and Oral Research Laboratories, and in marketing services in senior roles at ActMedia, Lamaze Publishing and Catalina Marketing. Companies he has directly managed have a significant track record of growth and a history of successful liquidity events.

He consults a variety of businesses, from start-ups to global giants, writes widely and teaches at the graduate level.