Needham & Company, LLC Hires Robin Graham to Lead Its Internet & Digital Media Investment Banking Group

Needham Continues to Focus on Growth

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Needham & Company, LLC, a privately held, full-service investment bank, announced today that Robin Graham has rejoined the firm as a Managing Director to lead its Internet & Digital Media Investment Banking Group. He will be based in the Menlo Park, California, office of Needham & Company, LLC.

“We are pleased to welcome Robin back to Needham”

“We are pleased to welcome Robin back to Needham,” said John Prior, President and CEO of Needham & Company, LLC. “His hiring comes at an important time in the evolution of the Internet and digital media industry, and continues to show our commitment to the consumer sector and to growing our investment banking business. Adding a proven, seasoned professional of Robin’s caliber will further strengthen our overall consumer franchise and Needham’s West Coast banking team.”

Prior to joining Needham, Mr. Graham was a managing director and co-head of Internet Banking and Mergers & Acquisitions at ThinkEquity LLC, where he advised a diverse client base, including Internet and digital media clients. His experience spans a wide variety of public equity and private placement financings as well as advisory assignments for high growth companies in Internet and digital media, technology and clean tech. He began his investment banking career at Needham & Company, LLC, where over 13 years he became managing director and a senior member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice. Mr. Graham earned an A.B. from Harvard College.

About Needham & Company, LLC

Needham & Company, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Needham Group, Inc., is a privately held, full-service investment bank with the mission of helping emerging growth companies achieve their potential. The firm is headquartered in New York City with offices in Boston, Menlo Park and San Francisco. In addition to investment banking, Needham’s principal activities include institutional sales and trading, and asset management. To serve its institutional clients, Needham & Company, LLC produces comprehensive equity research on more than 350 companies in clean technology and industrial growth, communications and enterprise infrastructure, consumer, healthcare, semiconductors and semiconductor equipment, and software. Needham & Company, LLC is a member of FINRA/SIPC. For more information, please see www.needhamco.com.