Our Team

Founding Partner, cEO

Stephen Quaderer

Stephen brings over 18 years of strategic, financial, and operational experience in the technology and financial services industries, helping companies define and execute their strategic priorities. With over $8.5 billion in personal league table transactions, Stephen’s experience as an operator and advisor spans his time at Goldman Sachs, AppNexus, Stride Consulting, as a multiple-time tech founder, and as the founder of Catapult Associates. His diverse background provides a rich set of insights to help your business achieve its goals.

Catapult Associates — highlights:

• Advised Verana Health on its acquisition of PYA Analytics and $100 milllion financing round led by Google Ventures, with new investors Bain Capital Ventures, Casdin Capital and Define ventures

• Acted as Program Manager for Verana Health’s data ingestion, integration and augmentation processes associated with PYA Analytics

• Sole financial advisor to Stride Consulting LLC on its $6 million preferred unit sale to Alaris Royalty Corp.

• Interim CFO for Stride Consulting from May 2019 through February 2020

  
  AppNexus, Inc.— highlights:

• Member of select executive team that prepared AppNexus for an M&A outcome as part of “dual-track” IPO process, culminating in a successful exit to AT&T for $1.6 billion

• Member of internal team entrusted with preparing AppNexus for IPO (“Project Catapult”), playing key role in drafting S-1, clearing comments with SEC and enabling full IPO optionality

• Global Head of Corporate Development

• CFO for AppNexus’ largest business unit, with responsibility for >$100 million GAAP revenue

• Founded and managed the Financial Insights Group; responsible for forecasting AppNexus’ revenue, modelling its multi-sided marketplace, supporting strategic planning processes, dashboarding and reporting, and delivering FP&A insights to Product, Commercial and Services organizations  

• Oversaw valuation and financial diligence relating to Alenty, OAS, RMLA and YieldEx acquisitions

Goldman Sachs’ Firmwide Strategy Group — highlights:

• Executed $3 billion co-investment in the firm’s flagship quantitative fund Global Equity Opportunities, including $2.3 billion of the firm’s own capital, during financial crisis

• Executed spinoff of the firm’s proprietary long / short investment arm, Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies into the Goldman Sachs Investment Partners fund complex

• Executed acquisition of Macquarie-IMM, a South Korean asset manager with >$10 billion in assets under management

• Executed acquisition of RBSAM Global Treasury Funds, a European asset manager

• Evaluated acquisition of a UK-based wrap technology platform with over £10B in assets under administration

• Analyzed financial, operational and oversight implications of converting to a Bank Holding Company regulatory framework for Goldman Sachs’ Board of Directors; ultimately executed upon during financial crisis