Bio

David Knowlton successfully launched Watch Hill Partners LLC in 2003 and sold the firm to FBR Capital Markets in 2009. Watch Hill Partners advised on over $30 billion in assignments and made several highly successful merchant banking investments. Mr. Knowlton recruited and assembled a team of well known, experienced professionals from some of the most prestigious investment banking firms. Additionally a number of highly respected CEOs were investors in the firm. From December 1996 to March 1999, Mr. Knowlton established and ran Gleacher & Company's financial sponsor efforts, as Managing Director of North American Investment Banking and Head of Acquisition Finance for NatWest Markets, the U.S. M&A and merchant banking arm of NatWest. Mr. Knowlton's relationships among financial sponsors and their portfolio companies are both broad and deep.