Stephen Day

Stephen Day Co-founded Navidar in 2009 in order to focus on middle market technology companies located in technology centers throughout the middle corridor of the U.S. Today, Navidar is one of the fastest growing technology M&A firms with a presence in cities such as Austin, Cleveland, Denver, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, and San Antonio.

Prior to Navidar, Stephen held leadership roles in the Global Technology Investment Banking groups at Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns, where he led the execution of U.S. and cross border M&A (buy-side, sell-side, shareholder defense, carve-outs, spin-offs) and financing transactions for many of the world’s largest and leading technology and business services companies.

During his 20+ year investment banking career, Stephen has executed over 120 M&A and financing transactions with deal volume totaling $23 billion. He has advised leading companies such as IBM, HP,EMC, Protolabs and SPS Commerce on their acquisitions. Stephen’s extensive global relationships have enabled him to sell his clients to companies located around the world including Alten, NTT Data, AeroScout, Nice, Ivalua, and Luxottica (Foster Grant). Stephen has extensive knowledge in SaaS software, e-commerce, digital marketing, tech-enabled services, healthcare IT, and advanced manufacturing.

Stephen earned his BS from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business with a concentration in Accounting and an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business with a concentration in Finance & International Business.