ELGIN THOMPSON

Elgin Thompson is a Managing Director and Head of Internet, Media and Entertainment Investment Banking at Citizens. He advises boards of directors, senior management teams and private equity firms on matters of strategic significance, including mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism defense and capital markets transactions. Over a career of more than 25 years, Mr. Thompson has executed more than 150 transactions. 

Mr. Thompson began his career as a mergers and acquisitions attorney at Wildman, Harold, Allen & Dixon and DLA  Piper. He later joined the Investment Banking Departments of SG Cowen, Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns, where he  focused on mergers and acquisitions in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors. He also served as 

Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at GridNetworks, a video infrastructure company backed by Comcast, Cisco and Panorama Capital. This combination of legal, corporate and advisory experience informs his counsel to clients. Mr. Thompson has been quoted on M&A and media industry trends in The Wall Street Journal, CNBC.com and AdWeek. 

He holds a B.A. from Northern Illinois University, a J.D. from Temple University School of Law and an M.B.A. from the  Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. An avid runner, he lives in New York City with his wife and  three daughters.