As Senior Associate, Brendan sources and performs diligence on Edison’s investments while also providing support to Edison’s existing portfolio companies.Brendan joined Edison Partners in April 2022 and focuses on investments in Fintech, Healthcare IT, and Enterprise Solutions.
Prior to joining Edison Partners, Brendan was an associate with Escalate Capital Partners, an Austin-based private credit and growth equity fund targeting rapidly growing later-stage companies within the technology, software, services, and healthcare sectors. Prior to Escalate, Brendan was an investment banking associate at PJ Solomon. Before business school, he was an assistant vice president in debt capital markets at Deutsche Bank and an associate director at Fitch Ratings. Brendan is a CFA charterholder.
MBA, McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin
Debt financing. Before Edison, I spent over a decade working in credit, which makes me our firm's de facto debt financing guy.
EARLY CAREER
A cold email to someone at a credit rating agency in 2010 resulted in my first job post-college and set me off on a 10+ year career in debt before pivoting to growth equity.
Proudest Moment
The birth of my son in January 2023.
Favorite Music
Anything reggae.
Fun Fact
As a production assistant on Top Chef (Las Vegas), I had the pleasure of getting chewed out by Michael Voltaggio (don't ever put nice knives in the dishwasher) and Padma (for dropping her sandwich).
