Paul D'Addario
Founder at Palisades Growth Capital
Profile
Paul D’Addario
Partner & Co-Founder
Mr. D’Addario has twenty-seven years of experience in telecom, media and technology financing, investing and investment banking.
Mr. D’Addario is primarily responsible for investor relations, investment monitoring, and managing and advising on exit strategy.
Prior to co-founding Palisades he was Managing Director and head of West Coast Media from Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (“DLJ”) from 1994 until DLJ’s 2000 merger with Credit Suisse.
He was Managing Director at Credit Suisse from 2000 until 2004.
Mr. D’Addario executed numerous equity and debt financings, M&A transactions, Initial Public Offerings in the media, telecom and technology Sectors.
From 1987 until 1994, Mr. D’Addario served as an Associate, Vice President and Senior Vice President at DLJ.
In addition to investment banking work, Mr. D’Addario sourced and executed two highly successful deals for DLJ Merchant Banking.
Prior to DLJ, Mr. D’Addario worked as an M&A lawyer at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.
Mr. D’Addario received his B.A.
from Boston College, a M.Sc.
from London School of Economics, and a J.D.
from Villanova Law School.
Paul D'Addario active positions
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Palisades Growth Capital
Palisades Growth Capital Investment ManagersFinance Palisades Growth Capital (Palisades Growth Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Palisades Management LLC founded in 2000 by Anders Richardson and Paul N. D'Addario. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | Founder | 2003-05-31 |
Language Weaver, Inc.
Language Weaver, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Language Weaver provides trusted automated translation solutions for high-value, dynamic digital information to improve human communications. Delivering a trusted level of translation quality, Language Weaver ensures that organizations maintain and extend brand voice across global media types and audiences. Built on reliable, statistically based technology, the company's products have been deployed worldwide across numerous industries and levels of government to increase operational effectiveness, improve brand experiences and boost customer engagement. Language Weaver, Inc. was incorporated in January 2002 to commercialize a statistical approach to automated language translation and natural language processing. This breakthrough technology overcomes the weaknesses that have limited commercial success for automated translation in the past. Language Weaver's technology is the result of more than 300 person-years of invention and development at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute by Drs. Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu, Language Weaver's founders, and their students. Their remarkable successes have made them the world's leaders in statistical approaches to automatic translation and natural language processing. Language Weaver continues to lead the quest for continuous improvements in translation accuracy and more scalable, flexible systems to improve human communications on a new level. | Director/Board Member | - |
Gulf DTH FZ LLC
Gulf DTH FZ LLC Cable/Satellite TVConsumer Services Part of Kuwait Projects Co. (Holding) KSCP, Gulf DTH FZ LLC is an Emirati company that provides subscription-based television services. The private company is based in Dubai Media City, the United Arab Emirates. | Director/Board Member | - |
Former positions of Paul D'Addario
Companies | Position | End |
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PEREGRINE SEMICONDUCTOR CORP | Director/Board Member | 2014-12-11 |
Granahan McCourt Acquisition Corp.
Granahan McCourt Acquisition Corp. Financial ConglomeratesFinance The Company is a blank check Company formed for the purpose of acquiring, or acquiring control of, one or more assets or operating businesses in the telecommunications and media industries. | Director/Board Member | 2008-11-18 |
Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. | Private Equity Investor | 2003-12-31 |
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 1999-12-31 |
Docupace Technologies LLC
Docupace Technologies LLC Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Docupace Technologies LLC provides document management and workflow solutions. It offers ePACS productivity suite, cyber security and straight through processing. The company was founded by Michael Pinsker and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Training of Paul D'Addario
Boston College | Undergraduate Degree |
London School of Economics & Political Science | Graduate Degree |
Villanova University School of Law | Graduate Degree |
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pSemi Corp.
pSemi Corp. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology pSemi Corp. designs and manufactures integrated circuits services. It offers radio frequency switchers, digital step attenuators, digitally tunable capacitors, tuning control switches, power limiters, phase-locked loops, mixers, prescalers, direct current converters, and monolithic phase and amplitude controllers? products. The company was founded by Ron Reedy, Rory Moore and Mark Burgener in 1990 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA. | Electronic Technology |
Lucix Corp.
Lucix Corp. Specialty TelecommunicationsCommunications Lucix Corp. designs, develops, and manufactures commercial and military satellite systems. It offers oscillators assemblies, beacons, power monitors, frequency synthesizers, and central power supply units. The company was founded on February 2, 1999 and is headquartered in Camarillo, CA. | Communications |
Granahan McCourt Acquisition Corp.
Granahan McCourt Acquisition Corp. Financial ConglomeratesFinance The Company is a blank check Company formed for the purpose of acquiring, or acquiring control of, one or more assets or operating businesses in the telecommunications and media industries. | Finance |
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp. | Finance |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Weil, Gotshal & Manges provides its clients with legal services. The firm offers services to areas including consumer, financial, government and non-profit, health care, industrial, and technology. The company was founded by Claude Serra in 1931 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Commercial Services |
Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. | Finance |
Palisades Growth Capital
Palisades Growth Capital Investment ManagersFinance Palisades Growth Capital (Palisades Growth Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Palisades Management LLC founded in 2000 by Anders Richardson and Paul N. D'Addario. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | Finance |
Language Weaver, Inc.
Language Weaver, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Language Weaver provides trusted automated translation solutions for high-value, dynamic digital information to improve human communications. Delivering a trusted level of translation quality, Language Weaver ensures that organizations maintain and extend brand voice across global media types and audiences. Built on reliable, statistically based technology, the company's products have been deployed worldwide across numerous industries and levels of government to increase operational effectiveness, improve brand experiences and boost customer engagement. Language Weaver, Inc. was incorporated in January 2002 to commercialize a statistical approach to automated language translation and natural language processing. This breakthrough technology overcomes the weaknesses that have limited commercial success for automated translation in the past. Language Weaver's technology is the result of more than 300 person-years of invention and development at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute by Drs. Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu, Language Weaver's founders, and their students. Their remarkable successes have made them the world's leaders in statistical approaches to automatic translation and natural language processing. Language Weaver continues to lead the quest for continuous improvements in translation accuracy and more scalable, flexible systems to improve human communications on a new level. | Technology Services |
Gulf DTH FZ LLC
Gulf DTH FZ LLC Cable/Satellite TVConsumer Services Part of Kuwait Projects Co. (Holding) KSCP, Gulf DTH FZ LLC is an Emirati company that provides subscription-based television services. The private company is based in Dubai Media City, the United Arab Emirates. | Consumer Services |
Docupace Technologies LLC
Docupace Technologies LLC Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Docupace Technologies LLC provides document management and workflow solutions. It offers ePACS productivity suite, cyber security and straight through processing. The company was founded by Michael Pinsker and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. | Technology Services |
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