Barclays announced the appointments of Douglas Melsheimer as a Managing Director in Technology Investment Banking, and Vladimir Ganchev as a Managing Director in Technology M&A. Mr. Melsheimer will focus on software, with emphasis on Human Capital Management (HCM) Software and Customer Experience (CX), and will report to Marco Valla, Global Head of Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) Banking at Barclays. Mr. Ganchev will report to Richard Hardegree, Head of Technology M&A at Barclays. Both Mr. Melsheimer and Mr. Ganchev will be based in New York.

Mr. Melsheimer joins Barclays from Goldman Sachs where he was a Managing Director in the TMT and Cross Markets Group (CMG) teams. At Goldman Sachs, he helped to establish and expand the CMG practice, which has grown into a multi-billion dollar business. With close to twenty-five years of advisory experience, Mr. Melsheimer has led the origination and execution of a number of high-profile transactions. His most recent transactions include advising on the sale of Greenhouse Software to TPG, the acquisition of Cornerstone on behalf of Clearlake, the sale of Optimizely to Episerver/Insight, the IPOs and follow-ons of DoubleVerify, the IPO of Livevox, the sale of Jaggaer to Cinven, the sale of Hirevue to Carlyle and the sale of iCIMS to Vista Equity.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 2017, Mr. Melsheimer co-founded the investment banking boutiques Bulger Partners (acquired by EY/Parthenon) and Harbor View Advisors. Mr. Ganchev joins Barclays from Credit Suisse, where he advised Corporate and Private Equity clients on all aspects of M&A, including preparation, deal strategy and approach, structuring, tactics, negotiations with counterparties, and process management. He has broad experience across Software, Services, Payments, Semi-conductors and Internet, and has advised on M&A transactions totaling over $100bn in value.

Prior to joining Credit Suisse in early 2014, Mr. Ganchev worked for Macquarie Capital, where he started his career in 2010.