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Matthew Stopnik is a Managing Director and Co-Head of U.S. Investment Banking. He joined RBC Capital Markets in January 2015 as the Co-Head of Financial Sponsors. Prior to joining RBC, Matthew spent 20 years at UBS Investment Bank where his most recent role was serving as its U.S. Head of Financial Sponsors.

At RBC, Matthew is responsible for U.S. Investment Banking. He shares responsibility for coverage of banking clients and prospects, including corporate finance industry groups, mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, leveraged finance, and loan and high-yield capital markets teams. Matthew is also responsible for managing RBC’s relationships with some of the largest and most active private equity firms in the world. He serves on the firm’s Global Capital Markets and U.S. Regional Operating Committees and he is a member of the firm’s Commitments Committee.

Matthew is Vice Chair and a member of the Board of Trustees of the TEAK Fellowship, a member of the Board of Youth, INC. and a David Rockefeller Fellow of the Partnership for New York City. He received a B.A from the University of Michigan. Matthew and his wife live in New York City with their two children.

JF Chaput is a Managing Director in the U.S. Financial Sponsors Group. Prior to joining the Financial Sponsors Group in 2018, JF was a senior banker in RBC’s US Leveraged Finance group covering a number of verticals across Healthcare, Media and Technology. JF is a graduate of HEC Montreal and the London School of Economics.

Tim Karman is a Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Internet Investment Banking at RBC Capital Markets with over 19+ years at RBC. He focuses on advising companies in the Internet and Vertical Software sectors on strategic alternatives and capital raising initiatives.

Previously, Tim worked in the technology M&A practice at Robertson Stephens in San Francisco. Prior to investment banking, Tim worked at Toyota Financial Services on the $2.5B commercial paper program and interest rate hedging instruments.

Tim holds a BA from University of California at Davis and an MBA with Honors from Harvard Business School.

Sasson Darwish is a Managing Director in the Technology Investment Banking Group at RBC, leading the converging technologies coverage which include IoT and all connected things efforts (cars, city, factory and wearables) across all the group's verticals; Sass is also heading the Israel country coverage for RBC.

Prior to that, he was a Managing Director and Head of the Americas Technology Investment Banking Group at Nomura Holdings and Head of East Coast coverage for the Technology Investment Banking Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Earlier in his career, he was a Vice President in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Lehman Brothers. Sass was a Captain in the Israeli Defense Force, received his undergraduate degrees in economics and management from Tel Aviv University and his MBA from Yale School of Management.

Brandon joined RBC in 2013 from Piper Jaffray, where he worked in the Technology, Media & Telecom group. Prior to investment banking, Brandon began his career at AMC Networks where he worked on digital transformation initiatives for IFCtv and Sundance Channel.

Brandon has spent his entire career advising Consumer Internet and Vertical SaaS companies.

Brandon holds a BA from Tufts University and JD & MBA from NYU School of Law & Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Nick Stevenson is a Managing Director and Global Head of Communications, Media and Entertainment (CME) investment banking at RBC. Mr. Stevenson joined RBC Capital Markets in June 2001 to head up the CME practice and has spent 18 years helping to build an industry leading effort at the firm.