Gregory Mark Hill
Mr. Hill serves as Managing Director for Trenwith Securities in the U.S., and is responsible for managing Trenwith Asia, where he also serves as a member of the Firm's Executive Committee. Under Mr. Hill's leadership, the Firm established a government-approved Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise ("WOFE") in Beijing, China, where Mr. Hill serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Director.
Mr. Hill's career spans nearly two decades with significant experience in investment banking to deliver clients a full range of merger & acquisition and corporate finance services. Mr. Hill was most recently senior Managing Director at CKI Capital LLC, a merchant banking advisory firm helping clients buy, sell, or joint venture in China, Korea, India and Australia. Previously, he was General Partner at V2V Ventures LLC, which was granted a Beijing national government license in 2001 to create a SINO-US Venture Capital and IT Consulting Joint Venture Firm with Tsinghua University Enterprise Group and Tsinghua Venture Capital called Tsinghua Venture Capital Management.
Prior to Tsinghua, Mr. Hill worked for 14 years in U.S. investment banking and completed more than 100 transactions with a volume over $20Billion in public and private capital market transactions at Credit Suisse First Boston and Deutsche Bank. He was Co-Leader of the Fixed Income CSFB Technology Investment Banking Group and senior investment banker in Semiconductors. At Deutsche Bank, he was Head of Relationship Management for the East Coast Technology Group, and later was senior banker in the DMG Technology investment banking practice. Mr. Hill originally began as an industrial investment banker at Deutsche Bank AG, New York.
Prior to Deutsche Bank, Mr. Hill was an officer in the LBO Group of The Bank of New York having worked on large deals including REVLON, Reliance Electronics, Scholastic Publishing, Coleman Lanterns, Gibraltar Saving Bank and Lifetime Cutlery. He also worked in the Strategic Planning / M&A Group where he worked on the hostile-turned-friendly acquisition of Irving Trust Bancorp, a seminal transaction creating the 10th largest bank in the U.S. with total assets of $50 billion at that time.
Mr. Hill holds a B.A. in Economics from Trinity College, and Series 7 and 63 licenses.