Financial Technology Partners (FT Partners), an investment bank focused exclusively on FinTech, has hired William Blair & Co Managing Director and FinTech specialist, Phil Olson as a managing director.
Olson has over 15 years experience in the FinTech sector and has been a key figure in over 100 M&A and financing transactions at William Blair (13 years) and Merrill Lynch (2 years). Effective immediately, he is the senior banker in the firm's newly-formed Chicago office.
Steve McLaughlin, Founder, CEO and Managing Partner of FT Partners, remarked: "When I founded the Firm fifteen years ago, the Firm's mission was to build the investment bank that we'd want to hire if we were a FinTech CEO – and that's exactly what we've done. Today, we are proud to double-down on this vision with the addition of Phil Olson to further strengthen our team and add significant depth / domain expertise to our execution capabilities – and we are absolutely delighted to welcome Phil to our winning team."
"I'm extremely pleased to join Steve and the entire FT Partners team,” says Olson. “The FT Partners franchise has blown the FinTech industry away with its passionate, deeply-client centric model of investment banking – and having seen that in action, I wanted to be a part of that vision. The platform that FT Partners has built is truly unique and the depth of domain expertise is unmatched in the industry. It's a great fit for me and I could not be more excited to help build out the platform globally."
