David Golden

David Golden partnered with Steve Case at Revolution in 2006, shortly after its founding, bringing his extensive history as a financier of emerging growth companies and his deep understanding of capital markets. His partnership with Revolution came after 18 years with JPMorgan, and a predecessor firm, Hambrecht & Quist.

While there, David was named co-director of mergers and acquisitions in 1992, director of mergers and acquisitions in 1995, and co-director of investment banking in 1998. Most recently he was Vice Chairman and Director of JPMorgan's global investment banking practice for technology, media and telecommunications clients and was a member of the investment bank's management committee. During these years, he acted as lead merger advisor, equity underwriter or investor on more than 150 transactions.

David is credited with negotiating and structuring the only four-way, public company, pooling-of-interests merger and was instrumental in the development of off-balance sheet financing vehicles for the biotechnology industry. He also negotiated the first public company stock-for-stock acquisition by a U.S. company for a U.K. company. David was also instrumental in forming, and subsequently acting on the investment committee for, the Bay Area Equity Fund, a venture capital fund focused on a “double bottom line” return – both economic return and community development – for Northern California. From 1984 through 1987, David was an associate at the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and London, where he practiced corporate finance and securities law. Prior to practicing law, David was a law clerk to the Honorable Charles M. Merrill of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

David received an A.B. from Harvard University (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and a J.D. from Harvard Law School (cum laude), where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. David is a member of the Advisory Board of Granite Ventures LLC (technology venture capital firm) and the Advisory Board for Partners for Growth, L.P. (venture lending firm). He is the Executive Chairman of Code Advisors LLC, a next-generation investment bank focused on the intersections of technology and media. David is a Trustee of The Branson School, the Bay Institute Aquarium Foundation and ABC2, (a non-profit foundation focused on cancer research). He is a director of Everyday Health and Extend Health and formerly served on the boards of Exclusive Resorts and Revolution Money.