The modern merchant bank for the age of AI
Yorkville Ives & Co. brings together decades of experience across proprietary equity research, strategic advisory, capital raising, and investments to support companies in achieving their strategic and financial objectives.
About Us
Yorkville Ives is an integrated, modern merchant bank built for the way capital and information move today.
The Company is founded on two complementary pillars:
The Yorkville Securities team’s years of experience investing principal and partner capital, structuring complex transactions, and building lasting relationships with clients globally.
Dan Ives’ globally recognized authority on technology and AI research, trusted by investors, executives, and policymakers to interpret the forces reshaping the global economy.
Together, Yorkville Ives is a modern merchant bank that combines industry leading research, strategic advisory, capital raising capabilities and a significant balance sheet to stand alongside its clients at every stage of their growth and development.
what we do
Our integrated platform supports clients’ growth at every stage of their capital and strategic journey. We are an end to end partner for our clients and investors.
Capital Raising
We raise equity and debt capital across public and private markets, structuring solutions that match each client’s growth ambitions and stage. Drawing on deep relationships with investors, we position our clients to secure capital on the right terms, from the right partners.
Aligned Capital
We invest with conviction and patience, committing capital alongside our clients, aligning incentives and growing with our partners across industries and geographies.
Advisory
We partner with boards, management teams, business owners, financial sponsors, and investors to navigate their most important strategic and financial decisions. We advise across mergers and acquisitions, strategic alternatives, restructuring, and other complex transactions, bringing senior-level judgment and independent perspective to every engagement.
Research
We provide industry leading research across disruptive technology, industrials, energy & infrastructure, and other growth sectors, translating complexity into clear, actionable insight. We prize originality over consensus, pressure-testing assumptions before they reach our clients.
Leadership
Roger Briggs
Chief Executive Officer
Roger Briggs currently serves as Chief Executive Officer at Yorkville Ives. Roger began his career in mergers and acquisitions at Salomon Brothers and later served as Head of M&A at Bankers Trust. He subsequently held senior leadership roles as Head of Investment Banking at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey (now Truist Securities) and at Morgan Joseph, where he was a founder and Vice Chairman. Most recently, Roger served as Head of Corporate Finance and Equity Capital Markets for North America at Rabobank. Roger holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.
Dan Ives
Partner and Senior Managing Director
Daniel Ives is a Partner and Senior Managing Director at Yorkville Ives focused on building out the tech research franchise at Yorkville Ives. Dan was a Managing Director, Global Head of Tech Research, and Senior Equity Research Analyst that covered the Technology sector at Wedbush Securities from August 2018 until July 2026. Dan has been a tech analyst on Wall Street for over 25 years covering the software and the broader technology sector. He spent the first few years of his career as a financial analyst at HBO and then received his MBA in Finance before becoming a globally known technology equity research analyst and Managing Director with FBR Capital Markets for 16 years, focusing on the enterprise software/hardware sectors including cyber security, cloud computing, big data technology, and the mobile landscape. A major area of his research focus is the AI Revolution and disruptive technology over the next decade.
Dan is a regularly sought after tech expert around the world, has been a keynote speaker across the US, Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia and regularly makes television appearances on networks such as CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, Fox News, BBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, Yahoo! TV, France 24, Sky News, ABC Australia, TV Tokyo and many networks around the world to provide commentary related to his technology expertise. Dan has also appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, PBS NewsHour, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and The Daily Show. Dan can be heard regularly doing radio on the tech sector for Bloomberg, ABC News, NPR, BBC, and other radio programs. Dan is often cited globally by publications such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Investors Business Daily, Chicago Tribune, NY Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The Telegraph, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Magazine, Le Monde, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, Daily Mail, South China Morning Post, Barron’s, The Times of London, Financial Times, Le Figaro, The Sydney Morning Herald, and New York Times, among many others. Named by the New York Post in 2024 as the “Best Dressed Man on Wall Street” in a fashion profile article. He holds a BS in Finance from Penn State University and an MBA from the University of Maryland.
Kevin Merritt
Director of Research
Kevin Merritt is Director of Research at Yorkville Ives, leading our team of equity analysts across various sectors. Before joining Yorkville Ives, Kevin spent 25+ years in equity research roles, on the sellside and buyside, including 10+ years as a Director of Research, and 15+ years as an investment analyst and portfolio manager, focused on TMT. Among other roles, he led a team of 50+ analysts/associates at Wedbush Securities, and co-led a team of 125+ PMs, analysts and associates at Aptigon Capital (Citadel). Kevin received an MBA from INSEAD, and a BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Between his studies, he served as a Volunteer with the US Peace Corps in Slovakia. Kevin has served the LGS Foundation as a Board of Directors member and its Treasurer for six years, and is also a Volunteer Advocacy Ambassador for Autism Speaks.
Troy Rillo
Partner
Troy is a Founder and Partner of Yorkville Ives, a Partner at Yorkville Advisors Global, LP, an affiliated, SEC-registered investment adviser to a family of hedge funds and a Founder and currently serves as Chairman of Yorkville America, LLC, an affiliated, SEC-registered investment adviser to branded investment products, such as ETFs and SMAs. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer and/or Chief Financial Officer of several related Yorkville Advisors Global, LP special purpose acquisition companies. Prior to joining Yorkville Advisors Global, LP, Troy was a corporate and securities partner at K&L Gates LLP, a leading international law firm. Troy earned both his J.D. and B.S. in Finance, magna cum laude, from the University of Florida.