Houlihan Lokey announced that Ryan Lund has joined the firm?s global Technology Group as a Managing Director. Mr. Lund has been appointed Co-Head of U.S. Technology alongside John Lambros and Jason Hill and Global Co-Head of Software with Sascha Pfeiffer. He is based in Miami.

Mr. Lund joins from UBS, where he was a Managing Director and Global Head of Software Investment Banking. Prior to UBS, Mr. Lund was Global Head of Software for RBC Capital Markets and spent more than 20 years at Raymond James where he most recently co-led the enterprise software investment banking team. Since 1999, Mr. Lund has advised on more than 100 M&A, public capital markets, and private capital transactions for software companies.

In addition to Mr. Lund, Vikram Kaushik and Ted Sullivan also have joined Houlihan Lokey?s Technology Group as directors to further strengthen the software practice. Mr. Kaushik and Mr. Sullivan both join from UBS, where they were executive directors in the Technology Investment Banking Group, primarily focused on enterprise software. Both officers also have held roles in RBC Capital Markets?

Technology Group. They are based in New York.