Julian Lighton
Julian Lighton is the CEO of Moo Pie Ventures a boutique investment and M&A advisory firm focused on the DigitalMedia, Education and Information Services and Analytics Industries. He is regarded as a subject matter expert intechnology related M&A and deal structuring working extensively with PE firms including, Hellman & Friedman, Francisco Partners, Providence Equity Partners, General Atlantic, One Equity Partners, Summit Equity andReverence Capital.He has been a board advisor to several highly successful startups including Plex, Philo and Pepper.Julianis four-time Chief Strategy Officer and Head of M&A at public scale technology companies -Neustar, TiVo,Outerwall (taken private with Apollo Global) and Corsair (going public in 2020) and, also at leadingEdtech companyRenaissance Learning (selling the company from Hellman & Friedman to Francisco Partners). Previously Julian was asenior executive at Cisco Inc for ten years and was instrumental in the growth and evolution of the company'senterprise salesorganization (representing over $25bn in product and services revenues); he held two other keypositions leading Emerging Markets ($4.5bn geographic division comprising 136 countries in LATM, MEA, CEE andRussia and the former CIS), and founded and led the Consulting Services and Tools divisions.He has held further executive positions at Hitachi Ltd and with McKinsey & Co, Cambridge Technology Partners,Andersen Consulting Europe and Gödel, Escher, Bach Ltd.He holds a BA and MA/BCL in Law from Oxford University, an MA from the EEU Program on ComparativeInternational Law, Universite de la Sorbonne, Paris No 1, and Diplomas in Negotiation from The Kennedy School ofGovernment at Harvard University and from the London School of Economics”