David Stowell
Professor of Finance
Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management
Dean’s Convocation – Wednesday, October 17, 2007
David P. Stowell is a professor of finance at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, where he teaches classes that focus on investment banking, hedge funds and private equity. He also teaches undergraduate courses on these topics at Northwestern University, Utah State University and University of Utah.
Prior to joining Northwestern in 2005, he was a managing director at JP Morgan, responsible for the firm's mid-west investment banking business based in Chicago. In addition, he worked in investment banking at UBS as managing director and co-head of U.S. equity capital markets, and at Goldman Sachs, where he managed an equity derivatives business in New York and worked in corporate finance and M&A in Tokyo. He was also a managing director at O'Connor Partners, a large hedge fund based in Chicago, which he joined after leaving Goldman Sachs in 1993. At O'Connor, he developed new hedge fund products which were directed to corporations interested in fund raising and risk management. O'Connor Partners was subsequently sold to UBS, where he focused on equity capital markets and equity derivatives activities before finishing his investment banking career at JP Morgan.
He graduated from Utah State University with a BA in Economics and from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business with an MBA in Finance. In addition to his current teaching responsibilities he manages Paradigm Partners, a boutique investment bank which provides M&A and capital raising services and general advice on investment banking, hedge fund and private equity activities.