Yuee Wakabayashi

Vice President
Yuee Wakabayashi
HOME BASE
Los Angeles
BEFORE ACCORDION
  • SavATree

  • Deutsche Bank
  • NuMSP
  • Charter Communications
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Stifel
  • Anvil Advisors
  • Citi Habitats

ALMA MATER
  • NYU Stern School of Business, B.S. in Finance & Accounting

HOME BASE
Los Angeles
BEFORE ACCORDION
  • SavATree

  • Deutsche Bank
  • NuMSP
  • Charter Communications
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Stifel
  • Anvil Advisors
  • Citi Habitats

ALMA MATER
  • NYU Stern School of Business, B.S. in Finance & Accounting

Yuee is a Vice President with more than a decade of experience in investment banking, corporate development, strategic finance, and private equity-backed M&A roll-ups in technology, telecom, tech-enabled services, and arboriculture services. He has advised and executed on dozens of transactions that span across M&A advisory, IPOs, private capital raises, and buyside execution.​

With Accordion, Yuee partners with the management of private-equity backed companies on strategic FP&A engagements delivering key operational insights and value creation.​ Additionally, he is frequently partnered with the data & analytics practice to spearhead hybrid engagements in implementing data warehouses and financial dashboards to empower offices of the CFO with analytical insights.

Before joining Accordion, Yuee was a Vice President of M&A at SavATree, a private equity-backed provider of tree, shrub, and lawn care services. At SavATree, Yuee led the acquisitions and integrations of tree service companies across the U.S.​

Prior to SavATree, Yuee served as the head of corporate development at NuMSP, a private equity-backed managed service provider. At NuMSP, Yuee stood up the M&A function from sourcing to execution to integration and helped grow the organization to 250 employees since inception by acquiring 13 companies in its first year of business.​

Yuee’s prior investment banking experience includes analyst and associate roles in the technology investment banking groups at Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, and Stifel where he advised on transactions with public and private companies in software, business services, semiconductors, internet, quantum computing, fintech, and robotics. Some of his notable transactions include advising on the $1.2 billion deSPAC of Rigetti Computing with Supernova Partners; $1.1 billion sale of Constant Contact to Endurance International and its subsequent spin-off led by Clearlake Capital and Siris Capital; and Cvent’s IPO, follow-on, and subsequent $1.6 billion sale to Vista Equity.​

Yuee started his career at Anvil Advisors, where he provided 409A valuations and valuation advisory services to tech startups and previously cooked for the Michelin Star restaurant, Sushi Azabu.​

Yuee graduated from New York University, Stern School of Business with a B.S. in Finance and Accounting.​

Something you should know
  • Once had a cooking stint at a Michelin Star restaurant in NYC
  • Actively participates in a variety of sports such as kite surfing, scuba diving, snowboarding, tennis, and soccer
Noteworthy
  • Launched a social media app to the iOS app store