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Jane Gladstone
Head, Financial Services Corporate Advisory Practice
Evercore Partners

With postcrisis reforms and other market uncertainties clouding the financial industry’s profitability outlook, buyers and sellers of fintech companies are ever more inclined to seek out boutique investment banks for the attentiveness and niche-market expertise that they cultivate, Jane Gladstone says. Since leaving Morgan Stanley to join Evercore Partners in 2005 — ten years after former U.S. Treasury official and Blackstone Group vice chairman Roger Altman founded the New York–based firm — Gladstone has been one of the premier boutique bankers in financial technology. As head of the financial services corporate advisory practice, she has put Evercore on the map with marquee deals like high frequency trading firm Virtu Financial’s $314 million IPO in April. That was but the latest lucrative win in a sector that Gladstone, who turns 47 in November, helped to shape. Another was the $29 billion sale of First Data Corp. to KKR & Co. in 2007. When Gladstone started her 12-year stint with Morgan Stanley, she says, “there wasn’t such a thing as fintech, but it was clear to me in the late ’90s that technology was going to utterly transform financial services.” In 1995 she became an associate, advising on M&A and IPOs, and was covering such now-big names as CME Group and Intercontinental Exchange before others paid much attention to them. Opting out of the MBA track, Gladstone brought to finance a bachelor’s in art history from the University of Virginia, initially taking a job with private equity firm Hambro Magan in London. “I didn’t see much of a leap from auctioning paintings to auctioning companies,” she says.

 
The 2015 Fintech Finance 35

1. James Robinson III & James Robinson IV RRE Ventures 2. Jane Gladstone Evercore Partners 3. Matthew Harris Bain Capital Ventures Sponsored Is the Market Really Sure About Its Direction? Sponsored by CME Group October 27, 2025 4. Steven McLaughlin Financial Technology Partners 5. Jonathan Korngold General Atlantic

6. Richard Garman & Brad Bernstein FTV Capital 7. Amy Nauiokas & Sean Park Anthemis Group 8. Thomas Jessop Goldman Sachs Group 9. Meyer (Micky) Malka Ribbit Capital 10. Hans Morris Nyca Partners

11. Maria Gotsch Partnership Fund for New York City 12. Marc Andreessen Andreessen Horowitz 13. Barry Silbert Digital Currency Group 14. Jay Reinemann Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria 15. Mariano Belinky Santander InnoVentures

16. François Robinet AXA Strategic Ventures 17. Vanessa Colella Citi Ventures 18. Alan Freudenstein & Gregory Grimaldi Credit Suisse NEXT Fund 19. Justin Brownhill & Neil DeSena SenaHill Partners 20. Rodger Voorhies Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

21. Michael Schlein Accion International 22. Kenneth Marlin Marlin & Associates 23. Rumi Morales CME Ventures 24. Mark Beeston Illuminate Financial Management 25. Vladislav Solodkiy Life.SREDA

26. Fabian Vandenreydt Innotribe SWIFT 27. Derek White Barclays 28. Alex Batlin UBS 29. Jeffrey Greenberg & Vincenzo La Ruffa Aquiline Capital Partners 30. P. Howard Edelstein REDI Holdings

31. Nektarios Liolios Startupbootcamp FinTech 32. Roy Bahat Bloomberg Beta 33. Andrew McCormack Valar Ventures 34. Lawrence Wintermeyer Innovate Finance 35. Janos Barberis FinTech Hong Kong