|  Jim
Pursiano, a FOCUS Managing Director in the San Francisco
Bay Area region of California, has 20 years of international
M&A experience. His primary focus has been from
a corporate perspective with senior management roles at Chevron
Corporation and Applied Materials.
Mr. Pursiano was a Managing
Director in Applied Materials’ Corporate Business
Development Group from 1999 - 2008. He joined Applied
Materials to help build the firm's Corporate Development
and M&A capabilities. While at Applied,
he closed over 40 deals in the areas of enabling technology,
hardware, software both for process equipment and manufacturing
execution systems, services, and energy solutions. Mr.
Pursiano has also closed numerous minority investments, joint
ventures, joint development and licensing arrangements. His
deal sizes ranged from $10 million to $2B+, and were located
in Israel, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, Taiwan, China,
and Singapore.
From 2005 to 2008, Mr. Pursiano led
the Integration Management Office at Applied where he had
responsibility to integrate all acquired companies into Applied. These activities
included integrating a worldwide service company, a software
product group, a Japanese company “bunkatsu,” and
two solar companies located in Europe. His
primary focus in the integration role was to ensure that
all Board of Directors’ commitments
were met and the acquired businesses integrated to the extent
required to leverage business activities and results.
Prior
to Applied Materials, Mr. Pursiano spent 11 years at Chevron. Mr.
Pursiano had numerous roles in Chevron’s finance organization
and Upstream operations including property divestitures. His
career at Chevron was mostly spent in Chevron Chemical’s
International Business Development Group. In this role,
Mr. Pursiano was a part of the team developing a new $750
million world-scale petrochemical project in Saudi Arabia
with the Saudi Industrial Venture Capital Group, a venture
group in Saudi comprised of the leading business leaders
in the Kingdom. His role was to handle all the economic
valuation and project financing activities where over $500
million were placed with an international loan syndicate
and the Saudi Industrial Development Fund. Mr.
Pursiano also explored M&A and other development opportunities
in Venezuela, Mexico, Singapore, and other Middle Eastern
Companies, as well as numerous chemical divestitures in oilfield
chemicals and consumer products.
Mr. Pursiano earned
an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago. He previously
earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration
from the University of California at Berkeley.
Contact Information:
Jim Pursiano
216 Glorietta Blvd.
Orinda, CA 94563
Phone: 925-386-0507
Cell: 408-921-4051
Fax: 925-258-0679
james.pursiano@focusbankers.com |
