Edward Rimland
Senior Managing Director
Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.
Mr. Rimland is a Senior Managing Director in the New York office and the senior member of Bear Stearns' Mergers and Acquisition Group with responsibility for the Technology sector. He is also a member of the firm's Valuation Committee which is responsible for reviewing all of the firm's fairness opinions. He joined Bear Stearns in 1992, after spending five years in the Mergers and Acquisition Department of Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated.
Over the past fifteen years, he has been involved in the strategic and tactical analysis of a wide variety of M&A transactions, including domestic and international acquisitions (public and private), exclusive sales, joint ventures and takeover defense with an aggregate value in excess of $100 billion. Further, his transaction experience encompasses a wide variety of sub-sectors in technology including aerospace/defense, software, information services, semiconductors and telecom equipment. Mr. Rimland received a B.A.S. and a B.S. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.