Brewer Stone
Brewer Stone is head of Asian Investment Banking at Pacific Crest. Throughout his 16-year banking career, he has focused on advising technology companies in Asia and the U.S. in completing equity financings and M&A. Most recently, Mr. Stone led FBR Capital Markets’ Communications and IT Services investment banking practices, where his clients included Siemens Enterprise Communications, Neophotonics, and Excel Telecom. After beginning his finance career in New York, he opened Prudential Securities' first office in China in 1994. Mr. Stone then served as Managing Director and Head of Asian Investment Banking at Prudential in Hong Kong, and subsequently as Managing Director at the Prudential Volpe Technology Group in San Francisco. After working at Crimson Ventures, he co-founded East Peak Advisors, where he led the firm’s successful communications practice until its acquisition by FBR. Mr. Stone holds a B.A., with Highest Honors, from the University of California at Berkeley, his M.A., with Distinction, from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. At Harvard, he won Fulbright and MacArthur Scholarships for his work on China and India. Mr. Stone is fluent in Chinese.
