Nat Burgess, founder of TechStrat, has managed over a billion dollars in tech M&A
(including multiple transactions in Finland), and has invested in companies that exited to Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and others. He is a licensed attorney and is active in the startup community.
Prior to being appointed chairman of the World Financial Symposium and president of Corum, Nat worked for Morgan Stanley’s M&A group, helped Activision put the first generation of multiplayer games on the Internet, and interned with the Enforcement Division of the SEC.
Nat is a frequent guest on CNBC and a nationally recognized speaker at industry
conferences, such as the World Financial Symposiums and the RSA Security
conference, among others.
In addition to his professional activities, he and his wife founded the Lopez Strings
Workshop for promising young musicians, support the Burgess-Haig memorial
scholarship at Lakeside, and actively support their children’s schools.
Nat holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Japanese literature from Yale College, and a JD from the UCLA school of law. He attended Kansai Gaidai University and ICU in Japan, and has lived and worked in Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris.