Martin D. Wolf
Meet the Team
Decades of experience working for you.
Martin D. Wolf
Founder and Chairman
Marty founded martinwolf in 1997 and has led the firm for more than 28 years, creating over $6 billion in value across 250+ transactions. As Founder and Chairman, he continues to guide martinwolf’s largest and most complex engagements as well as spending time with his family. He loves playing with his grandchildren, traveling and being outdoors in Jackson Hole.
Before founding martinwolf, he served as President of the Franchise and Distribution Division at ComputerLand Corporation, a $1 billion+ franchiser of computer resellers. He served as Executive Vice President at Merisel, the second-largest public IT distributor, from 1994 to 1996. He also founded MergerTech, where he was Chairman from 2009 to 2017.
He is a graduate of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and a FINRA-registered broker.
Published Work
- Chinese M&A is Down, But Far From Over {LinkedIn}
- A Surge of M&A in the Global Cybersecurity Market {LinkedIn}
- From Conference Hall to Earnings Call, Cloud Powers Microsoft Momentum {LinkedIn}
- Acquire or Evolve: What Insight and CDW's Q2 Earnings Prove About the Industry {LinkedIn}
- From Conference Hall to Earnings Call, Cloud Powers Microsoft Momentum {LinkedIn}
- Number Two in Market Share But Hardly Second Place {LinkedIn}
- FANG Stocks Are Anything but a Bubble {Business Insider}
- Presidio in the Public Eye: Will Others Dare to Follow? {LinkedIn}
- 2016: The Melting Pot Market {LinkedIn}
- Partner Up: Dell, EMC and What It Means for the Channel {LinkedIn}
- Heads in the Cloud {LinkedIn}
- PC Shipments Decline in Perfect Storm {LinkedIn}
- IBM: Transforming a Transformation {LinkedIn}
- A Dynamic Future for Microsoft {LinkedIn}
- A Little Help From My Friends: Private Equity and Solution Providers {LinkedIn}
- Viewpoint: Looking Forward From Today's Economy {LinkedIn}
- For IBM A Lesson on Transformation {LinkedIn}
- Certain Uncertainty: Behind the Volatility in Today's Markets {LinkedIn}
- A Tale of Two Companies: HP to Split {LinkedIn}
- Counting on Comets: End of XP Support Drives PC Resellers Up {LinkedIn}
- Inverting the Incentives {LinkedIn}
- Zones not pursuing PCM takeover {CRN}
- Why BlackBerry is no Burberry {VentureBeat} [PDF]
- India’s IT firms face challenges: China is not one of them {VCCircle}
- Outlook For IT Channel Leveraged Buyout Valuations Looking Up {CRN}
- Will Buying Nokia Lead to the Breakup of Microsoft? {YAHOO! Finance}
- What Company Would Buy BlackBerry? {YAHOO! Finance}
- Here’s Why China Isn’t Taking Over the IT World … Yet {YAHOO! Finance}
- Dell's Last Stand? {YAHOO! Finance}
- Facebook’s Numbers Don’t Add Up {YAHOO! Finance}
- The Dow Is Having a Party, and Tech Isn’t Invited {YAHOO! Finance}
- CompuCom: A Blueprint For VARs In Transition {CRN}
- Office Depot and OfficeMax: Stronger as One? {YAHOO! Finance}
- Dell’s Transformation Won’t Mirror IBM {YAHOO! Finance}
- Investment in Dell Could Signal Microsoft Migration From PC Business {YAHOO! Finance}
- Middle Market U.S. Companies Are ‘On Sale’ Indefinitely for Foreign Buyers {YAHOO! Finance}
- Surface Tension: The Next Move For Spurned Microsoft Partners {CRN}
- Five Things That Destroy Value {GigaOM}
- SaaS Deals Soar, But Don't Worry — It's Not 1999 {Mergers & Acquisitions}
- Value Facebook Like Apple — And Its Worth Plummets {GigaOM}
- Opportunistic Acquisitions: Blow Money in Vegas Instead {GigaOM}
- With $60B in cash, Microsoft is set to blow up its business {CNET}
- Waiting for Facebook to hit IPO price again? Keep waiting {CNET}
- Why Microsoft Is More Like Philip Morris Than Apple {CRN}
- Keeping an Eye on China {VC Circle}
- Facebook or Yahoo: Which One Gets Back to $38 First? {Business Insider}
- Microsoft and Its Partners: Sexless Marriages {CRN}
- IT Competition Heats Up As U.S.-China Relations Thaw {CRN}
- Enterprise Systems: Just One More Thing For Dell to Overcome {YAHOO! Finance}