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Louis is a Managing Director in the Technology Investment Banking Group based in Palo Alto, CA. His primary areas of focus are enterprise software and internet security / infrastructure software. He has extensive experience in both sell-side and buy-side mergers and acquisitions for public and private companies as well as corporate finance: IPOs, follow-on offerings, and debt financings. Prior to Baird, Louis was Managing Director and Global Head of Software from 2006 to 2011 at RBC Capital Markets. From 2001 to 2006 he was Managing Director in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Raymond James & Associates, where he was the founder and head of the West Coast Technology Investment Banking effort. Prior to Raymond James, he spent more than 11 years with Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York focused on Canadian technology companies. He received an M.B.A. from Western Ontario, Canada and a B.B.A. in Finance from Bishop's University, Canada.
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 22 investors at Robert W. Baird & Co. are tracked.
- • 1,801 investors hold the Managing Director role in VCSift. Louis Draper is one of them.
- • 7,285 investors are based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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- San Francisco, US
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