Kyle Ryland. Menlo Park.
Mr. Ryland joined Silver Lake in 2007 from Shah Capital Partners and is a Managing Director focused on the firm’s middle market strategy, Silver Lake Sumeru. He has in-depth experience with financings, mergers and acquisitions in the technology sector. Before joining Shah Capital, he was a managing director at Lehman Brothers and head of Global Technology Investment Banking. Prior to Lehman Brothers, he was an investment banker at Robertson Stephens covering clients in a variety of hardware sectors, and before that he worked in the Venture Capital group executing venture capital and leveraged buyout transactions in the technology industry. Mr. Ryland is a director on the boards of AVI-SPL, Inc. and Power-One, Inc. He also serves on the board of directors of Magellan, PulseCore, Ingenient and TES. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and Public Policy Studies from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business.