Shannon Soqui serves as Chief Financial Officer for Pave Finance, Inc., overseeing financial accounting, budgeting, forecasting, strategy, reporting, capital financings, and corporate governance for the company.

Mr. Soqui brings a unique combination of disciplines to the CFO role, with a career that spans accounting, law, and investment banking at the highest levels of Silicon Valley. He spent 20 years as a technology investment banker at firms including Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Credit Suisse, and UBS, completing more than 100 corporate finance and M&A transactions valued at more than $20 billion. His expertise spanned enterprise software, internet, cloud computing, semiconductors, and clean technology, with clients including Advanced Micro Devices, Amazon, Cisco Systems, and Texas Instruments. Before investment banking, he practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and Gunderson Dettmer in Palo Alto, advising on public offerings, venture capital financings, M&A, and SEC compliance and reporting. Before practicing law, he was a staff accountant in the audit department at KPMG in San Jose, working with clients including Hitachi Data Systems, National Semiconductor, and Toshiba.

Mr. Soqui holds a B.A. in Economics with an emphasis in Accounting from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Santa Clara University School of Law, and is a Certified Public Accountant.