Matthew Eitner – Chief Executive Officer of Laidlaw & Company UK
Matthew Eitner is the chief executive officer of Laidlaw & Company UK. He specializes in the expansion of equity positions in the healthcare sector and in hiring industry-respected figures as directors of expanded teams.
About Matthew Eitner
Matt Eitner is the chief executive officer of Laidlaw & Company UK, an investment management firm with more than 150 employees in offices across the United States and London. As CEO, and alongside managing partner James Ahern, Eitner has expanded the company’s equity positions in the healthcare sector while hiring industry-respected figures as directors of its expanded teams.
Early Life and Career
In 1999, Matt Eitner graduated from University of Scranton in Pennsylvania with a degree in business management. He then worked as an equities trader at NDB Capital Markets in Jersey City, NJ from 2000 to 2002. Subsequently, he moved to New York City and served as vice president of Casimir Capital from 2002 to 2008, whereupon he became managing director of Aegis Capital Corp and serving in that role until 2010, when he joined Laidlaw.
Notable Investments
In October 2020, Matthew Eitner’s firm, Laidlaw and Company, acquired Naples Wealth Planning, a $359 million independent consultation firm, and said that it would grow its offshore advisory business by leveraging the firm’s Miami location.
Laidlaw’s Matthew Eitner in the News
In September 2021, Matt Eitner’s firm served as the lead manager for aTyr Pharma’s (LIFE) $86,250,000 public offering of common stock.
In July 2021, Eitner’s firm was the sole book-running manager for BioSig Technologies’s public offering of common stock. BioSig specializes in a biomedical signal processing platform, and Laidlaw had raised about $40 million for the company over the course of a decade.
In March 2021, Eitner’s firm acted as co-manager on a $25 million follow-on offering for iCad, Inc., a tech company that provides cancer detection and therapy solutions. In addition, Eitner’s firm also announced in March 2021 that it had successfully closed a $4 million Series A financing round for its portfolio company, AerWave, which treats asthma, COPD, and lung disease.
More Investors from the Americas
Arya Bolurfrushan
Arya Bolurfrushan is an angel investor, focused mainly on seed stage investments. Based in New York, in the United States, Bolurfrushan is the Chief Executive Officer and member of the board at Bolurfrushan International, a global investment and insurance brokerage and philanthropic organization.
James Ahern
James “Jim” Ahern is the managing partner of Laidlaw & Company UK and the founder of Laidlaw Venture Partners (LVP).
Jett Fein
Jett Fein is an American investor with major business interests across the globe. Read about his early years and business interests and find out more about significant investments he has been involved with.
Patrick Chung
Patrick Chung is Managing General Partner of Xfund. Prior to Xfund, Patrick was a partner at NEA and led the firm’s consumer and seed investment practices. He is a director of 23andMe and Philo, and led investments in Guideline, Halo Neuro, IFTTT, Landit, Nebula Genomics, NewtonX, Rock Health, ThirdLove, and Zumper. Past investments include Segment (acquired by Twilio), Kensho (acquired by S&P Global), Plaid (almost acquired by Visa), Pulse (acquired by LinkedIn), Loopt (acquired by Green Dot), GoodGuide (acquired by Underwriters Laboratories), Ravel Law (acquired by Lexis-Nexis), Xfire (acquired by Viacom), and Xoom (NASDAQ: XOOM).
Christine Tsai
Christine Tsai, a Guam business executive who co-founded and heads 500 Startups, a global company on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs.
Jocelyn Goldfein
Jocelyn Goldfein is the managing director at Zetta Venture Partners. Read more about her investments and ventures.
Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is the executive founder of Wellville. Read more about this investor, author, journalist, and philanthropist.
Avi Reichental
Avi Reichental is an intrepid investor, digital manufacturing expert and thought leader, driven by the desire to invest in the technologies of tomorrow.
Neil Sweeney
Neil Sweeney, CEO of Freckle IoT has been breaking technology barriers for decades. His latest launch, Killi is a mobile app that puts ownership of personal data back into the hands of consumers.