SPMB History
Client Success Stories
Clients in the public eye (for better or worse)
SPMB Fun Facts
Team Consumer Trivia
100
SPMB was founded in this year
1977
100
Lee Schweichler eventually made millions by taking fees in equity while working with this now well-known networking company
Cisco - Lee placed John Chambers, Cisco's legendary CEO, when the company was a small startup. They couldn't pay him in cash so he took the fee in equity and continued to do many more searches for them in the years to come.
100
This former client has six rings to show for their success
Golden State Warriors
100
In 2014, this city became the site of SPMB's first office outside of the bay area
Denver, CO
100
In 2015, SPMB turbocharged its consumer practice by recruiting this person to join the firm from a much larger competitor
Becky!!!
200
In 2013, the firm moved its headquarters from this city to San Francisco
Larkspur
200
This company took aim at the paper industry when it was founded in 2003. It IPOed in 2018 and now trades on the NASDAQ with a market cap of $45B, but prior to its IPO, SPMB did eight searches for it
DocuSign
200
This active client was at the center of the recent Gamestop / Wall Street controversy
Robinhood
200
All of the active Managing Partners (Dave Mullarkey, Kevin Barry, Mike Doonan, Eamonn Tucker) started their careers at SPMB as analysts, except this person
Kevin Barry
200
Four members of Team Consumer graduated from this school that Nate is obligated to dislike
UC Berkeley (AJ, Cole, Erika, Ji)
300
Of the Managing Partners whose initials represent SPMB, this MP joined the firm last and is credited with getting us into working with software companies
Kevin Barry - Left Pierce and Crow to become a 4th Partner (and employee #12) to focus on Enterprise Software
300
SPMB did 11 searches for this consumer health company which IPOed in 2015 and was acquired by Google earlier this month for over $2B.
Fitbit
300
In 2018, a star was born at the same time we were working with this client (person or company is ok)
Lady Gaga - Haus Laboratories
300
SPMB has done work with all of the "FANG" stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google) except this one
Netflix
300
Members of Team Consumer are currently living in this number of geographic regions
Five (Bay Area, LA, NY, Hawaii, NV)
400
In 2000, Lee Schweichler merged our firm with this competitor, which happened to be run by the father of a current SPMB partner
TATCO - The Thomas A. Tucker Company, run by Eamonn's father
400
SPMB has completed a whopping 21 searches (and counting) for this company which was founded by a legend with a limp and recently IPOed.
C3
400
In 2016 we did a CEO search for the entertainment company that was founded by this celebrity Joker
Jared Leto
400
SPMB has completed a total of 27 searches for FANG companies, but we have done the most for this one
Amazon - 16
Google - 9
FB - 2
400
Of Team Consumer members, Nate has been at SPMB the longest. This person has been at the firm the next longest.
Dean (2014)
Becky, Ross, and Carleigh all joined in 2015
500
Until 2004, the firm's name was Schweichler Associates and it's tagline was this
Small Firm. Big Results.
500
After completing seven searches for this client over the course of more than a decade, the company finally IPOed earlier this week.
On24
500
This former client raised over $120M in funding from some of the most highly regarded VCs in silicon valley before Bloomberg published a story that squeezed the life out of it and caused it to fold.
Juicero
500
Prior to Amy joining the firm in 2017, our HR Manager was
Amanda Collins
500
Today, "Team Consumer" includes roughly 15 people across four locations. That's incredible considering just seven years ago we had this number of people dedicated to consumer
Zero (SPMB's dedicated consumer practice didn't exist until 2014)