Union Square Advisors Leadership

Harriet Britt is the Chief Compliance Officer at Union Square Advisors. Ms. Britt brings more than 20 years of experience in compliance operations, and finance experience to Union Square Advisors. She oversees the day to day strategic operational functions of the firm: finance and accounting, operations, human resources, and facilities. Prior to joining Union Square Advisors, Ms. Britt served as a consultant for the past five years working with investment banks and investment advisors, including robo-advisors and other FinTech firms. Previously, Ms. Britt served as Chief Compliance Officer with ThinkEquity LLC and Standard Pacific Capital LLC. Ms. Britt’s early career includes tenures at Robertson Stephens, JP Morgan, Montgomery Securities and Bear Stearns.

Ms. Britt graduated from California State Polytechnic University, earning a BS in Agriculture Business Management.

Wayne Kawarabayashi is a Partner, Chief Operating Officer and Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at Union Square Advisors. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Kawarabayashi was a Managing Director in both the Global Mergers and Acquisitions and Global Technology groups at Barclays and Lehman Brothers (which was acquired by Barclays in 2008) working in both New York and London since 1993. Mr. Kawarabayashi has 26 years of investment banking experience executing over $200 billion in technology mergers and acquisitions with an emphasis in software, enterprise IT, financial technology and IT services. Throughout his career, Mr. Kawarabayashi has worked with public and private corporate clients and private equity inside and outside of the technology sector, executing sell-sides, buy-sides, corporate divestitures, IPO carve-outs, cross-border, leveraged buyouts, and Reverse Morris Trust transactions, as well as rendering fairness opinions, advising special committees and providing hostile and defensive advisory services. He has advised on transactions for clients including Automatic Data Processing, Alliance Data Systems, AT&T, Blackstone, Carlyle, Cognos, EMC, General Atlantic, Guidewire, Hellman & Friedman, HP, IBM, Interactive Intelligence, KKR, L-3 Communications, Lionbridge, Permira, Siris, SunGard and Vista.

Mr. Kawarabayashi received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in International Relations from Georgetown University.