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Amy Hermes is a Managing Director in D.A. Davidson’s Equity Capital Markets Group and Co-Head of Davidson Engage (The DEN), an exclusive leadership consortium focused on enterprise technology. The DEN provides unparalleled access to technology perspectives from highly-accomplished private company technology executives, practitioners, visionaries, and entrepreneurs with firsthand knowledge of industry trends and market forces, emerging technologies and changing IT requirements, technology disruptions, notable partnerships and alliances, and competitive dynamics.

A serial intraprenuer, Amy has nearly 30 years of experience driving results at the intersection of business and technology. She is well-known for convening leading industry and ecosystem conversations across disciplines, industries, and borders that collaboratively address new and unforeseen opportunities across next-gen cloud and IT infrastructure, data and AI, security and identity, and software and applications.

Amy joins D.A. Davidson after spending more than four years with KeyBanc Capital Markets, where she focused on delivering technology expert network services to institutional accounts across an enterprise technology coverage. Prior to KeyBanc Capital Markets, she spent 17 years at IBM building and scaling several new growth and innovation programs with a focus on making markets in key growth segments with new buyers. Before that she held leadership positions at several dotcom start-ups, and built an e-business leadership curriculum in partnership with UCLA Extension and UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Amy earned a bachelor’s degree in communications and fine arts from The State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany and a master’s in integrated marketing communications from Emerson College, where she was inducted into the Lambda Pi Eta Honor Fraternity.