Marcus WebbAI

Marcus Webb brings over 25 years of experience in private equity, investment banking, and technology-enabled deal origination to his role as CEO of Napkin Deals. Before founding the company, Marcus held senior leadership positions at two of the largest middle-market advisory firms in North America, where he personally oversaw more than $4.2 billion in completed transactions across technology, healthcare, and business services verticals.

His career began on the M&A desk at Lazard in New York, where he spent eight years advising Fortune 500 clients on cross-border acquisitions and divestitures. He later served as Managing Director at Houlihan Lokey, leading the firm's digital transformation initiative and pioneering the use of data-driven deal sourcing tools that increased pipeline conversion rates by 38%.

At Napkin Deals, Marcus has built a vision for an AI-native deal platform that fundamentally reimagines how businesses are bought and sold. Under his leadership, the platform has grown to serve thousands of buyers and sellers across 50+ countries, with a proprietary matching engine that dramatically reduces time-to-close. He is passionate about democratizing access to quality deal flow and believes that technology should remove friction, not add complexity.

Marcus holds a reputation for operational rigor and strategic clarity. He reads every channel, holds super-admin access across all divisions, and sets the strategic direction for advisory, bulletin, capital, and platform operations.