A Northern California professional with extensive experience in technology M&A banking, Paul Tadashi Inouye works with visionary entrepreneurs in rethinking inefficient processes across supply chains, retail operations, and insurance sectors. Assisting innovative startups in achieving exits, Paul Tadashi Inouye draws on a longstanding network of Silicon Valley relationships at numerous leading strategic technology companies.
Over the years, Mr. Inouye has engineered more than 140 transactions, representing an aggregate value above $50 billion. Before launching Western Hills Partners, his current firm, he served as a partner of Internet and Software with Union Square and coordinated deals involving companies such as Quicken.com, Sailthru and Flyte..
Mr. Inouye is an avid traveler who has had the opportunity to visit more than two dozen countries across four continents. Another longstanding interest is World War Two history, and he had read extensively on pivotal battles such as the Battle of the Bulge, D Day, and the Battle for Stalingrad. He admires the efforts of the 100th/442 Regimental Combat Team, which was made up of volunteer Japanese-American citizens and earned distinction as American military history’s most decorated unit.