
Daniel Ives
Managing Director, Global Head of Technology Research
AREA OF FOCUS
Technology
Software
AREA OF FOCUS
Technology
Software
ANALYST BIOGRAPHY
Daniel Ives is a Managing Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst covering the Technology sector at Wedbush Securities since 2018. He also serves as the Global Head of Technology Research at Wedbush. Dan has been a tech analyst on Wall Street for over two decades, covering software and the broader technology landscape. He began his career as a financial analyst at HBO before earning his MBA in Finance and becoming a globally recognized technology equity research analyst and Managing Director at FBR Capital Markets, where he spent 16 years focusing on enterprise software and hardware sectors—including cybersecurity, cloud computing, big data, and the mobile landscape. A major area of his current research is electric vehicles and disruptive technologies expected to shape the next decade.
Dan is a highly sought-after tech expert, regularly speaking at events across the U.S., Europe, Australia, and Asia. He frequently appears on television networks including CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, Fox News, BBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, France 24, Sky News, ABC Australia, and TV Tokyo, among others, to provide expert commentary on the technology sector. He has also appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, PBS NewsHour, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and The Daily Show. Dan can often be heard on tech-related radio segments for Bloomberg, ABC News, NPR, BBC, and other major outlets. His insights are regularly cited by global publications such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Investor’s Business Daily, Chicago Tribune, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The Telegraph, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Magazine, Le Monde, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, Daily Mail, South China Morning Post, Barron’s, The Times of London, Financial Times, Le Figaro, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The New York Times, among many others. In 2024, he was named the “Best Dressed Man on Wall Street” by the New York Post in a featured fashion profile.
He holds a B.S. in Finance from Penn State University and an MBA from the University of Maryland.
Twitter handle: @DivesTech.
ANALYST EDGE
Daniel’s Edge: What sets Daniel apart is his deep relationships with management teams in both the public and private sector developed throughout his decades-long career. He is very entrenched in the VC community and has hundreds of customers/IT product managers/CIOs who he regularly speaks with to maintain his finger on the pulse with regard to spending and secular themes in the field. He has become a valuable resource when it comes to understanding trends in consumer behavior and deciphering companies’ direction in tech and software development.
COMPANIES UNDER COVERAGE
- Apple, Inc. (AAPL)
- C3.ai (AI)
- Check Point Software Technologies Ltd (CHKP)
- CI&T Inc. (CINT)
- Consensus Cloud Solutions Inc. (CCSI)
- Cyberark Software Ltd (CYBR)
- DocuSign (DOCU)
- Electric Last Mile Solutions Inc (ELMS)
- Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (FFIE)
- Fortinet, Inc. (FTNT)
- General Motors Company (GM)
- Getaround, Inc. (GETR)
- Huron Consulting Group Inc. (HURN)
- Innodata Inc. (INOD)
- International Business Machines (IBM)
- Lithium Americas Corp (LAC)
- Lyft, Inc. (LYFT)
- Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)
- Nice LTD (NICE)
- Oklo Inc (OKLO)
- OneStream Inc. (OS)
- Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR)
- Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (PANW)
- Paymentus Holdings INC (PAY)
- Pegasystems, Inc. (PEGA)
- Planet Labs PBC (PL)
- Qualys, Inc. (QLYS)
- Rivian Automotive Inc (RIVN)
- Salesforce.com (CRM)
- SolarWinds Corp (SWI)
- SoundHound AI Inc (SOUN)
- Telos Corp. (TLS)
- Tenable Holdings, Inc. (TENB)
- Tesla (TSLA)
- The Metals Company Inc (TMC)
- Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER)
- Varonis Systems, Inc. (VRNS)
- Verint Systems, Inc. (VRNT)
- VinFast Auto Ltd (VFS)
- Willdan Group (WLDN)
- Xos Inc. (XOS)
- Zscaler Inc. (ZS)