Who we are

Our team combines the investment banking and industry expertise to help our clients achieve their objectives. We bring decades of experience on Wall Street and in the security and defense industries, including senior roles at Lockheed Martin, IQT (formerly In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm), Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Thales North America (France’s largest defense/homeland security company).

History & Success

M&A & Capital Raising

We have conducted many M&A and capital raising transactions across the security and defense sectors, delivering strategic value to our clients.

Defense & Industry Leadership

Our partners have run divisions of major defense contractors, providing us with an unmatched ‘insider’ perspective on industry operations.

Venture Capital & Private Equity

We have extensive experience working on the buy-side for venture capital and private equity funds, identifying high-growth opportunities.

The Foundation

Founded by Scott Greiper in 2008, who launched Wall Street’s ﬁrst dedicated investment banking practice in the homeland security industry shortly after 9/11. Since then, SSG has been at the forefront of the industry’s most critical transactions.

More than “Just” Bankers — Industry Experts & Strategists

Client Feedback

As we continued to achieve signiﬁcant growth as a national end-to-end security systems integrator, we needed an expert M&A team that understood and could explain our unique value in the market… The SSG team delivered for us.

M&A Client

SSG is performing a valuable service for our national security and the ﬁrms they work with.

Gov. Thomas Ridge (Former Sec. DHS)

Those in homeland security should heed arguments from Greiper and his colleagues.

Forbes

SSG is a thought leader in the security industry.

Robert Cheﬁtz (Egis Capital Partners)

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