Background
Woodman was born in 1929 to a Quaker family.
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Dean Woodman
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Education
In 1946, he graduated from the Moses Brown School and then Amherst College where he studied economics.
Career
After college, he served in the United States Naval Air Corps. In 1955, he worked in the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch including 16 years as director of West Coast corporate financing. In 1978, he co-founded investment bank Robertson Colman Stephens & Woodman and in 1982, he co-founded the investment bank Woodman, Kirkpatrick & Gilbreath where he brokered Pepsi"s purchase of Taco Bell.
In 1984, he served as managing director in the investment banking group of Hambrecht & Quist and in 1988, he served as Managing Director of the international investment bank International Netherlands Group Barings Limited Liability Company (and its predecessor Furman Selz).
In 1999, he left International Netherlands Group to work as a consultant specializing in financial assignments, private equity and debt placements, and mergers and acquisitions. As of May 2014, he owned 6.4% of GoPro stock.
In 2013, he donated $5 million to his alma mater, Moses Brown School to build a community and performing arts center at the school. He made the gift in honor of his Quaker family’s five-generation commitment to the school where his great-grandfather Augustine Jones served as a headmaster.
