Ira Cohen

Ira Cohen is a Co-founder of Updata Partners. He is also the Managing Partner, President and Co-founder of Updata Advisors. With 30 years of experience in the technology industry as a CFO, private equity investor and investment banker, he has advised on more than 200 M&A transactions and has extensive experience within the IT services and various software sectors. Prior to founding Updata, Ira was the CFO and Treasurer of CGA Computer, Inc. Tridex Corporation ,and Computer Magnetics, Inc. CGA was a public software and services company which he helped to take private in a management buyout in 1984. Prior to CGA, he guided Tridex and Computer Magnetics, publicly-traded components and systems manufacturers, through acquisitions, divestitures, financings and an IPO. Earlier, Ira held various operating roles at Quest Diagnostics. Ira is a CPA and received an M.S. with honors in Banking and Financial Services from Boston University and a B.S. in Accounting from City University's Herbert H. Lehman College in New York. He has completed Harvard Business School's Executive Education program for publicly-traded company Audit Committee Chairs.