ADAM BERGMAN

Director

Wells Fargo CleanTech Banking

Adam Bergman is a head of Wells Fargo’s AgTech and FoodTech Investment Banking practice.  He has over 20 years’ experience in investment banking, including over 18 years working with growth companies and more than 15 years covering the broad CleanTech sector.  Wells Fargo is the largest commercial banking lender to the production Ag sector and one of the largest lenders to the broad food & Ag sectors.  During the past three years, Adam has been connecting food & Ag executives with FoodTech & AgTech executives and investors as means to create an ecosystem to help drive adoption of technology and innovation throughout the broad food & Ag value chain.

As one of the first investment bankers to focus on the CleanTech sector, Adam is considered one of the leading subject matter experts, having transaction experience in the agricultural & food technology, biomaterials, energy efficiency, energy storage, IIoT, mobility, renewable energy, smart grid and water technology sectors.  During the past 20 years, he has worked for leading global investment banks, including Deutsche Bank, Jefferies, JPMorgan, Rothschild, UBS and Wells Fargo, and has covered the CleanTech, Technology, Industrial and Healthcare sectors.  Adam has completed over 40 domestic and international financings valued at over $12 billion and over 25 domestic and cross border M&A, restructuring and strategic advisors assignments valued at over $25 billion. 

Adam has a B.A. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.  Additionally, he holds an M.A. in International Development from the International University of Japan. Adam lives in San Francisco, California with his wife and two children.