Jim Pursiano
Managing Director, Focus, LLC

Jim Pursiano, a FOCUS Managing Director in the San Francisco Bay Area region of California, has 20 years of international M&A experience. His primary focus has been from a corporate perspective with senior management roles at Chevron Corporation and Applied Materials.

Mr. Pursiano was a Managing Director in Applied Materials’ Corporate Business Development Group from 1999 - 2008. He joined Applied Materials to help build the firm's Corporate Development and M&A capabilities. While at Applied, he closed over 40 deals in the areas of enabling technology, hardware, software both for process equipment and manufacturing execution systems, services, and energy solutions. Mr. Pursiano has also closed numerous minority investments, joint ventures, joint development and licensing arrangements. His deal sizes ranged from $10 million to $2B+, and were located in Israel, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, Taiwan, China, and Singapore.

From 2005 to 2008, Mr. Pursiano led the Integration Management Office at Applied where he had responsibility to integrate all acquired companies into Applied. These activities included integrating a worldwide service company, a software product group, a Japanese company “bunkatsu,” and two solar companies located in Europe. His primary focus in the integration role was to ensure that all Board of Directors’ commitments were met and the acquired businesses integrated to the extent required to leverage business activities and results.

Prior to Applied Materials, Mr. Pursiano spent 11 years at Chevron. Mr. Pursiano had numerous roles in Chevron’s finance organization and Upstream operations including property divestitures. His career at Chevron was mostly spent in Chevron Chemical’s International Business Development Group. In this role, Mr. Pursiano was a part of the team developing a new $750 million world-scale petrochemical project in Saudi Arabia with the Saudi Industrial Venture Capital Group, a venture group in Saudi comprised of the leading business leaders in the Kingdom. His role was to handle all the economic valuation and project financing activities where over $500 million were placed with an international loan syndicate and the Saudi Industrial Development Fund. Mr. Pursiano also explored M&A and other development opportunities in Venezuela, Mexico, Singapore, and other Middle Eastern Companies, as well as numerous chemical divestitures in oilfield chemicals and consumer products.

Mr. Pursiano earned an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago. He previously earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

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