The best technology companies stay private longer, and the market to buy and sell those positions is opaque, relationship-driven, and sensitive. Shareholders wait years for liquidity; institutions struggle to access the names they want to own.
We built Gondola to bring institutional rigor and genuine discretion to that market: curated demand, real pricing intelligence, and a named team accountable for every outcome. A partner who knows the market and protects your position in it.
Patrick Hughes is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Gondola, where he oversees business development, marketing, and sales. He brings deep expertise in private markets and alternative assets, most recently as President of Forge Trust, and previously leading PENSCO Trust Company through its acquisition to Opus Bank.
Andrew Benson is the Founder & Executive Chairman at Gondola. He serves as Chief Executive Officer at Hill.com, a retail pre-IPO trading platform and marketplace, and previously co-founded River.com, a Bitcoin financial institution with $2B AUM, where as Chief Operating Officer he led capital markets, product, operations, and finance.
We protect reputation, pricing, and long-term relationships over any single deal.
Sensitive positions demand confidentiality. We move quietly and share only where it belongs.
A live view of where deals actually clear lets us advise with conviction, not guesswork.
A focused network of counterparties: every introduction deliberate, every side vetted.
Gondola Markets is a subsidiary of Hill Technologies, whose broker-dealer Hill Securities LLC (Member FINRA/SIPC) executes our transactions. That means the discretion of a boutique with the compliance backbone and regulatory standing of an established institution.
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