The well-known tech stock analyst Dan Ives has left Wedbush, where he led tech research efforts and turned into one of the most familiar faces on Wall Street through his consistently bullish company coverage.

Ives is leaving the firm after eight years, Wedbush said in a press release on Wednesday afternoon. The "transition will mark the next phase of growth for the firm's technology research and investment banking franchise," the firm, which is privately held, said.

Ives has held multiple roles outside of his position as a senior research analyst. This past January, Barron's reported on his broad and overlapping interests across the tech industry. Ives has served as the face of two Wedbush exchange-traded funds, an adviser to a publicly traded marketing-tech company, and, at the time of the article, as chairman of a separate tech company. At the time of the article, the roles weren't regularly disclosed in his research reports and potentially created conflicts of interest, according to Wall Street experts.

In an interview with CNBC on Wednesday, Ives said he was leaving to start "a merchant bank aimed at combining research, advisory, capital raising and investing."

-- Angela Palumbo contributed to this article.

Write to Rebecca Ungarino at rebecca.ungarino@barrons.com

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