New York, USA - March 10, 2010, New York, USA - Rockfleet Financial Services, Inc. announced the opening of its New York office and naming of CEO and key senior executives.
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Michael Keane, Chief Operating Officer of New York office, has 30 years of municipal securities underwriting, trading, and sales experience. His diversified background, including marketing and risk management, provides the firm with strength across a variety of important strategic areas.
Mr. Keane has directed and coordinated the underwriting, sales, and marketing efforts on senior managed transactions, as well as significant co-managed appointments. Mr. Keane has developed his expertise at several firms, including Lighthouse Financial Group, LLC; Siebert Brandford Shank & Co., L..L.C.; Loop Capital Markets, L..L.C.; Prager, McCarthy & Sealy, LLC; and PaineWebber Incorporated.
Peter Rallis, Managing Director and Manager of Municipal Securities Trading, worked for Sovereign Securities Corporation LLC in its municipal securities division. Prior to that position, Mr. Rallis was employed by UBS Financial Services Inc. (formerly PaineWebber Incorporated) for 36 years.
Otto Boehm, Senior Vice President and the company's Senior Municipal Underwriter, is a 20-year veteran of the municipal bond industry. He started his career with Prudential Securities Incorporated in 1989 as a clerk, and later a supervisor, in its municipal bond operations department.
Mr. Boehm was later promoted to junior underwriter, then senior underwriter. He held that position following the merger with Wachovia Corporation. Mr. Boehm has underwritten numerous issues during his career.
Blount Edwards, Senior Vice President and Institutional Salesperson, has extensive experience in financial markets, having worked a combined 20 years in institutional sales and trading, private equity, investment management and capital-raising. Before joining Rockfleet, he managed investment portfolios at UBS Financial Services Inc.
Mr. Edwards also raised risk capital and managed several private equity investment management portfolios as principal. His institutional sales and trading experience includes CIBC World Markets Corp., Alex. Brown & Sons Incorporated, and Citicorp Securities, Inc.
Mr. Edwards began his career first at Signet Banking Corporation as an analyst and later at General Electric Capital Corporation as an associate.
Daniel Rudnitsky, Vice President and Institutional Salesperson, previously was a portfolio specialist at Bear Stearns Asset Management Inc., with a concentration on core and related strategies. Prior to that, he was a product manager with AllianceBernstein Investments, Inc. for taxable and tax-exempt fixed income, and was with institutional client servicing at Dreyfus Investment Advisors, Inc. ■