Executive Biographies

Robert Schoenthal
Senior Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Schoenthal began his career at L.F. Rothschild and moved up through the ranks of the fixed-income department to become Rothschild's co-chief executive officer. Throughout his career at Rothschild, Mr. Schoenthal was involved in a variety of aspects of fixed-income and equity securities, including investment banking, trading and sales, and research. From 1988 to 1990, Mr. Schoenthal was president of Michael Swerdlow Co., a real estate development company purchased by a group of investors, including Triarc Corp. and American Express. In 1991, he joined with Mr. Miller to form Citation Financial Group, which was the initial predecessor of Miller Tabak Roberts Securities, LLC.

Joel E. Miller
Senior Managing Director / Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Miller started his career at Arthur Andersen & Co. and was promoted to audit partner in 1974. From 1974 to 1977, Mr. Miller lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he ran Andersen's Latin American Capital Markets practice. He later became the head of that firm's worldwide capital markets practice. In 1987, Mr. Miller was recruited to join L.F. Rothschild as chief financial officer. In 1991, he joined with Mr. Schoenthal to form Citation Financial Group, which was the initial predecessor of Miller Tabak Roberts Securities, LLC.

Management Team

Christopher J. Ankner
Managing Director, High Yield Sales / Head of MTR Dealer Desk
After serving for six years in the United States Navy, Mr. Ankner began his career in finance in 1986 and cultivated his skills as a high yield bond trader at Mabon Securities and later at Ryan, Beck and Co. In 1992, Mr. Ankner joined MTR's predecessor Citation Financial Group as a senior high yield salesperson, and he was appointed managing director in 1999.

Michael Bowman
Managing Director / Head of High Yield Department
Mr. Bowman began his professional career on Wall Street in 1993. First working as a high yield analyst for the Merrion Group, Mr. Bowman was recruited by MTR in 1994 and has since developed extensive expertise in the distressed securities market. Mr. Bowman was appointed managing director in 1999; he serves as head of the high yield department.

Matthew Dundon
Managing Director / Head of Research Department
Mr. Dundon has been a senior analyst (specializing in distressed debt and high yield media and telecom issuers) since joining MTR in 2003. He has led the firm's research effort since June 2006. Mr. Dundon began his securities industry career in 1998 with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, and immediately prior to joining MTR was a leveraged finance associate at Alston & Bird LLP.

Jose Maria Gordo
Director, Emerging Markets Sales / Branch Manager of Miami Office
Mr. Gordo's experience in the emerging markets sector spans more than seventeen years including various executive positions with Venezuela's Corp Banca NY Branch (formerly Banco Consolidado NY Branch). In 1995 he joined Cantor Fitzgerald where he played a principal role in establishing and managing its emerging markets Eurobond desk focusing on Latin America. In 2000, Mr. Gordo was brought on to manage MTR's Miami office, and he was appointed director in 2004.

Michael Keller
Director of Operations
After starting his career in 1995 with JB Hanauer and Co., Mr. Keller went on to hold several titles at Pershing Investments, including as manager of the preferred client and active trader groups. In 2001 he left Pershing to join Bear Stearns, where he was the senior vice president of relationship management, a position he held until 2005, when he became director of operations for MTR.

Jeremy Koster
Managing Director, Convertible Bond Sales & Trading
Prior to joining MTR, Mr. Koster spent several years at Gruntal & Co., where he served as a liaison between the Wall Street brokerage community and the institutional sales force, and he began trading convertible bonds trades in both institutional and retail markets. In 1995, Mr. Koster joined MTR's convertible bond desk; he was promoted to managing director in 2003 and currently serves as co-head of convertible trading.

Ilan Lessick
Chief Financial Officer / Director, Compliance, Credit & Counterparty Risk
After qualifying as a chartered accountant in South Africa, Mr. Lessick worked for a number of years in the internal audit division of Citibank, London. He subsequently joined Investec Bank Limited, where he spent over ten years working in their risk management division heading up their internal audit and operational risk areas, and later became risk director of their US subsidiary. Mr. Lessick, who is a director, was recruited by MTR in 2003 to oversee compliance and risk management. He was promoted to CFO in 2006.

Adam Margulies
Managing Director / Head of Convertible Department
Mr. Margulies' experience as a convertible bond expert extends back to 1993, when he began his career as a convertible trader for Mabon Securities. In 1995, Mr. Margulies was recruited by MTR to spearhead the firm's convertible bond desk, and he was appointed managing director in 1999. He continues to head the convertible bond department, and he also serves as co-head of trading.

Ignacio Martin-Duarte
Managing Director, Emerging Markets Sales / Branch Manager of Dallas Office
Mr. Duarte started his career at Banco Santander as a senior officer from 1993 until 1996. He then had a brief stint at UBS Warburg and subsequently was hired at ING Barings Securities in late 1996, where he served as director of high yield sales and vice president, specializing in emerging markets. In 2002, MTR welcomed him to the Dallas office, and he became managing director in 2005.

Adam Rosenblum
Managing Director, High Yield Trading
Mr. Rosenblum began his Wall Street career as a credit analyst for CIT Financial Services. In 1986, Mr. Rosenblum was recruited by Mabon Securities, where he was responsible for trading electric utility corporate bonds; three years later, he became a senior trader in the firm's high yield department. In 1993, Mr. Rosenblum joined MTR and established the firm's dealer desk operation. A specialist in trading telecommunications and energy issues, Mr. Rosenblum was appointed managing director in 1999.

John Rudd, CFA
Managing Director / Head of High Yield Sales
Mr. Rudd started his career in the bond department of Burns Fry, where he worked from 1984 until 1987. He then moved to RBC Dominion Securities, where he held various trading positions from 1988 to 1998, including spending the last four years of his tenure in New York as head of RBC's US Debt trading. He joined the sales desk at MTR in 1998 as a specialist in Canadian credits. Mr. Rudd is a CFA and a graduate of Queen's University in Canada. He was promoted to managing director in 2005.

Joseph Schinagle
Managing Director, High Yield Sales
With sixteen years of experience in high yield and distressed sales, Mr. Schinagle provides significant market insight and expertise for his hedge fund customers. Prior to joining MTR in 1996, he began his career in corporate planning at Chemical Bank in New York and then moved to Vasiliou & Company, Inc., first as a securities analyst and then in institutional sales, where he specialized in distressed and high yield debt. He has a BS in Economics and an MBA in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania; he was promoted to managing director in 2003.

Harry Wool, CFA
Managing Director / Head of Emerging Markets Department
Mr. Wool is a CFA charterholder and a fifteen-year veteran in trading emerging market debt. From 1986 to 1995, Mr. Wool was an executive with New York-based Gruntal & Co. In 1995, Mr. Wool was recruited by MTR to establish the firm's emerging markets desk, and he was appointed managing director in 1999.

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