Michael Lacovara

Michael Lacovara is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc., the holding company for Rodman & Renshaw, LLC, a full service investment bank and market leader in providing creative financing solutions to life science and other capital-intensive industries.  Prior to becoming Rodman’s CEO, Mr. Lacovara was a principal of Sandler O’Neill + Partners, L.P. from February 2004 through August 2007 and the co-chief operating officer of the firm from January 2005 through August 2007.  From October 1989 through December 1996, Mr. Lacovara was an associate at, and from January 1997 through January 2004 a member of, the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP, where he represented a variety of financial services and technology firms and served as trial counsel to Microsoft Corporation in United States v. Microsoft.  Mr. Lacovara received his bachelor’s degree in 1984, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society.  He was selected to study at Cambridge University on a Thouron Fellowship, receiving a master’s degree in international relations in 1985.  He also earned a law degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1988.  Mr. Lacovara serves on the Board of Directors of Analysis Group Economics, Inc., is a Trustee of Cambridge in America, and has served on various other charitable, cultural and educational boards.