Citizens JMP offers investment banking expertise across six industries—technology, healthcare, financial services, real estate, consumer, and industrials.
Our success depends on our ability to evaluate and structure transactions that create long-term shareholder value, and a successful transaction requires us to draw on all of our strengths: exceptional client focus, in-depth industry knowledge, and skilled execution. We are especially proud of our tendency to build lasting relationships with our clients, playing a true advisory role and working on multiple transactions over time.
Our capital raising capabilities include public and private capital markets transactions, including equity, debt, and convertible securities offerings. We also offer a broad range of strategic advisory services, such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory, divestitures, recapitalizations, and valuations and fairness opinions. In addition, we provide restructuring services, including liability management, debt restructuring, sourcing of new debt and equity capital, asset sales, reorganizations, and distressed M&A.
Head of Investment Banking Gavin Slader is a Managing Director and is head of investment banking at Citizens JMP. Prior to joining Citizens JMP, Gavin was a senior banker in the technology, media and telecommunications investment banking group at UBS Investment Bank, sharing oversight of the west coast technology mergers and acquisitions practice. Gavin previously held investment banking roles at Piper Jaffray & Co., Credit Suisse First Boston, and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, concentrating on mergers and acquisitions throughout. He began his Wall Street career in Deutsche Bank’s leveraged finance group. Gavin holds a BA from Claremont McKenna College, graduating with dual degrees in economics and accounting.
Head of Real Estate Investment Banking Ryan Abbe is a Managing Director and is head of real estate investment banking at Citizens JMP. Ryan rejoined Citizens JMP in early 2022, following two years at UBS, where he was a Managing Director in the real estate investment banking group. Ryan spent the previous 16 years at Citizens JMP, working with equity REITs, property technology and real estate services companies, homebuilders, and land developers. He began his career at Piper Jaffray as a member of the financial institutions investment banking group. Ryan holds a BA in economics from Macalester College.
Head of Healthcare Investment Banking David Kellman is a Managing Director and is head of healthcare investment banking at Citizens JMP. David has over 20 years of experience investing in and advising healthcare and life sciences companies. Since joining Citizens JMP, David has executed over 100 advisory and capital markets transactions. Prior to joining Citizens JMP, David was a Vice President at Paramount BioSciences, a life sciences investment firm. Previously, he was a hedge fund analyst at S.A.C. Capital Advisors focused on healthcare investing and a member of the healthcare investment banking group at Piper Jaffray. David began his career in the healthcare group of Investor Growth Capital, the venture capital arm of Investor AB. David holds a BS in finance from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a BSE in bioengineering from its School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Head of Financial Services Investment Banking Jeffrey Kung is a Managing Director and is head of financial services investment banking at Citizens JMP. Jeffrey previously served in a senior capital markets and leveraged finance role at Citizens Capital Markets, providing debt financing solutions to corporate clients and financial sponsors focused on communications, media, and consumer retail. Prior to joining Citizens, Jeffrey worked in a treasury capacity at Level 3 Communications and in corporate finance at Wells Fargo Securities. He began his career as an engineer at IBM. Jeffrey holds an MBA in finance and accounting from Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management and a BS in electrical engineering and history from Duke University.
Head of Technology Investment Banking Kevin McClelland is a Managing Director and is head of technology investment banking at Citizens JMP. Prior to joining Citizens JMP, Kevin was Principal at Broadview International, a technology-focused M&A advisory firm, where he led the firm’s west coast infrastructure software practice, concentrating on buy-side and sell-side transactions, divestitures, private placements, and strategic advisory assignments. Kevin previously worked for Andersen Consulting, now Accenture, designing and implementing custom and off-the-shelf software applications. Kevin holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and a BA from Wheaton College.
Head of Equity Capital Markets Andy Mertz is a Managing Director and head of equity capital markets at Citizens JMP. Prior to joining Citizens JMP, Andy was a Managing Director in equity capital markets at Cowen and Company, where he oversaw equity financing activity in the technology and healthcare verticals and, earlier in his career, served as head of equity syndicate. He previously held equity capital markets positions at Robertson Stephens and Bear, Stearns & Co. Andy holds an MBA from Fordham University and a BBA from Pace University.Gavin Slader
gslader@jmpsecurities.com
Ryan Abbe
rabbe@jmpsecurities.com
David Kellman
dkellman@jmpsecurities.com
Jeffrey Kung
jeffrey.f.kung@citizensbank.com
Kevin McClelland
kmcclelland@jmpsecurities.com
Andrew Mertz
amertz@jmpsecurities.com