James O’Day is a Managing Director and is Director of Equities at JMP Securities. James is a member of the firm’s executive committee.

James previously served as JMP’s head of institutional sales. Prior to joining JMP, James was a structured credit trader at CypressTree Investments.

James holds a BA from Northeastern University.

Gavin Slader is a Managing Director and is head of investment banking at JMP Securities. He also serves as head of mergers and acquisitions. Gavin is a member of the firm’s executive committee.

Prior to joining 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.

Brendan Byrne is a Managing Director and is head of institutional sales at JMP Securities.

Prior to joining JMP, Brendan worked in institutional sales at Credit Suisse Securities, SunTrust Robinson Humphry, and Vertical Research Partners.

Brendan holds an MBA from Bentley University’s McCallum Graduate School of Business and a BA from Harvard University, where he was a member of the men’s varsity baseball and ice hockey teams.

John Pitarresi is a Managing Director and is co-head of trading at JMP Securities.

Aidan Whitehead is a Managing Director and is co-head of trading at JMP Securities.

Prior to joining JMP, Aidan was head of listed trading at ThinkEquity partners. He has also served as a Director and position trader at SG Cowen Securities and a Principal and position trader at Robertson Stephens during his career.

Ray Jackson is Chief Financial Officer of JMP Securities and parent company JMP Group. He also serves as President of Harvest Capital Strategies.

Prior to joining JMP, Ray was corporate controller and an executive officer at Redwood Trust, a publicly traded mortgage REIT. He was previously a senior manager for three years with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the financial services and banking industry practice in San Francisco. He also spent five years with KPMG as a senior audit manager and audit manager in San Francisco and the UK and spent three years with Deloitte & Touche in the UK.

Ray holds a BS degree with honors from Loughborough University in England and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Devin Ryan is a Managing Director and equity research analyst covering investment banks, brokers, asset managers, and specialty lenders. As Director of Financial Technology Research, Devin stewards JMP Securities’ coverage of fintech companies that exist at the intersection of traditional finance and technological innovation. Additionally, Devin serves as Head of Business Development for JMP Securities, leveraging his industry expertise and longstanding relationships within the capital markets and financial technology sectors to help chart the future of the firm.

Prior to joining JMP Securities in 2013, Devin spent more than eight years in equity research at Sandler O’Neill & Partners, concluding his tenure there as a Managing Director and senior analyst while covering a range of companies in the capital markets industry with business lines spanning investment banking and securities trading, asset and wealth management, and retail and commercial banking. During his time at Sandler O’Neill, Devin was a three-time winner of the top spot in his sector in an annual ranking of all U.S. equity research analysts conducted by StarMine and published in The Financial Times. He began his Wall Street career in the institutional investor group at Citigroup Smith Barney.

Devin holds a BBA in management information systems from University of Notre Dame.