Jon Dever is a Managing Director and is co-head of investment banking at JMP Securities. He also serves as head of financial services and real estate investment banking. In addition, Jon is a member of the executive committee of JMP Group.

Prior to joining JMP, Jon was a Managing Director in the investment banking division at Lehman Brothers, working with finance companies and depositories. Jon previously served as an Executive Director in the financial services group at UBS and spent eight years in investment banking at PaineWebber before its acquisition by UBS in 2000. During his career, he has worked with banks, thrifts and non-bank financial institutions, including mortgage lenders, consumer finance companies, commercial finance companies and specialty lenders such as business development companies and REITs.

Jon holds a BA from Georgetown University.

Gavin Slader is a Managing Director and is co-head of investment banking at JMP Securities. He also serves as head of mergers and acquisitions. In addition, Gavin is a member of the executive committee of JMP Group.

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.

Charlie Sweeney is a Managing Director and is Director of Sales and Trading.

Prior to joining JMP, Charlie served as Co-Head of U.S. Equity Trading at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., where he also had day-to-day trading responsibility for the financial sector. For the previous three years, Charlie was Head of Cash Equity Trading and Sales Trading at Susquehanna Financial Group, where he participated in the overhaul of the firm’s sales and trading infrastructure as part of a six-member management team. Beforehand, he spent two years at Deutsche Bank Securities, trading equities in the financial sector and overseeing all cash equity trading in his second year at the firm. From 1991 until 2007, Charlie worked in equity trading at Merrill Lynch & Co., holding a variety of managerial positions and completing his tenure there as a Managing Director and head of the healthcare and financial sectors, with day-to-day trading responsibility for the healthcare sector.

Charlie holds a BS in business from Penn State University.

James O’Day is a Managing Director and is Head of Institutional Sales.

Prior to joining JMP, James was a structured credit trader at CypressTree Investments.

James holds a BA from Northeastern University.

Walter Conroy is Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of JMP Group.

Prior to joining JMP, Walter was General Counsel at Sungevity, Inc., a solar power company, managing all aspects of the company’s legal affairs.  He previously served as Head of Legal for the global special situations group at SunEdison.  Before making the transition to industry, Walter was a Partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP, where his practice included a broad range of M&A, corporate and securities transactions.  He began his legal career at Chadbourne & Parke LLP concentrating on M&A and corporate finance.

Walter holds a JD from Fordham Law School and a BA from Cornell University.

Mike Hartig is a Managing Director and is Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer of JMP Group.

Prior to joining JMP, Mike was Senior Director of Information Technology at Vista Equity Partners, overseeing all IT operations. He was previously Director of West Coast Operations at EZE Castle Integration, a technology and consulting firm focused on the hedge fund industry, where he was responsible for the IT operations and technological growth of 70 financial services firms. Earlier in his career, Mike served as Chief Technology Officer of Seasons Capital Management. Mike is a U.S. Air Force veteran.

Ray Jackson is a Managing Director and is Chief Financial Officer of JMP Group.

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.

Adrienne Tam is a Managing Director and is Chief Compliance Officer of JMP Securities.

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.