Executive Management
Carter Mack
President, JMP Group
Chairman, Investment Banking Management Committee
cmack@jmpg.com
Carter Mack is a co-founder of JMP Group and serves as its President. He is a member of the executive committee of JMP Group and serves on its board of directors. Additionally, he is Chairman of JMP Securities’ investment banking management committee. From the company’s inception in 1999 through 2010, Carter served as Director of Investment Banking at JMP Securities; and, from 2007 through 2010, he additionally served as Co-President of JMP Securities.
Carter was a member of the IPO Task Force that provided a series of recommendations on ways to improve the IPO market in a report to the U.S. Treasury Department in October 2011. These recommendations were incorporated into the JOBS Act, which was signed into law in April 2012.
Prior to founding JMP, Carter served as a Managing Director in the financial services investment banking group at Montgomery Securities, now Banc of America Securities, from 1996 to 1999. He previously spent five years in investment banking at Merrill Lynch, focused on financial institutions. During his career, Carter has been involved in corporate finance and merger and acquisition transactions totaling more than $100 billion in value.
Carter holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Mark Lehmann
President, JMP Securities
mlehmann@jmpsecurities.com
Mark Lehmann is President of JMP Securities. He is also a member of the executive committee of JMP Group and serves on its board of directors.
Prior to joining JMP in 2003, Mark served both as the Global Director of Institutional Sales and as the Global Director of Equity Research at Banc of America Securities after working as an institutional salesperson at the firm and its predecessor, Montgomery Securities, for 11 years.
Mark holds a JD from the New York University School of Law and an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois. He is also a certified public accountant.
Thomas Wright
Director of Equities
twright@jmpsecurities.com
Tom Wright is a Managing Director and is JMP Securities’ Director of Equities. In addition, he is a member of the executive committee of JMP Group.
Before joining JMP, Tom served as global head of trading at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. for eight years. During the ten prior years, he held a variety of leadership positions at Merrill Lynch & Co., most recently as head of European equity trading and salestrading and previously as head of U.S. equity trading and salestrading. Tom was also a vice president and Nasdaq salestrader at Goldman Sachs & Co. for eight years. He began his career at Merrill Lynch & Co. on the Nasdaq desk in 1983.
Tom received an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business and a BS in economics and finance from Boston College.
Research, Sales and Trading
Jeffrey Spurr
Director of Research
jspurr@jmpsecurities.com
Jeff Spurr is a Managing Director and is JMP Securities’ Director of Research.
Jeff previously served as JMP’s Director of Product Management, focused on the optimization of the firm’s equity research product, from 2007 through 2011 and as Director of Institutional Sales from 2005 through 2009. Prior to joining JMP, Jeff was in institutional equity sales at Morgan Stanley with coverage of major west coast accounts and was a Managing Director in institutional sales at NationsBanc Montgomery Securities. Beforehand, he was a portfolio manager at Reindeer Capital, L.P. and the general partner of The Steelhead Fund, L.P. Jeff’s earlier investment and financial advisory experience includes roles in the real estate investment banking group of Coldwell Banker Commercial, the acquisition and development arm of American Continental Properties, the mergers and acquisitions department of E.F. Hutton and the corporate sale/leaseback division of Integrated Resources.
Jeff holds an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College and a BA from the University of Vermont.
Charles Sweeney
Director of Sales and Trading
csweeney@jmpsecurities.com
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.
Administration
Raymond Jackson
Chief Financial Officer
rjackson@jmpg.com
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.
Walter Conroy
Chief Legal Officer
wconroy@jmpg.com
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.
Michael Hartig
Chief Information Officer
mhartig@jmpg.com
Mike Hartig is a Managing Director and is Chief Information 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.
Gil Mogavero
Chief Compliance Officer
gmogavero@jmpsecurities.com
Gil Mogavero is a Managing Director and is Chief Compliance Officer of JMP Securities.
Prior to joining JMP, Gil was Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer at Mitchum, Jones & Templeton, a San Francisco-based brokerage firm, with oversight of compliance and operations. Gil previously spent a year at Robertson Stephens as vice president of operations. From 1987 through 1996, Gil served as head of compliance and operations at Volpe, Welty & Company, where he established the firm’s brokerage operations, compliance procedures and communications infrastructure. Earlier in his career, Gil held compliance and operations positions at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Oppenheimer & Co., among other financial institutions.