Director
Co-Head of Alternative Energy Group
josh.epstein@cowen.com

Mr. Epstein serves as Head of Cowen’s Digital Media and Emerging Technology practice and Co-Head of Alternative Energy Banking. His coverage extends across a broad range of clean technology sectors with a focus on IP intensive and consumer/utility facing technologies. Mr. Epstein joined Cowen and Company in July 1996 and has the longest continuous tenure in Cowen’s Investment Banking Group. Over the course of his career, Mr. Epstein has provided financing and strategic advisory services to a wide range of technology companies with a primary focus in the Electronics sector and additional transaction expertise in the Software, Internet, IT Services and Telecommunications areas.

Mr. Epstein received a B.A. in Economics and Literature from Yeshiva University.

Director
Co-Head of Alternative Energy Group
peter.petitt@cowen.com

Mr. Petitt serves as head of semiconductor banking and co-head of alternative energy banking. His coverage extends across the semiconductor and solar sectors, as well as related and emerging clean technologies. Prior to joining Cowen in 2004, Mr. Petitt was a Vice President with SoundView Technology Group, where he covered companies in the semiconductor manufacturing industry. From 1999 through 2002, Mr. Petitt worked in Robertson Stephens' Technology Investment Banking Group in San Francisco and in London, where he most recently covered semiconductor companies throughout Europe. He also worked in the M&A practice of Chase Securities Inc in New York from 1994 to 1997.

Mr. Petitt received his B.A. from Colorado College and his M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.