Mr. Malcolm is the President and Chief Executive Officer for Cowen and Company. Prior to joining the firm in 1996, Mr. Malcolm was a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns. Mr. Malcolm also served as a Managing Partner of Anthem Partners, L.P., an advisory investment banking boutique. Prior to that, Mr. Malcolm was a Managing Director of The First Boston Corporation where he founded and ran the High Yield Finance Group.

Mr. Malcolm received a B.A. with honors from Wesleyan University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Mr. Conner is Chief Financial Officer of Cowen and Company. Mr. Conner is responsible for all of Cowen’s financial management and control matters, including regulatory reporting. He joined Cowen & Company in 1992 as Division Financial Officer for the firm’s investment banking activities. Prior to joining Cowen, Mr. Conner worked for TLP Leasing Programs in Boston, where he managed the accounting operations of 15 public and 15 private limited partnerships. Additionally, from 1987 to 1989, Mr. Conner worked for Atlantic Capital Corporation. He began his career at Deloitte Haskins & Sells in 1983.

Mr. Conner holds a B.B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Mr. Dibble is Head of Human Resources of Cowen and Company. Mr. Dibble joined Cowen in 2004, with more than 20 years of human resources experience within the financial services industry. Most recently, Mr. Dibble was Head of Human Resources for Nomura Securities. Prior to that, Mr. Dibble held a variety of human resources roles at First Boston, Marsh & McLennan, and Merrill Lynch, focusing on benefits, compensation, performance management, employee relations, training and development, succession planning, and recruiting.

Mr. Dibble earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Seton Hall University.

Mr. Egert is Chief Compliance Officer of Cowen and Company. He manages the Cowen Compliance Department based in New York and serves on various management committees. Prior to joining Cowen's Legal and Compliance Department in January 2005, Mr. Egert was Legal & Compliance Director for RBC Capital Markets Corporation, a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Canada, from 2003 to January 2005. Prior to RBC, he was Chief Legal Officer of ABN AMRO Inc., the U.S. broker-dealer affiliate of Dutch bank, ABN AMRO from 1997 to 2003. Mr. Egert also was associated with the law firms of Shearman & Sterling from 1987 to 1992 and Kavanagh Peters from 1992 to 1994 and was Senior Vice President and Associate Counsel at the Securities Industry Association from 1994 to 1997.

Mr. Egert serves as an FINRA Arbitrator, sits on a number of SIA industry committees, and regularly speaks at securities industry conferences. He has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of Wall Street Lawyer and other publications.

Mr. Egert received his law degree cum laude from George Washington University School of Law in 1987.

Mr. McCarthy is General Counsel of Cowen and Company. As General Counsel, he heads Cowen’s Legal and Compliance Department based in New York, and is a member of the Office of the Chief Executive. As such, Mr. McCarthy is responsible for all legal and regulatory issues involving the firm. Prior to joining Cowen in December 2006, Mr. McCarthy was a partner in WilmerHale’s Litigation and Securities Departments. Mr. McCarthy joined WilmerHale in 2004 from Credit Suisse, where he was the Global Head of Litigation. He began his career at Willkie, Farr & Gallagher.

Mr. McCarthy received his law degree from Albany Law School of Union University and his undergraduate degree from Siena College.

Mr. White is Chief of Staff and Chief Administrative Officer of Cowen and Company. Mr. White is responsible for developing and executing strategic initiatives and works directly with the CEO on all special projects and other matters. As Chief Administrative Officer, Mr. White oversees the Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Risk and Communications groups. Previously, Mr. White was a member of SG Capital Partners, the Merchant Banking Division of Cowen, which he joined in 2003. Prior to joining the Merchant Banking Division, Mr. White was a member of the Equity Capital Markets Group of Cowen where he covered the technology and consumer sectors. Prior to this, Mr. White worked at Salomon Smith Barney in the Equity Capital Markets Group. In addition, Mr. White has seven years experience as a practicing securities and M&A lawyer at Brown Rudnick Freed & Gesmer and Lord Day & Lord, Barrett Smith.

Mr. White holds a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.A. from Amherst College.