Management
	Jeffrey Solomon
	Chief Executive Officer of Cowen and Company
	(212) 845-7917
	jeffrey.solomon@cowen.com
	Jeffrey Solomon is Chief Executive Officer of Cowen and Company, a Cowen Group company. Mr. Solomon is responsible for overseeing all of Cowen and Company’s businesses, including Investment Banking, Capital Markets, Sales & Trading, and Research. Previously, Mr. Solomon served as Cowen Group’s Chief Operating Officer and Head of Investment Banking at Cowen and Company. Mr. Solomon joined Ramius, now a Cowen Group company, when it was founded in 1994 and has been responsible for the development, management, and oversight of a number of the investment strategies currently employed by Ramius. From 1991 to 1994, Mr. Solomon was at Republic New York Securities Corporation, the brokerage affiliate of Republic National Bank, now part of the HSBC Group, where he was the firm's Chief Administrative Officer. Prior to Republic, Mr. Solomon was in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Shearson Lehman Brothers and was part of the internal corporate finance team that worked closely with senior management in evaluating the company's operations, capital usage and investment strategies, including the acquisition and disposition of corporate assets. Currently, Mr. Solomon is a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation. He is also on the board of directors of Hale & Hearty Soups, a New York-based restaurant chain, and NuGo Nutrition, the manufacturer of NuGo Nutrition Bars. Mr. Solomon graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988 with a B.A. in economics.