Joseph A. Jolson co-founded JMP Group in 1999 and is our chief executive officer, the chairman of the board of directors and a member of our executive committee. Mr. Jolson is also the chief executive officer of JMP Asset Management and is a portfolio manager of Harvest Opportunity Partners II, L.P. Additionally, he is chief executive officer of JMP Realty Trust, a real estate investment trust managed by an affilite of JMP Asset Management. Previously, Mr. Jolson was a senior managing director and senior research analyst at Montgomery Securities, now Banc of America Securities, for 15 years. Prior to that, he was a consulting research analyst at Fidelity Management and Research in Boston in 1983 and 1984 and at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in New York from 1980 through 1982. Mr. Jolson was named to Institutional Investor magazine's All-America Research Team for 10 consecutive years, between 1986 and 1995, for his coverage of the savings and loan industry and was also selected as an All-Star Analyst by the Wall Street Journal in the financial services category in 1996 and 1997. In addition, he was ranked as a top-five thrift analyst every year from 1985 through 1994 by Greenwich Associates. Mr. Jolson received an MBA degree with distinction from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA degree from Yale University.
Craig R. Johnson
Director & President
Craig R. Johnson joined JMP Group in January 2002 and is our president and a member of our executive committee. Mr. Johnson also serves as a member of our board of directors. He previously served as president of JMP Securities, from January 2002 until January 2007. Mr. Johnson was a founding member of Saw Island Asset Advisors, LLC, an alternative investment firm specializing in hedge fund investments which was acquired by JMP Asset Management in January 2003. Prior to founding Saw Island Asset Advisors, Mr. Johnson spent 20 years, from 1980 through 2000, at Montgomery Securities, now Banc of America Securities, most recently as director of global institutional sales and a member of the firm's executive committee. Mr. Johnson serves on the board of directors of Corticon Technology, a rules-based enterprise software platform for decision management. Mr. Johnson received a BA degree from Stanford University.
Mark L. Lehmann
Director & Co-President, JMP Securities
Mark L. Lehmann joined JMP Group in October 2003 and is director of equities and co-president of JMP Securities and a member of our executive committee. Mr. Lehmann also serves as a member of our board of directors. Previously, Mr. Lehmann was a managing director at U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, where he initiated and managed the firm's middle-market sales effort. He previously served as both the global director of institutional sales and the global director of equity research at Banc of America Securities after serving as an institutional salesperson at the firm and its predecessor, Montgomery Securities, for 10 years. Mr. Lehmann was also a founding partner of Baypoint Trading, a provider of trading execution services to investment managers. Mr. Lehmann received a JD degree from the New York University School of Law and a BA degree from the University of Illinois. He is a certified public accountant.
Carter D. Mack
Director & Co-President, JMP Securities
Carter D. Mack, a co-founder of JMP Group, is director of investment banking and co-president of JMP Securities and is a member of our executive committee. Mr. Mack also serves as a member of our board of directors. Prior to co-founding JMP Group, Mr. Mack was a managing director in the financial services group at Montgomery Securities, now Banc of America Securities, where he focused on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions for finance companies, depository institutions and other financial intermediaries. Mr. Mack also worked with financial institutions in the investment banking group at Merrill Lynch for five years. He previously worked in corporate finance at Security Pacific Corp. and in strategic planning at Union Bank of California. Mr. Mack received an MBA degree from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Thomas B. Kilian
Chief Financial Officer
Thomas B. Kilian joined JMP Group in April 1999 and is our chief financial officer and a managing director. In 1998 and 1999, Mr. Kilian worked in the investment banking group at Montgomery Securities, now Banc of America Securities, focusing on corporate finance matters for financial services clients. From 1992 until 1996, Mr. Kilian served as an assistant vice president in Deutsche Bank's corporate development group in Frankfurt, Germany, engaged in strategic planning and business development. Mr. Kilian holds an MBA degree from Stanford University and a masters degree in industrial engineering from Karlsruhe University in Germany.
Harris S. Barton
Independent Director
Harris Barton serves as a member of the board of directors of JMP Group. Mr Barton is managing partner of HRJ Capital, a manager of private equity and hedge funds of funds. HRJ Capital develops and markets investment strategies centered on buyouts, venture capital, hedge investments, real estate and special situations. Mr. Barton co-founded HRJ Capital in 1999 after concluding a 10-year professional football career with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League.
Kenneth M. Karmin
Independent Director
Kenneth Karmin serves as a member of the board of directors of JMP Group. Mr. Karmin is a principal of High Street Holdings, a diversified investment company, and is chief executive officer of Ortho Mattress Inc. From 1993 to 1998, Mr. Karmin served as a managing director at Credit Agricole Futures, SNC in London. He was also managing director of the financial futures and options department in the London offices of Rodman & Renshaw, Inc. prior to the acquisition of the firm's U.K. branch by Credit Agricole. Mr. Karmin previously worked at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. in its institutional financial futures division.
Peter T. Paul
Independent Director
Peter T. Paul serves as a member of the board of directors of JMP Group. Mr. Paul is the president of Paul Financial, LLC, a mortgage banking company he founded in 2003, and is the owner and chairman of Grove Street Winery. Previously, Mr. Paul was chief executive officer of Headlands Mortgage Company, a residential mortgage banking firm which he founded in 1986, took public in 1998 and merged with Greenpoint Financial Corporation in 1999. Following the merger, Mr. Paul served as vice chairman of Greenpoint Financial, as president and chief executive officer of Greenpoint Mortgage and subsequently as president and chief executive officer of Greenpoint Credit. Mr. Paul resigned from the board of directors of Greenpoint Financial in July 2003. Mr. Paul is chairman of the board of directors of JMP Realty Trust, chairman of the board of directors of Sequoia National Bank and chairman of the board of directors of the Headlands Foundation, a non-profit organization he founded in 1996.
Edward J. Sebastian
Independent Director
Edward J. Sebastian serves as a member of the board of directors of JMP Group. Mr. Sebastian is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of SMR Group LLC, a private equity investment firm located in Newport Beach, California. He is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Resource Bancshares Mortgage Group, a residential mortgage company headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina, founded by Mr. Sebastian as a division of Republic National Bank in May 1989. Resource Bancshares Mortgage Group went public in 1993 and merged with NetBank, Inc. in March 2002. Previously, Mr. Sebastian was vice chairman of Bankers Trust of South Carolina and corporate executive vice president of NCNB Corporation, which are both now part of Bank of America. Mr. Sebastian is currently a member of the board of directors of the South Financial Group, a financial institution headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, and is active on the boards of advisors of various venture capital funds.
Glenn H. Tongue
Independent Director
Glenn H. Tongue serves as a member of the board of directors of JMP Group. Mr. Tongue has been a general partner and co-manager of T2 Partners Management since April 2004 and is the co-manager of three private investment partnerships: the Tilson Growth Fund, the Tilson Offshore Fund and the T2 Qualified Fund. Prior to joining T2 Partners, Mr. Tongue spent seventeen years working on Wall Street, most recently as an investment banker at UBS, where he was a managing director and head of acquisition finance. Previously, Mr. Tongue served as president of DLJdirect, a publicly traded online brokerage firm that was spun out of investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in 1999. Mr. Tongue oversaw both DLJdirect's IPO and its eventual sale. Additionally, Mr. Tongue was a managing director for ten years in the investment banking group at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Mr. Tongue serves on the board of All Souls School, an early childhood educational facility in New York, New York.
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