Middle Market Musings
Middle Market Musings
Latest Episodes
Episode 87 John Ferrara, Capstone Partners
This one is as action-packed and varied in scene as a James Bond movie. John Ferrara is founder and CEO of Capstone Partners, the middle market investment bank. John’s story rolls through his upbringing in hardscrabble Brockton, MA ...
Episode 86 Rocky Pontikes, Mesirow Financial
Rocky is Senior Manager Director and Co-Head of Investment Banking at Mesirow, the Chicago-based employee-owned, diversified financial services firm. A Chicagoland native who survived Eastern stops for college at Penn and a first job at M...
Episode 85 Rick Horowitz, Chairman & CEO, RAF Equity
Rick Horowitz misses the off ramp and ends up on a podcast in the bad part of town. Rick is chairman and CEO of RAF Equity, a Philadelphia-based private equity fund formed as a family office in 1979. Rick has three singular stories ...
Episode 84 Peter Fader, The Wharton School & Theta Equity
Peter Fader is the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, as well as co-founder of Theta Equity, a next-generation data analytics firm. Much discussion about Customer Life...
Episode 83 Rit Amin, Regions Securities
Rit Amin is Executive Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets at Regions Securities, the investment banking arm of Regions Bank. Rit has overseen the firm’s entry into capital markets, as well as the acquisition of BlackArch Partner...