Senior Team

Senior Team

Caroline Silver
Senior Advisor
London

T: +44 207 634 3578

Caroline Silver is a Senior Advisor at Moelis & Company, having previously served as a Managing Director until 2020. Caroline has been in the investment banking industry for over 30 years, with extensive experience advising clients in the exchange and market infrastructure vertical as well as regulators.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Caroline was Vice Chairman of EMEA Investment Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Previously, she was Global Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley in addition to a number of senior positions including European Head of Financial Institutions and Head of Restructuring. Prior to that, Caroline worked at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell.

Caroline serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director on the boards of Tesco plc, BUPA and Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. and the National School of Film & Television. She also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Barratt Developments plc, is an International Advisory Board member at Adobe, Inc, and is a member of the Foundation of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Caroline started her career as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. She holds a B.A. in English with Spanish from Durham University.

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Joseph W. Simon
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 3837

Joe Simon is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he previously served as the Chief Financial Officer from 2010 to 2025. He has over 30 years of experience as a senior manager of financial controls, operations and strategy specializing in financial services firms.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Joe served as CFO at Financial Security Assurance, where he engineered the treasury and accounting areas to enhance the Firm’s financial planning and analysis, allocation of capital and transparency of financial reporting. He also led several financing transactions for the Firm. Joe holds a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and is a Certified Public Accountant.

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Olena Sokolowska
Managing Director
London

T: +44 0 207 634 3690

Olena Sokolowska is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where she specializes in advising clients in the fintech, data and information services sectors. She has extensive investment banking experience, with expertise advising clients across Financial and TMT sectors on corporate finance matters, including buy-side and sell-side transactions, capital raises and other equity and debt structures.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Olena was an Associate at Quayle Munro, now part of Houlihan Lokey’s Data and Analytics M&A group. She holds a B.S. in Economics and International Development from the University of Bath.

 

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Robert Sorrell
Managing Director
London

T: +44 207 634 3570

Robert Sorrell is a Managing Director and Head of European Financial Sponsor Advisory at Moelis & Company where he focuses on providing strategic advice to private equity funds and other financial investors across Europe. Robert has 28 years of investment banking and asset management experience.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Robert was a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Private Finance Group at Goldman Sachs and Founder / CIO of an independent asset management firm. Robert holds an M.A. from Cambridge University.

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Greg Starkins
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 4226

Greg Starkins is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising industrial companies across the aerospace and defense and multi-industry sectors. Greg has over 25 years of investment banking experience advising clients on mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions, as well as shareholder advisory and activist defense situations.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Greg led advisory efforts across the Diversified Industrials, Capital Goods and Services sectors, as well as for the Global Aerospace and Defense sector at Deutsche Bank. Before that, Greg was a member of the M&A team at Merrill Lynch and also coordinated Merrill’s Global Aerospace and Defense advisory practice. Greg began his career as a M&A lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. He holds a B.A. in Economics and Organizational Behavior/Management from Brown University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.

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Christopher Stefanovski
Managing Director – MA Financial Group
Sydney

T: +61 2 8288 5632

Chris is a Managing Director at MA Moelis Australia (the corporate advisory and equities division at MA Financial Group) where he focuses on business services, industrial services and private equity transactions and has over 15 years of experience in investment banking.

Prior to joining MA Moelis Australia, Chris was a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Group of Investec and previously a Partner and Head of Industrials for KPMG Corporate Finance. Chris holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Sydney University.

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Adam Steinberg
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 3580

Adam Steinberg is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he advises various parties in all manner of Capital Structure Advisory assignments. He has over 20 years of investment banking and asset management experience, including advising clients on M&A, financing, and restructuring transactions across a wide range of industries.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Adam worked at Lonestar Capital Management where he invested in work-out and special situations. Prior to that he was a Vice President in the Restructuring & Recapitalization group at Jefferies. Adam holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Michigan.

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J.T. Stephens
Managing Director
San Francisco

T: +1 415 462 0058

J.T. Stephens is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in advising technology clients with a focus on the commerce enablement, consumer internet, and marketing software sectors. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the industry, having advised boards and management teams on mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and public and private equity and debt financings.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, J.T. was a Senior Managing Director of Tech Investment Banking at SVB Securities and served as Managing Director and Head of Internet and Consumer Software, Americas at UBS. Previously, he was a member of the Technology Investment Banking teams at RBC Capital Markets and Robertson Stephens. Earlier in his career, J.T. held leadership roles at Six Apart, a content management platform that catered to SMBs and at Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK), an early pioneer in the eCommerce sector.  He  holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.B.A. in Finance, Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Lisa Strobel
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883-3891

Lisa Strobel is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where she is responsible for setting and executing the Firm’s strategy across client events, employee programming, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Lisa has over 20 years of experience in corporate operations, with significant expertise garnering client and employee engagement through marketing and events.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Lisa was Chief Administrative Officer at UBS Investment Bank where she was responsible for corporate operations and previously oversaw marketing and sponsorships for the Americas. She held similar roles at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Lisa holds a B.A. in Communications and Business Liberal Arts from Queens College. She serves as an advisory board member at Guide, an app-based platform focused on mental health, and as a member of the Board and Governance Committee at Akiba Yavneh Academy.

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Andrew Swift
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 5681

Andrew Swift is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in Capital Structure Advisory and M&A. Andrew has extensive investment banking experience advising corporates, acquirers and creditors across a broad range of industries and geographies. He has executed a variety of in-court and out-of-court restructuring transactions, with an emphasis on debtor-side engagements, exchange offers, consent solicitations, lender negotiations, distressed financings, and S. 363 sales.

Andrew has also advised public and private companies across a variety of complex M&A transactions, including cross-border hostile takeovers, activism defense, MoEs, and leveraged buyouts. Andrew started his career at Moelis and holds a B.A. in History with honors from the University of Michigan.

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Gabor Szabo
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 5624

Gabor Szabo is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he advises pharmaceutical and biotech clients. Gabor has more than 15 years of investment banking experience advising on transactions including public, private, and cross-border M&A, licensing/collaboration, restructuring, activist & takeover defense, and special committee assignments.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Gabor was a member of the New York-based Healthcare M&A team at Greenhill & Co. and of the London-based investment banking team at Morgan Stanley. Gabor holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD and graduated cum laude with a B.S. in Finance from Iona College where he was an All-American NCAA Division I water-polo player and three-event all-time record holder swimmer.

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Cyril Tabet
Managing Director
Dubai

T: +971 4 304 5023

Cyril Tabet is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising a broad range of clients in the Middle East. Cyril has over 15 years of investment banking experience, advising corporates, creditors and sovereigns across the U.S. and Middle East on a broad range of mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, refinancings, debt and equity capital markets and strategic advisory transactions.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Cyril worked at Jefferies & Company in New York in the Recapitalization and Restructuring group. Cyril was named one of “Rising Stars of Investment Banking” by Financial News in 2018. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University.

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Matthew Tehan
Managing Director – MA Financial Group
Sydney

T: +61 2 8288 5634

Matthew is a Managing Director at MA Moelis Australia (the corporate advisory and equities division at MA Financial Group) where he focuses on private capital markets across both debt and equity. Matthew has over 20 years investment banking experience in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australian markets.

Prior to joining MA Moelis Australia, he worked for Houlihan Lokey as a Managing Director and Credit Suisse as Co-Head of Debt & Derivatives. Matthew holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants ANZ.

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Brian Tichenor
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883-3825

Brian Tichenor is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in M&A Advisory across a broad range of industries and has experience executing public and private buy-side, sell-side and capital markets assignments.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Brian held roles in the Financial Institutions Group at Citi and in the Treasury Division at State Street Bank & Trust. Brian holds a B.S. in Business Management from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and an M.B.A. from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.

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Carl Torrillo
Managing Director
New York

T: +1 212 883 3622

Carl Torrillo is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising clients in the industrials sector. Carl has advised a wide range of industrial companies across the capital goods, diversified manufacturing, and fire, safety and security sectors, on a variety of corporate finance transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital raises, restructurings, recapitalizations and leveraged buyouts.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Carl held roles at Nomura in the Industrials Investment Banking Group and at Citi in the Global Industrials Group. He also co-founded and served as CFO of ACE Portal, which provided transaction management and marketing tools in support of private capital formation. Carl holds a B.S. from Cornell University.