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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 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.
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Rami Touma is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising a broad range of clients across the MENA region. Rami has over 20 years of investment banking experience and has advised sovereign, corporate and financial sponsor clients on a variety of strategic and financial transactions including IPOs, debt raisings, M&A transactions and restructurings.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Rami was the Head of Investment Banking Department at Credit Suisse in Qatar where he led the origination and execution of several complex cross-border M&A transactions and several multibillion dollar capital markets transactions.
Rami holds a B.Sc. in Accounting from the Lebanese American University and a M.Sc. in Accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also a CFA charter holder and a CPA in the State of Illinois.
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Stephen Trauber
Managing Director
Chairman and Global Head of Energy and Clean Technology
Houston
Stephen Trauber is a Managing Director and the Chairman and Global Head of Energy and Clean Technology at Moelis & Company. Steve has over 35 years of investment banking experience, having advised on more than $700 billion of energy transactions, including many of the sector’s most significant and transformative M&A and financing transactions. In addition to assembling more than 300 oil and natural gas transactions, he has also served as lead financier for many of the industry’s IPOs and equity and debt capital markets deals.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Steve was Vice Chairman and Global Co-Head of Natural Resources and Clean Energy Transition at Citi, where he was responsible for creating and building its Clean Energy Transition business. Prior to Citi, Steve was Vice Chairman and Global Head of Energy at UBS Investment Bank. He began his career with Credit Suisse and subsequently managed Morgan Stanley’s Energy Group in Houston.
Steve holds a B.A. in Economics and Managerial Studies from Rice University and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was an Austin Scholar. Steve currently serves on a number of corporate Boards of Directors, including Global Geophysical Services, Geophysical Technology Inc, Nabors Energy Transition Corp II, where he serves as Audit Chair, NXTClean Fuels, New Asean Energy and Odyssey Trust Company. He also serves as an Advisory Director for Aon, Element Resources, and Last Energy. In addition, Steve serves as Chairman of the Memorial Hermann Hospital Foundation and is on the Board of Directors for Theater Under the Stars and Performing Arts Houston and its Foundation. He is also on the Board of Advisors of the Jones Business School at Rice University.
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Brodie Treloar
Managing Director – MA Financial Group
Melbourne
Brodie is a Managing Director at MA Moelis Australia (the corporate advisory and equities division at MA Financial Group) with particular expertise advising clients in the consumer, agribusiness and general industrial sectors and extensive experience across public and private buy-side and sell-side processes, equity capital markets transactions and strategic advisory mandates. Brodie has over 20 years of investment banking experience.
Prior to joining MA Moelis Australia, Brodie worked for ABN AMRO/RBS as a Director in the Investment Banking Group.
Brodie holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Masters in International Relations from the London School of Economics (Honours).
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Yorick van Slingelandt
Managing Director
Head of EMEA & APAC
Co-Head of Europe
London
Yorick van Slingelandt is a Managing Director and Head of EMEA & APAC at Moelis & Company. He also serves as the Firm’s Co-Head of Europe. Yorick has nearly 30 years of investment banking experience having worked in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East and has significant expertise in leading cross-border M&A and capital markets transactions across a variety of industries, including infrastructure, transport, logistics, energy, aerospace, and telecommunications. Prior to joining Moelis & Company in 2011, Yorick was Managing Director at J.P. Morgan.
Yorick holds an engineering and business degree (Ingénieur Commercial et de Gestion) from Université Catholique de Louvain and a Masters in Management from the Community of European Management Schools. Yorick serves on the Board of Directors of Education for Employment.
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Ken Viellieu is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising publicly-held and private companies in the retail and consumer, industrial and transportation, real estate and leisure, financial and business services and healthcare sectors. Ken has been in the investment banking industry for over 30 years, with significant experience in a broad range of corporate finance matters including divestitures, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged finance and recapitalization transactions, public and private equity offerings and corporate restructurings.
Prior to Moelis & Company, Ken was Senior Managing Director and Head of Midwest Investment Banking at Bear Stearns and previously as a Managing Director and Head of the Chicago Office of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
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Kevin Voelte is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising clients in the upstream oil and gas sector and leads the Firm’s oil and gas Acquisitions & Divestitures (A&D) business. Kevin has extensive experience executing mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, capital markets and restructuring/recapitalization transactions primarily covering oil and gas exploration and production companies and financial sponsors.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Kevin was an upstream oil and gas banker in the Global Natural Resources Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Before that, he was Director of Government Relations at The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association in Washington D.C. where he represented industry on Capitol Hill covering energy, transportation, tax and labor issues.
Kevin holds a B.S., summa cum laude, in Finance from Wayne State College in Nebraska and an M.B.A. from Rice University. He is also a graduate of the Bryce Harlow Institute on Business and Government Affairs at Georgetown University.
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Craig Wadler is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in shareholder advisory and activist defense. Craig has more than 26 years of investment banking experience, providing strategic advice to corporations faced with activist investors and other contested shareholder related matters.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, he was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse and a founding member of the Hedge Fund Advisory business. Previously, Craig worked at UBS Investment Bank where he founded the Hedge Fund coverage business. He started his investment banking career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
Craig holds a B.S. from Indiana University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.
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Osamu Watanabe is General Counsel at Moelis & Company where he leads the Firm’s legal and compliance department.
Prior to Moelis & Company, Osamu was General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Sagent Advisors. Prior to that, he held senior positions at UBS, Credit Suisse First Boston and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Osamu started his career in private practice at Sullivan & Cromwell, working in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Melbourne. He also clerked for the Honorable Morey L. Sear, Eastern District of Louisiana.
Osamu holds a B.A. in History from Antioch College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
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Mark Webber is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he provides financial and strategic advice to clients in the life sciences industry, with a focus on the medical devices sector. He has extensive investment banking experience, with expertise in advising strategics and financial sponsors on a broad range of mandates including M&A and a variety of other corporate finance matters.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Mark held several roles in the financial services industry, including transaction advisory positions at PwC and EY. He holds a degree in Accountancy from Rhodes University in South Africa and an M.B.A. from the London Business School.
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Angus Whelchel
Managing Director
Head of Private Capital Markets
New York
Angus Whelchel is a Managing Director and Head of Private Capital Markets at Moelis & Company, focusing on the Firm’s public and private market origination and distribution capabilities. Angus has more than 20 years of investment banking experience working with clients across all industries and has helped raise over $200bn of private capital globally across debt and equity.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Angus served as Global Head of Private Capital Markets in New York and Head of Private Capital Markets for EMEA in London at Barclays. Earlier in his career, Angus held positions in the Private Placement market at Lehman Brothers and GE Capital.
Angus holds a B.A. in Finance from the University of Vermont and an M.B.A from the College of William and Mary. He is also a CFA charterholder.
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Ben is a Managing Director at MA Moelis Australia (the corporate advisory and equities division at MA Financial Group) where he is Head of Technology and covers the technology sector advising clients on a broad spectrum of transactions involving equity capital markets and M&A. Ben has been with MA Moelis Australia since it was established and has over 20 years experience in investment banking and accounting.
Prior to joining MA Moelis Australia, he was previously in the investment banking team at J.P. Morgan and prior to that at PwC. Ben holds a Bachelor of Commerce from University of New South Wales.
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Raymond Wu is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising technology clients with a focus on software. He has nearly 20 years of investment banking experience with expertise across mergers and acquisitions and capital raising transactions.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Raymond was a Managing Director of Tech Investment Banking at SVB Securities. Before that, he worked at UBS where he specialized in advising education technology clients. Previously, he held investment banking and investing roles at Stifel Financial Corp, BMO Capital Markets and Battery Ventures. He started his career in the Software, Services & Media group at Broadview International (acquired by Jefferies).
Raymond holds an A.B. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University.
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Chris Wyke is Joint Chief Executive Officer of MA Financial Group and was one of the founders of the company in 2009. Chris has extensive restructuring, M&A and equity and debt capital markets experience.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Chris worked in investment banking for J.P. Morgan and UBS in London, Singapore and Sydney where he originated and executed a wide range of domestic and international transactions. Chris holds a Bachelor of Economics with Honours from University College London.
