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Tuti Bodin is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where she advises clients in the financial technology and financial institutions sectors. She has nearly 20 years of investment banking experience, advising corporates, sponsors, creditors and sovereigns across Europe and globally on a broad range of mergers and acquisitions, debt restructurings, equity raises and strategic advisory transactions.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Tuti held roles in the Financial Institutions Groups at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citi. She started her career as a Financial Controller at Iron Mountain Inc. in France. Tuti holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Bilkent University and a Master’s Degree in International Financial Management from IAE Aix-en-Provence.
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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 Real Estate, and his experience spans across M&A, IPOs, listed equity raisings, wholesale capital raising, debt and strategic advisory. Ben has over 20 years of investment banking experience.
Prior to joining MA Moelis Australia, he was Managing Director and Head of Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging for Bank of America Merrill Lynch Australia. Prior to that, Ben worked at UBS and Citi in Australia. Ben holds a Bachelor of Commerce (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Science from the University of New South Wales.
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Bruno Brandao is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he provides strategic and financial advice to healthcare clients. Bruno has extensive investment banking experience, having originated and executed M&A and other financial transactions for corporates and financial sponsors across life science tools, services and diagnostics.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Bruno was part of the Healthcare Investment Banking group at Morgan Stanley. Before his investment banking career, Bruno worked as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. Bruno holds an M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Instituto Superior Técnico and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
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Marcel Brouwer is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in Capital Structure Advisory across EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Marcel has over 15 years of investment banking experience, advising companies, sponsors and a variety of creditor groups on restructurings, recapitalizations, financings, M&A and other financial advisory transactions across a broad range of industries.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Marcel was a member of the Restructuring Advisory and Distressed Financing team in Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division. He began his career at Lazard in the Financial Advisory Group. Marcel holds an M.B.A. from HEC Paris and a M.Sc. in Business Administration (Finance & Investments) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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Jeremy Burke is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in advising clients across the consumer, real estate, gaming, hospitality, and leisure sectors. Jeremy has extensive investment banking experience advising both corporates and financial sponsors on a wide range of mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, and restructurings, as well as debt and equity capital raises.
Since joining Moelis & Company, Jeremy has been based in the Firm’s London and New York offices. He has executed transactions across the US and internationally, including numerous cross-border deals involving stakeholders in Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. Jeremy holds a B.S. in Business from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
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James Burnes is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he specializes in advising clients across the healthcare sector with a focus on biotech and life sciences. Jaime has nearly 25 years of investment banking experience, executing M&A and capital raising mandates for healthcare companies and financial sponsors.
Prior to joining Moelis, Jaime was a Managing Director at Cantor Fitzgerald and previously the Co-Head of Healthcare Investment Banking at Cowen Group. Earlier in his career, he held roles in the healthcare groups at Oppenheimer, Credit Suisse, Lehman Brothers and UBS. Jaime holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the Parents Council at the University of Miami and a former member of the Board of Trustees at the Branson School in Ross, CA.
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Alex Burpee is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in advising clients in the energy sector. Alex has over 15 years of oil and gas industry experience, specializing in originating and executing mandates for a variety of companies in the sector.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Alex was a Senior Managing Director at Guggenheim, where he co-led the Upstream Oil and Gas team in the Energy Investment Banking group. Before that, he was a Director in the Global Energy Group at Citi, where he helped to lead the technical team and originate new business. Alex began his banking career at Jefferies and previously worked in upstream exploration and production at both Hess and Schlumberger. Alex holds an M.S. from the Pennsylvania State University and a B.A. from Washington and Lee University.
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Nick Caffarate is a Senior Advisor at Moelis & Company where he focuses on identifying and enhancing the Firm’s opportunities in the emerging markets, primarily working with the Moelis & Company Capital Structure Advisory team globally. He has over 15 years of global emerging markets experience, specializing in corporate debt and working with borrowers, shareholders, creditors, advisory firms, fund managers and investment banks.
Before Moelis & Company, Nick was a Portfolio Manager in the EM Corporate Credit team at Ashmore Group PLC, where he also served as Senior In-house Counsel between 2005 and 2014. He started his career as a project finance lawyer at Norton Rose Fulbright in London.
Nick has led and managed the restructuring processes for numerous distressed corporate bonds in emerging markets globally and has broad experience of the global corporate US$ bond market, in particular within Latin America. He has also negotiated and invested in various private credit deals for a range of corporates globally. He holds an LLB in Law from Exeter University, the Legal Practice Course (LPC) from Nottingham Trent University and the Claritas Certificate from the CFA Institute.
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Chris Callesano is a Managing Director, Principal Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller at Moelis & Company. Chris has over 20 years of finance and accounting experience, primarily within the financial services industry.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, he was Senior Managing Director of Financial Reporting and Policy at NASDAQ OMX where he was responsible for preparing the annual and quarterly financial statements filed with the SEC. Before that, Chris was the Director of Corporate Reporting Merrill Lynch and began his career as an auditor at Ernst & Young. Chris holds a B.S. in Accounting from Penn State University, an M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business at New York University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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Eric Cantor is Vice Chairman and Managing Director at Moelis & Company and serves as a member of its board of directors. He advises clients on issues spanning the intersection of public policy and industry. Eric, who has more than 30 years of political and business experience, was formerly United States Representative from Virginia from 2000-2014. During his time in Congress, he served in leadership positions for 12 years, and was elected U.S. House Majority Leader in 2010, during which he led the public policy and legislative agendas. One of his many accomplishments as Majority Leader was the passage of the JOBS Act, which makes it easier for start-up and emerging growth companies to access capital. Eric is regularly featured in publications focusing on a wide range of topics including both domestic and international matters.
Eric holds a B.A. from The George Washington University, a J.D. from The College of William and Mary, and an M.A. from Columbia University. He co-authored the New York Times best-selling book, “Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders”. Eric serves as a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Executive Council on Infrastructure and has been named a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He served on the U.S. Department of Defense Policy Board, a group tasked with providing the Secretary of Defense with independent, informed advice and opinion concerning matters of defense policy, from 2017-2020.
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Thane W. Carlston
Managing Director
Chairman of Capital Structure Advisory
New York
Thane Carlston is a Managing Director and Chairman of Capital Structure Advisory at Moelis & Company. As a co-founder of the Group, Thane helped establish one of the world’s leading capital structure and debt restructuring teams, which has completed more than 750 transactions globally representing over $1.5 trillion in value.
Thane has worked in the investment banking industry for over 35 years, with a specialized focus on capital structure advisory. He has extensive expertise in the distressed advisory sector working with companies, corporate boards, creditor groups, sponsors, and corporate parents of troubled subsidiaries. Thane has structured and led numerous out-of-court transactions utilizing exchange offers, consent solicitations, and negotiations with lenders to secure bank amendments and waivers. His experience also includes distressed M&A, debt financing and advising on matters that involve pre-packaged, pre-arranged and unplanned Chapter 11 reorganizations.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Thane co-headed the Recapitalization & Restructuring Group at Jefferies. He holds an M.B.A. from UCLA Anderson School of Management and earned a B.A. from the University of Utah, where he serves on the advisory board for the Eccles School of Business.
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Bob Casey is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he provides financial and strategic advice to clients in the enterprise software sector. In his nearly 30 years of experience in the technology industry, Bob has built extensive relationships with industry leaders and financial sponsors. He has advised on a broad range of mandates including M&A, debt financing and equity capital markets transactions across the application and infrastructure software sectors.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Bob was a Senior Managing Director at SVB Securities. He previously held leadership roles as Co-Head of Software Investment Banking at UBS and Head of Software Investment Banking at Suntrust Robinson Humphrey. Bob also held roles in technology and software investment banking at Sagent Advisors, Wachovia Securities and Broadview International. He began his career as a strategy consultant advising telecommunications clients at Dean & Company. Bob holds a B.S. in Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.B.A. from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Amy Chen is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where she leads the Firm’s healthcare technology franchise. Amy has extensive investment banking experience with a focus on M&A and capital markets advisory in healthcare IT and services.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, she was an investment banker at Citigroup in the Global Financial Institutions Group. In 2022, Amy was named among the Rising Stars of Wall Street by Business Insider. She graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. from Harvard University and holds a M. Fin. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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Yatin Choksey
Managing Director
Chief Information Security Officer
New York
Yatin Choksey is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Moelis & Company, where he leads the Firm’s global information security strategy and program. He is responsible for establishing and maintaining global information security controls and protection of Moelis’ information assets and technologies.
Yatin has 30 years of IT experience, with over 20 years of experience in developing and implementing cybersecurity protocols and programs for a broad range of global corporations, including in the financial, legal, and manufacturing industries. Prior to joining Moelis & Company, he served as the Enterprise Security Manager at Shearman & Sterling LLP. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Shivaji University.
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Richard Chou is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in advising clients across Asia on mergers and acquisitions and transactions involving financial institutions.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Richard worked in the Principal Investments division at Forum Equity Capital and in the Global Energy & Power Group at TD Securities. Richard holds a B.B.A. in International Business and Finance from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and an iBBA in Finance & Accounting from Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. He is a CFA charterholder.
