Team Bios

The senior members of our capital markets team are:

Lawrence F. Goldman, CFA heads the Group. Mr. Goldman is responsible for overseeing all equity and debt capital markets activities of the firm as they relate to corporate and taxable customers. He has over 25 years of Wall Street experience. Prior to joining Ramirez & Co., Lawrence Goldman worked for 16 years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. He graduated Cum Laude in Economics from Yale University and received an MBA with distinction from NYU. He also holds the CFA designation.

Ray O'Connor for 18 years has worked in capital markets, corporate and project finance, credit analysis and structured derivatives and trading. Mr. O’Connor worked at J.P. Morgan Chase and its predecessor banks as a structured finance and derivatives professional responsible for the Global Energy business, specifically for delivering structured derivative and finance solutions to utilities and merchant energy industries. Most recently, Mr. O’Connor was at Blaylock & Partners where he originated and executed debt, equity and hybrid capital market transactions and was also responsible for a number of Structured Finance and advisory transactions with an emphasis on the Renewable Energy space.

Rick Viton recently joined Ramirez & Co. as a Senior Advisor for the Insurance Industry. Rick began his career at Dean Witter where he founded the Investment Banking Group focusing on the Insurance Industry. In 1997 Rick co-founded the Chicago Office as well as an Insurance Group for Dillon Read. Rick holds an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University as well as a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern.

Robert W. Hong is a senior member of the Capital Markets Group at Ramirez & Co. and he is responsible for FIG coverage. Prior to Ramirez, Mr. Hong worked at Citigroup in New York, where he was responsible for covering major corporate and financial institution issuers in the US and abroad, in all major currencies. As part of his tenure at Citigroup, Bob spent five years in Hong Kong, where he provided investment banking and capital markets coverage throughout the Asian region. Bob received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Williams College in Williamstown, MA and an MBA in finance from Wharton School of Business.