Our Senior Team
Our Managing Directors and Senior Advisors are supported by the collective strength of our integrated global team comprised of 1,450 professionals working seamlessly across 23 locations worldwide.
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Richard Chou
Managing DirectorHong Kong
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 an International Bachelor of Business Administration from the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. He is a CFA charterholder.
Jared Dermont
Managing DirectorNew York
Jared Dermont is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in M&A, Capital Structure Advisory, and Capital Markets. Jared has over 30 years of investment banking experience advising companies, equity investors, financial vehicles, creditors, and government entities across a broad range of industries and geographies. Jared has extensive financial engineering and special situations experience.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Jared was a Managing Director at Rothschild Inc., where he focused on global M&A and restructuring transactions. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University.
Michael DiYanni
Managing DirectorHead of Risk AdvisoryNew York
Michael DiYanni is a Managing Director and Head of Risk Advisory at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in Financial Institutions. Since joining the Firm, he has been instrumental in the execution of numerous market-leading assignments in the sector, advising clients across the spectrum of M&A, debt and equity financings, and restructuring assignments. Mike has worked in the investment banking industry for more than 25 years.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Mike spent a decade in the fixed income trading business both at J.P. Morgan and Citigroup in New York and London. Mike holds a B.A. in Economics from Yale University and an M.S. in Finance and Economics from The London School of Economics.
Robert Glauerdt
Managing DirectorLondon
Robert Glauerdt is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he is part of the Global Financial Institutions Group. He advises alternative and traditional asset management, wealth management, fund and pension administration, securities, specialty finance, and financial technology companies in EMEA and Asia-Pacific on strategic and corporate finance matters, including M&A and initial public offerings (IPOs). Robert has more than 20 years of investment banking experience in Europe and the U.S.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Robert was a Partner and Managing Director at Berkshire Global Advisers. Before that, he worked in the Global Financial Institutions Group at UBS Investment Bank in London and New York, advising asset management clients and private banks on corporate finance and M&A transactions. Robert holds a bachelor’s degree and an M.B.A. in finance and economics from Passau University, along with a Master’s in International Finance and Business from Columbia University.
Rick Haythornthwaite
Advisory PartnerLondon
Rick Haythornthwaite is the Chairman of NatWest Bank, the AA, and a Senior Advisory Partner at Moelis & Company.
After a 19-year career in the oil & gas industry with BP and, latterly, Premier Oil, he joined the Blue Circle cement group in 1997 with responsibility for Europe & Asia before being promoted to Group Chief Executive in 1999. Following a successful hostile bid defence, performance turnaround, and sale of the company, he led the rescue of Invensys as CEO, one of the world’s leading industrial controls companies at the time.
He has since served as Chairman of Ocado, Mastercard Inc., Centrica, Network Rail, QiO Technologies, and Railsr, as well as a Partner at Star Capital. His past non-executive directorships include Cookson plc, Lafarge SA, Land Securities plc, ICI plc, and Globant. He has also chaired the U.K. Better Regulation Commission, the Risk & Regulatory Advisory Council, and the Haythornthwaite Review of U.K. Armed Forces incentivisation. In the not-for-profit sector, he has chaired the World Wide Web Foundation and, in the U.K., the Creative Industries Federation, Creative England, the Southbank Centre, and Almeida Theatre. Rick was educated at MIT and The Queen’s College, Oxford.
Paul Mann
Managing DirectorChicago
Paul Mann is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in specialty finance advisory. Paul has over 15 years of investment banking experience, providing strategic M&A and capital raising advisory services to a variety of financial institutions, including specialty finance companies, insurance companies, and mortgage originators and servicers.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Paul worked in the Financial Sponsors and Leveraged Finance Group at UBS Investment Bank. Paul holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
William Nook
Managing DirectorNew York
William Nook is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he focuses on advising global asset management, alternative asset management, and wealth management firms. Bill has over 25 years of investment banking experience.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Bill was a Managing Director and Head of Asset Management in the Americas Financial Institutions Group at Deutsche Bank. Previously, he was a member of the Global Financial Institutions Group at UBS. Bill holds a B.A. from Union College and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.
Caroline Silver
Senior AdvisorLondon
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 35 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 holding 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, Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., and the National Film & Television School. She also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Barratt Developments plc, as a member of the International Advisory Board at Adobe, Inc., and as 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.
Brian Tichenor
Managing DirectorNew York
Brian Tichenor is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company, where he specializes in advising clients in the financial institution, blockchain, and digital asset industries. Brian has over 15 years of investment banking experience, having executed a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions; public and private debt, equity, and hybrid capital raises; reinsurance; and restructurings and recapitalizations for corporate and government entities.
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.