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Board Member
MICHAEL RICHTER
Managing Director | Lazard Freres & Co., LLC
Michael Richter is a Managing Director and Head of the Aerospace & Defense Investment Banking group. With more than 23 years of investment banking experience, he primarily focuses on companies in the defense, commercial aerospace, & homeland security sectors. Michael has managed more than 200 investment banking transactions, totaling more than $20 billion in transaction value, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPOs , as well as public and private placement of debt. He is often quoted by the press on a wide range of topics related to homeland security and defense technology, and is a regular speaker at industry forums, including
the National Space Symposium where he recently spoke on the future of America's space program.
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Previously, Michael was President of Jefferies Quarterdeck, the Aerospace & Defense Group of Jefferies & Company, Inc. Michael also sat on the firm's Investment Banking Operating Committee. Prior to Jefferies Quarterdeck he was a Managing Director and head of CIBC World Markets' Aerospace & Defense Investment Banking Group and also served as the Head of their San Francisco office.
After working for IBM's mainframe computer division in San Francisco, he worked in the technology investment banking groups of Kidder, Peabody, & Co. in New York and Montgomery Securities in San Francisco, where he was Managing Director and Group head.
Mr. Richter earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University.