Mr. Mager has in excess of twenty-five years of transactional experience in general corporate finance, banking, and leveraged acquisition transactions. Prior to co-founding Cove Partners in 1996, Mr. Mager previously served as Senior Vice President of University Group, Inc., a publicly-held diversified financial services company, and as President and Chief Executive Officer of First Equity Group. In addition, Mr. Mager has served as a board member of privately-held companies, as well as both public and privately-held financial institutions with combined assets in excess of two billion dollars.

Mr. Shanno is an accomplished investment banking and corporate finance professional with extensive experience in venture capital, private equity and debt, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and public financing. Mr. Shanno’s transactional experience includes work on hundreds of corporate divestitures, acquisitions, capital formation and advisory assignments for a broad range of both public and privately-held clients.

Prior to joining Cove Partners, Mr. Shanno was most recently the Director of Mergers and Acquisitions for a leading consumer electronics company, and had previously been a Managing Director with Relative Group, LLC and a member of the investment banking teams of both H&R Block's M&A arm and Citigroup's middle market M&A division. Mr. Shanno holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Boston University and an MBA in Finance from Pepperdine University.

John B. Jackman, CFA
Managing Director
jjackman@covepartners.com

Mr. Jackman has substantial senior-level valuation experience, and specializes in the valuation of capital stock, minority and controlling interests, privately held interests, derivative securities, and intangible assets. He has performed numerous valuations across a broad range of industries in connection with mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, litigation support, tax, financial reporting, and estate and gift tax purposes, in addition to valuation work specifically for financial reporting requirements, including “Fresh Start Accounting”, and SFAS 141, SFAS 142, SFAS 144, and SFAS 123r requirements.

Prior to joining Cove Partners, Mr. Jackman was most recently with Navigant Capital Advisors, and had previously been associated with Kroll Zolfo Cooper, and Evans & Evans, Inc. of Calgary, Canada. Mr. Jackman graduated from California State University, San Marcos with a B.S. in Business Administration and subsequently earned a Master’s Degree in International Management from Thunderbird – The Garvin School of International Management, with a concentration in finance. John also attained the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2002, and is currently a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of San Diego.

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Randall J. Stein
Senior Vice President
rstein@covepartners.com

Mr. Stein has in excess of ten years of corporate finance experience as a result of his previous positions with Granite Financial Group where he was a Vice President, Investment Banking, and Direct Placement, Inc. where he was an Investment Banking Specialist. Mr.Stein has been responsible for originating approximately $400 million of equity financing transactions for public companies during the past five years. Mr.Stein attended the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

Mr. Sovcik has substantial corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions experience as a result of his previous position with Gerard Klauer Mattison in New York, where he was an Investment Banking Analyst. Prior to Gerard Klauer Mattison, Mr. Sovcik was an Associate Credit Analyst for US Bank in their Commercial Banking Division. Mr. Sovcik holds a BSBA in Finance from the University of Denver and a Masters of Science in Finance from San Diego State University.

Courtney Jerzyk
Analyst
cjerzyk@covepartners.com

Ms. Jerzyk is a recent graduate from the University of San Diego where she majored in Business Administration with an emphasis in finance, and received First Honors. Prior to joining Cove Partners LLC, Ms. Jerzyk worked on the New York Mercantile Exchange as a broker’s assistant in the COMEX division, as well as having worked in the marketing department of a book distribution company