Company: COHN
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-035625
Chunk: 86

Company: Cohen & Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 86
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man also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of our French subsidiary, Cohen & Company Financial (Europe) S.A., an investment services provider authorized and regulated by the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority, and has served in such capacity since July 2021. Mr. Brafman served as the President of the Company and of Cohen & Company, LLC from June 3, 2013 until September 16, 2013. Prior to joining the Company and Cohen & Company, LLC, Mr. Brafman served as a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs & Co. from July 2001 until August 2012. During his tenure at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Brafman held various positions including: Leveraged Finance Sales; Chief Operating Officer of Global Credit and Mortgage Trading; and Head of High Yield and Distressed Trading. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Brafman served as a Managing Director at Credit Suisse First Boston from July 1994 until October 2000 where, over the course of his employment, he served as Head of High Yield Trading and as Head of Emerging Market and Sovereign Trading. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Brafman worked at Wasserstein Perella & Co. from March 1992 until July 1994, and at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. from September 1988 until March 1992. Mr. Brafman received a B.A. from Columbia University and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College. Daniel G. Cohen , age 55, has served as the Executive Chairman of the Company since May 24, 2022. See Proposal One — Election of Directors, “ Names of the Director Nominees and Biographical Information; Qualifications ” above for Mr. Cohen’s biographical information. Joseph W. Pooler, Jr. , age 59, has served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company since December 16, 2009, as Cohen & Company, LLC’s Chief Financial Officer since November 2007 and as its Chief Administrative Officer since May 2007. Mr. Pooler previously served as Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer of the Insurance SPAC from March 2018 until the Insurance SPAC Merger in October 2020 and as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Insurance SPAC II from July 2020 until the Insurance SPAC II Merger in February 2021. From July