Company: COHN
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-035625
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Company: Cohen & Co Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 87
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2006 to November 2007, Mr. Pooler also served as Senior Vice President of Finance of Cohen & Company, LLC. From November 2007 to March 2009, Mr. Pooler also served as Chief Financial Officer of Muni Funding Company of America, LLC, a Company managed company investing in middle-market non-profit organizations. Prior to joining Cohen & Company, LLC, from 1999 to 2005, Mr. Pooler held key management positions at Pegasus Communications Corporation (now known as The Pegasus Companies, Inc. (OTC: PEGX)), which operated in the direct broadcast satellite television and broadcast television station segments. While at Pegasus, Mr. Pooler held various positions including Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer, and Senior Vice President of Finance. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Pooler held various management positions with MEDIQ, Incorporated, including Corporate Controller, Director of Operations, and Director of Sales Support. Mr. Pooler holds a B.A. from Ursinus College, an M.B.A. from Drexel University, and was a Certified Public Accountant in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (license lapsed). No executive officer was selected as a result of any arrangement or understanding between the executive officer or any other person. All executive officers are appointed annually by, and serve at the discretion of, our Board of Directors.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS The Company has identified the following related party transactions since January 1, 2024. Unless indicated otherwise, all dollar amounts (except share and per share data) in the section below are in thousands. Each of the transactions below were approved or ratified in accordance with our policies regarding related party transactions, which are described in greater details below. A. JKD Investor JKD Capital Partners I LTD (“JKD Investor”) is identified as a related party because it is owned by Jack J. DiMaio, Jr., the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, and his spouse. On October 3, 2016, Cohen & Company, LLC entered into an Investment Agreement (the “JKD Investment Agreement”) with JKD Investor, pursuant to which JKD Investor agreed to invest into Cohen & Company, LLC up to $12,000, of which $6,000 was invested into Cohen & Company, LLC on October 3, 2016, an additional $1,000 was invested into Cohen & Company, LLC on January