Mr. Gleacher is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gleacher & Company. Mr. Gleacher was Chairman of Gleacher Partners, which he founded in 1990. Mr. Gleacher founded the M&A department at Lehman Brothers in 1978 and headed global M&A at Morgan Stanley from 1985 to 1990. Mr. Gleacher is Chairman of the Institute for Sports Medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York and is also Chairman of the Ransome Scholarship Trust for St. Andrews University in St. Andrews, Scotland. Mr. Gleacher also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for Northwestern University. Mr. Gleacher received an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BA from Northwestern University and served as a U.S. Marine infantry officer in the 1960s.