David Lessen, Ph.D. is a Managing Director of the Gleacher & Company’s Debt Capital Markets Origination Group. Dr. Lessen has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services industry and has focused on convertible bond and equity derivative origination, structured finance and corporate risk management. Prior to joining Gleacher & Company, Dr. Lessen spent 9 years at UBS Investment Bank where he was a Managing Director in the Global Healthcare Investment Banking Group and responsible for leading the Group’s convertible bond and equity derivatives origination activities. During his tenure, UBS was consistently at or near the top of the league tables for book managed Healthcare convertible bond business while book running more than 55 significant convertible bond transactions. Prior to joining the Global Healthcare Group, he spent 2.5 years in the Equity Risk Management Group at UBS where he structured and executed a variety of equity derivative financing and hedging strategies for corporate clients. Prior to UBS, his experience includes marketing and structuring roles in equity, interest rate, foreign exchange and insurance related derivatives. Dr. Lessen earned BS and MEng degrees in Mechanical and Aero Space Engineering from Cornell University, a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University in 1992.