Bio

Mr. Bloom has worked on Wall Street for more than 25 years as a Managing Director and Head of Corporate Finance for a number of boutique investment banks. He has originated and executed numerous M&A transactions, private placements, and IPO’s. He is a senior adviser to many Boards of Directors, CEO’s, institutional funds, and high net worth individuals. Mr. Bloom has also founded a profitable financial service business with his Wall Street partners, which was later sold to a group of hedge funds. Mr. Bloom was Adjunct Professor of Management and Finance at the NYU Stern School of Management and has also taught at Peking University in Beijing. During the financial crisis, he was a close adviser to Congress regarding bank regulation. An interview with Bloom was recently featured on Forbes.com. Mr. Bloom graduated with honors from Harvard College in 1979, and he received his M.B.A. from the prestigious MIT Sloan School of Management, where he studied directly with Nobel Laureates Fisher Black, Robert Merton, Paul Samuelson, and Robert Solow.