Bio

Mr. Hoffman is a retired Senior Managing Director of Legg Mason Wood Walker Inc., a financial services and brokerage firm. Prior to joining Legg Mason, Mr. Hoffman was Chairman of The Middle Market Group, an investment bank affiliated with Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc., specializing in merger, acquisition and divestiture activities and the placement of debt and equity to the private markets. Mr. Hoffman was a Managing Director of Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. where he founded and was responsible for the firm's middle market investment banking group. Mr. Hoffman was also a founder and general partner of Financo Investors Fund L.P., a private equity fund, that provided equity financing to emerging companies in the retail, consumer products and health care fields, such as Intelligent Electronics and Salton Maxim. Prior to entering the investment banking field in 1976, Mr. Hoffman spent over 20 years in a variety of business and executive disciplines. He is currently Vice Chairman and a Director of Almo Corporation; a Director of Computer Corporation of America Inc., S.R. Smith, LLC, Numoda Inc., Cogniscape LLC and nCourt LLC and serves on the Advisory Board of Ironwood Manufacturing Fund I and II, and LLR Fund I. Mr. Hoffman received a BA from Pennsylvania State University in 1957.