Cathay Capital has appointed Ricky Roman as a Vice President in the firm’s North American Private Equity team in New York.Reporting to Mark Woods, Partner and Head of North American Private Equity, Roman will be an integral part of the New York team, helping North American companies grow in their home markets and globalise by expanding their reach into China and Europe.
Prior to his masters, Roman was a Senior Associate at Wexford Capital LP, an opportunistic fund manager focused on direct middle-market private equity and public equity investments. While at Wexford, he closed a number of platform and growth equity investments, and he worked closely with management teams to help implement value creation initiatives while working across the consumer, energy, and real estate sectors. Before joining Wexford, he was an investment banking analyst with Citigroup Global Markets in New York.
Roman has also spent time actively operating private equity portfolio companies in the consumer and healthcare industries.
Roman earned a Bachelor of Business Administration at the Stephen M Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and a Masters of Business Administration, at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
