Adam Sokoloff
Global Head of Financial Sponsors Group, Jefferies & Co. Inc.
Adam Sokoloff is managing director of investment banking and global head of the financial sponsors group at Jefferies & Co. Inc., responsible for relationships with traditional financial sponsors and leveraged buyout firms, hedge funds, alternative investment funds and financial entrepreneurs. Since joining the firm in 2002, Sokoloff has helped build the investment banking department from about 100 bankers in the U.S. to more than 700 globally. A 25-year veteran of investment banking, Sokoloff has been a managing director at Bear, Stearns & Co., a vice president at Drexel Burnham Lambert and a financial analyst at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Sokoloff has completed more than 250 transactions totaling in excess of $50 billion. He is involved in several charitable organizations and serves on the board of the Educational Alliance serving New York's Lower East Side. Sokoloff holds a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.