Team Bios

Jeff Hooke

Jeff Hooke has more than 25 years experience in investment banking, private equity and corporate finance. He previously worked as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and Wertheim Schroder in New York, completing many mergers and acquisitions, IPO’s and private placements. He was a senior investment officer at the World Bank’s private sector division and an executive at the Emerging Markets Partnership, a $5 billion private equity group.

He is the author of three books on finance, valuation and investment. His valuation book, Security Analysis on Wall Street, is required reading for the CFA exam, and was called “a welcome successor to Graham and Dodd” by Barron’s, the national investment magazine.

Mr. Hooke holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a BS from the University of Pennsylvania.

Contact Mr. Hooke at jhooke@hookeassociates.com

Peter Gavian

Peter Gavian founded Corporate Finance of Washington in 1976. Previously, he was a venture capitalist and an international operations executive at Fortune 500 companies. He has completed numerous financing and M&A transactions.

A past President of the Washington Society of Investment Analysts and of the Washington Chapter of the American Society of Appraisers, he has published numerous articles on valuation and corporate management. He holds an MBA from Harvard and a BA from Yale.

Contact Mr. Gavian at pgavian@hookeassociates.com