Episode 86: Rocky Pontikes, Mesirow - Two Decades of Growth at Mesirow and the Evolution of Middle Market M&A

Rocky is Senior Manager Director and Co-Head of Investment Banking at Mesirow, the Chicago-based employee-owned, diversified financial services firm. A Chicagoland native who survived Eastern stops for college at Penn and a first job at Merrill Lynch, Rocky has been at Mesirow since 2001. He has charted and contributed to the firm’s emergence as a significant force in middle market M&A. On the personal side, Rocky talks about his youthful athletic prowess, something he shares ...