Morton Cohen
Morton Cohen is the chairman and CEO of the Clarion Group. Mr. Cohen has over 10 years experience in the venture capital industry, and over 20 years experience in the securities industry both as an analyst and a mergers and acquisitions consultant. He joined Clarion in 1981 as chairman of what was then a closed-end mutual fund investing in public and privately held small companies through private placements. After becoming CEO and assuming sole management of the fund in 1982, he purchased the fund in 1987 and took it private in a leveraged buyout in 1989. Mr. Cohen is currently a member of the board of directors of Cohesant Technologies Inc., for which he also serves as chairman; DHB Capital Group Inc. and Zemex Corporation. Formerly, he was governor of the Montreal Stock Exchange (1972-73), a member of the board of governors of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies (1990-92) and a member of the boards of directors of Sanyo-Canada, Adac Laboratories, Abaxis Co. and Alexander Energy. A Chartered Financial Analyst, Mr. Cohen holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Economics from Concordia University in Montreal.