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Thomas Romano is a Managing Director of McConnell, Budd & Romano, Inc., an investment banking firm specializing in the financial services industry, Highlander Capital Group (HCG), a full service broker/dealer, and Highlander Capital Management, LLC, an SEC registered investment advisory firm based in Parsippany, New Jersey. He has over 30 years of investment, financial analysis and management experience. He began his career with Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., where he was a senior vice president supervising the firm's domestic ''Bankwatch'' group. This service provided credit risk ratings on financial institutions, and advised mainly Fortune 500 companies and governmental agencies on the credit and operational risks associated with their banking relationships. In 1992, Mr. Romano and several associates established MB&R, which operated as a FINRA member broker/dealer and investment banking firm specializing in community banks and thrifts. Tom established and ran the firm's equity research function, which published sell side research reports and recommendations on individual companies and topics of general industry interest. In 2004, he moved to the firm's corporate finance group, where he now advises bank and thrift clients. He graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University with a B.A. in Accounting