First Albany competitors

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Company	Founding date	Zippia score	Headquarters	# of Locations	Revenue	Employees
First Albany	1953	4.0	Albany, NY	1	$6.8M	50
Wedbush Securities	1955	4.9	Los Angeles, CA	1	$280.2M	1,000
Wunderlich Securities	1996	4.9	Memphis, TN	1	$146.8M	350
Sterne Agee & Leach Inc	1901	4.2	Birmingham, AL	1	$24.0M	50
Knight Capital Funding	2013	4.7	Dover, DE	1	$38.0M	175
Capstone Partners	-	4.0	Dallas, TX	1	$4.0M	198
Cowen	1918	4.9	New York, NY	22	$1.6B	1,534
Piper Jaffray	1895	4.8	Minneapolis, MN	14	$1.5B	1,500
Advantage Capital	1992	3.8	New Orleans, LA	1	$120,000	20
Alex Brown	1800	4.2	Baltimore, MD	1	$57.0M	2,680
ICON Investments	1985	3.9	New York, NY	1	$1.4M	50
Dominick & Dominick	-	4.0	Memphis, TN	1	$350,000	5
Ryan Beck & Co.	1947	4.1	Florham Park, NJ	1	$9.4M	66
Cantor Fitzgerald	1945	4.8	New York, NY	25	$3.6B	12,000
Private Wealth Management	-	3.9	Memphis, TN	1	$490,000	50
Investments & Wealth Institute	1985	4.4	Greenwood Village, CO	1	$5.5M	61
WR Hambrecht + Co	1998	3.6	San Francisco, CA	1	$1.5M	100
Spear Leeds & Kellogg Specialists LLC	1996	3.6	New York, NY	1	$1.8M	5
Eastern National Bank	1969	4.0	Miami, FL	1	$10.0M	78
Ziegler Capital Management	1991	3.5	Chicago, IL	1	$5.3M	67
Daiwa Capital Markets America Holdings Inc.	1990	4.5	New York, NY	3	$56.0M	575

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First Albany salaries vs competitors

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Company	Average salary	Hourly salary	Salary score
First Albany	$72,610	$34.91	-

Compare First Albany job title salaries vs competitors

Company	Highest salary	Hourly salary
First Albany	$91,296	$43.89
Cowen	$97,017	$46.64
Sterne Agee & Leach Inc	$92,028	$44.24
Capstone Partners	$91,774	$44.12
Spear Leeds & Kellogg Specialists LLC	$91,460	$43.97
Knight Capital Funding	$91,422	$43.95
Wunderlich Securities	$89,031	$42.80
Ziegler Capital Management	$88,796	$42.69
Alex Brown	$88,109	$42.36
Private Wealth Management	$85,365	$41.04
Advantage Capital	$84,596	$40.67
Cantor Fitzgerald	$82,472	$39.65
Ryan Beck & Co.	$82,249	$39.54
Investments & Wealth Institute	$78,134	$37.56
Wedbush Securities	$77,818	$37.41
WR Hambrecht + Co	$77,255	$37.14
Dominick & Dominick	$75,293	$36.20
Eastern National Bank	$75,084	$36.10
ICON Investments	$74,494	$35.81
Daiwa Capital Markets America Holdings Inc.	$73,865	$35.51

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First Albany demographics vs competitors

Compare gender at First Albany vs competitors

Job title	Male	Female
Piper Jaffray	56%	44%
Cowen	58%	42%
Wedbush Securities	65%	35%
Cantor Fitzgerald	70%	30%
Ziegler Capital Management	77%	23%
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Company	White	Hispanic or Latino	Black or African American	Asian	Unknown	Diversity score
Piper Jaffray	67%	12%	8%	10%	3%	9.8
Cantor Fitzgerald	58%	17%	11%	10%	4%	9.7
Cowen	59%	17%	11%	10%	4%	9.9
Wedbush Securities	47%	23%	7%	18%	5%	9.7
Ziegler Capital Management	67%	10%	12%	8%	2%	5.4

First Albany and similar companies CEOs

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Chad Abraham

Piper Jaffray

Chad Abraham serves as the chief executive officer of Piper Jaffray and is a member of the firm's board of directors. Abraham joined the firm in 1991 as an investment banking analyst. He spent the next 13 years on the West Coast as a banker in the company's technology investment banking group. He was promoted to managing director and head of technology investment banking in 1999. In 2005, Abraham was promoted to head of capital markets and in 2010, he became the global co-head of investment banking and capital markets. Under the leadership of Abraham and co-head Scott LaRue, the firm's investment banking division grew revenues from approximately $150 million to more than $500 million. They established coverage in energy and financial services, expanded debt capital markets capabilities and added key offices and personnel. Abraham serves on the board of trustees of the Nature Conservancy’s Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota chapter and the board of trustees of The Blake School. He graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science.

Howard W. Lutnick

Cantor Fitzgerald

Jeffrey M. Solomon

Cowen

Louis M. Ferreira

Eastern National Bank

Gary Wunderlich

Wunderlich Securities

Ben Plotkin

Ryan Beck & Co.

John Ferrara

Capstone Partners