Michael Cavallaro is the Founder and Managing Partner of MJC Partners, LLC, an independent investment banking firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, and capital advisory services for companies in the financial services industry. Prior to founding MJC Partners, Mr. Cavallaro served as a Director at FIG Partners and Vice President at Hovde Financial, where he established a successful track record in structuring, negotiating, and executing an extensive number of transactions over his 10+ years serving institutional clients. Since founding MJC Partners, Mr. Cavallaro has performed the highest number of capital raises through private placements of debt and equity instruments for banks in the Western U.S. under $1 billion in assets and continues to rank as one of the highest performing M&A advisors for financial institutions.

Mr. Cavallaro received a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Financial Economics from Bowling Green State University. A natural born entrepreneur, Mr. Cavallaro whole heartedly believes that a positive understanding of a clients’ needs will create relationships that lead to loyalty and support, a theme that has been demonstrated in MJC Partners’ track record since its founding in 2014. Mr. Cavallaro has long benefitted from a diverse skill set and a genuine interest in people that continues to build his widespread network of friendships and business partnerships.

Carlton Jenkins is the President of MJC Partners’ Financial Services division. In his capacity as President, he is able to leverage his successful track record as a former Bank Executive and Founder into the MJC Partners’ client service experience. Mr. Jenkins brings his first-hand knowledge of taking a bank through the merger and acquisition process, further providing clients with invaluable insight into the sales process. Mr. Jenkins provides oversight and ongoing strategic direction to the MJC Partners team of professionals focused on providing the highest level of service, best in class execution, and industry knowledge to the firm’s financial services clients.

Mr. Jenkins is recognized locally and nationally for his commitment to and successful history of looking creatively at ways to deploy capital, banking and financial products and services into Emerging Markets and Underserved Communities. Mr. Jenkins has been involved as a Founder or Co-Founder in 2 Minority Owned Banks, while also serving as Chairman, President and CEO of one of the most successful Minority Owned banks in the Country. He has helped raise and deploy Institutional Capital into Urban Markets as a Partner with one of the country’s most successful Private Equity Firms and has also provided diversity and urban market related advice and counsel to a number of Commercial Banks, Fortune 500 Companies and a number of GSE’s. His leadership as a board member and advisor has also has also been provided at the highest level to a number of both Corporate and Non-Profit organizations focused on issues such as entrepreneurship, job creation, capital formation, community economic development, and social services.

Mr. Jenkins experience, relationships and knowledge of the financial services landscape as well as other verticals gives MJC Partners a unique competitive advantage as it continues on its path towards building a family of professional client focused companies.

Prior to joining MJC Partners in February 2024, Mr. Corrigan was with Commerce Street Capital from 2017 as Head of the FIG Group. Before his most recent tenure at Commerce Street, he was with FBR Capital Markets, and has spent portions of his career at Stifel/KBW, Fox-Pitt Kelton and Citigroup, having started his investment banking career at Salomon Brothers Inc. In addition, he worked as a bank holding company examiner for the Denver branch of the Kansas City Federal Reserve District.

He is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, with a B.S. in Finance. Mr. Corrigan splits time between MJC’s Los Angeles headquarters and New York where he resides with his wife Jeannette. In his free time, he enjoys playing golf, skiing, cycling and platform tennis.

Robert Fellinger is a Managing Director on the Blockchain & FinTech Investment Banking Team at MJC Partners. Prior to joining MJC Partners, Mr. Fellinger served as a Director within the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Investment Banking group at BTIG. He has experience across private and public capital raising, M&A, and SPAC transactions, advising on deals representing over $20 billion in aggregate value. Prior to BTIG, he was a founding partner of Blocklink Ventures, a dedicated blockchain and cryptocurrency fund. He spent three years at Evercore in the M&A group as an Associate. Mr. Fellinger earned his BA from Cornell University and his MBA from Columbia Business School.

Hernan Hernandez is the Managing Director of MJC Partners, an independent investment banking firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning and capital advisory services for companies in the financial services industry. Mr. Hernandez is responsible for supporting the firm’s M&A and strategic advisory practice in the financial institutions sector, help accelerate the growth of the firm’s capabilities, and deepen its institutional knowledge particularly in the Regional Bank and Mid-Size Community Bank sectors.

Hernan joins the firm with a distinguished career of over 30+ years of experience, which includes a variety of roles across the financial services industry. Prior to joining MJC Partners, Hernan served as the Director of Investment Banking and Capital Markets at Credit Suisse, Senior Vice President and Manager of Corporate Development at City National Bank, and First Vice President of Finance at Comerica Bancorp. He has advised on multiple acquisition/sale transactions and capital raises totaling in excess of $7 billion. Hernan began his career as a commissioned bank examiner with the FDIC.

Hernan also currently serves as an Advisory Board Member of the Mid-Sized Bank Coalition, who advocates for mid-size banks by educating and engaging policy makers on important policy issues that help mid-size banks serve and strengthen the economy.

Hernan is licensed as a registered representative with FINRA and NASAA and holds the following licenses: Series 7, 79 and 63.

Nakul Mehta is a Managing Director on the Blockchain & FinTech Investment Banking Team at MJC Partners. Prior to joining MJC Partners, Mr. Mehta served as a Director within the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Investment Banking group at BTIG. Mr. Mehta spent over eight years at BTIG focused on private and public capital raising, M&A, and SPAC transactions, advising on deals representing over $40 billion in aggregate value. Prior to BTIG, he worked within the TMT Investment Banking Group at Morgan Joseph TriArtisan and started his career in Investment Banking at Stifel. Mr. Mehta received a B.S. in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Collin Finnerty is a Director on the Blockchain & FinTech Investment Banking Team at MJC Partners. Prior to joining MJC Partners, Mr. Finnerty served as a Vice President within the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Investment Banking group at BTIG. He has experience across private and public capital raising, M&A, and SPAC transactions. Prior to BTIG, he was an associate at Deutsche Bank in the Special Situations Group within the Equity Trading division after completing the Deutsche Bank analyst program. Mr. Finnerty earned his BA from Loyola University in Maryland and his MBA from Columbia Business School.

Mr. Kuykendall is Vice President at MJC Partners serving in a capacity of advising clients on mergers & acquisitions and capital raising, determining enterprise valuations, and originating new deals. Mr. Kuykendall brings with him over 10 years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining MJC Partners, Mr. Kuykendall served as an Associate Director with Sheshunoff & Co. Investment Banking advising community banks throughout the United States on M&A transactions, providing bank stock valuations, and assisting boards with strategic planning sessions. Prior to that role, Mr. Kuykendall served as an equity research analyst for Century Management, an asset management firm with $2.2 billion in assets under management. Over the course of his career, Mr. Kuykendall also provided retail investment services to individual, corporate, and not-for-profit clients during his tenures at T. Rowe Price and Mutual of America. Mr. Kuykendall graduated from Texas State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and a Certificate in Computer Information Systems. Mr. Kuykendall is licensed as a registered representative with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and holds the following licenses: Series 62 and 63.

Mr. Herrmann is an associate at MJC Partners, covering mergers, acquisitions, valuation analysis, debt & equity capital markets, and strategic planning. Mr. Herrmann previously worked as a consultant in the Financial Services group at Crowe. Originally from Rochester, NY, Mr. Herrmann is a graduate of the University of Southern California, with a bachelor’s degree in Physics and a minor in Business Finance.

Mr. Santos is an analyst at MJC Partners, covering M&A services, and debt & equity capital markets. Mr. Santos joined the firm full-time after completing a fall internship in 2022, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Economics from California State University, Long Beach.