New York
JOE GAROFOLI
Founder, CEO
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Joe founded Roc Global in 2011. He leads the firm's metals and mining practice, focusing on the base, industrial, and specialty minerals space. Joe has successfully advised and led transactions across multiple jurisdictions, including the sale of a brownfield copper asset in Chile, an agricultural recycling business in Brazil, and arranging the project finance for a potash business in Canada. In addition, Joe has also worked in the precious metals space, including debt advisory for the restart of a precious metals mine in Colorado.
He was previously managing director and co-founder of KBC Financial Products, and also formed and led D.E. Shaw & Co.'s global equity-linked business in New York.
Joe serves on the University of New Hampshire Foundation Board and also the Leadership Committee of Americares, a non-profit emergency response and global health organization.
ARTHUR MUSCIO
Co-Founder, COO and CFO
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Art Muscio is Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Roc Global. He is responsible for implementing the firm’s strategic objectives and managing the firm’s global operations and infrastructure functions as well as assisting in deal execution and due diligence. Before co-founding Roc Global in 2011, Art was previously Managing Director, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at KBC Financial Products and headed and managed the U.S.-based infrastructure and back-office groups. Before that, Art was Finance, Operations and Controls Director at D. E. Shaw & Co. and Senior Manager at both Ernst & Young and Spicer & Oppenheim. Art’s professional experience includes accounting, finance, treasury, operations, middle office, compliance, regulatory, treasury, tax and human resources. Art received his B.S. degree in Accounting from New York University Stern School of Business. He is a Chartered Global Management Accountant and a Certified Public Accountant. Art holds the Series 27 license and serves as the firm’s FINOP.
JOHN ZHANG
Managing Director
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John Zhang is Managing Director at Roc Global based in the Greater New York area. He joined Roc Global in 2019 and has over 25 years of experience in capital markets and investment banking businesses. At Roc Global, he has been involved with and successfully executed a variety of capital formation and M&A transactions in the Metals and Mining sector. He is also responsible for liaising with Asian institutional investors. Before joining Roc Global, he was a founding partner at a global macro hedge fund and commodity trading advisor. He also served as a Managing Director at Bank of America, Citigroup, and Credit Agricole Lazard Financial Products, advising clients on complex capital market transactions in the US and throughout Asia. He started his career as a derivatives trader and convertible bond arbitrager in New York , as well as in Europe. He also serves on the investment committee of Fairfield County’s Community Foundation. John graduated summa cum laude with bachelor’s degrees in mathematics, statistics, and economics from the University of Rochester and earned a master’s degree in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. John is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
RYAN CHOU
Director, Analysis
MATTHEW ROSS
Senior Analyst
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Ryan’s focus is performing research within the Metals & Mining, Power and Infrastructure sectors. Over the past five years, Ryan has done analysis on assets and projects for the purpose of providing M&A and project finance advice in the natural resources sector. Ryan and his team are involved in all aspects of the deal process including due diligence, market research, financial modeling, developing marketing materials and idea generation on behalf of Roc Global clients. Prior to working at Roc Global, he was a financial analyst at Verizon Media. Ryan holds a Masters in Economics from New York University and a Bachelor in Economics from the University of Chicago.
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Matthew focuses on new economy minerals and clean energy infrastructure. He primarily focuses on advanced or operating stage companies. In his two years with Roc Global, Matthew has lead firm research efforts in battery metals, rare earths, and other specialty topics. Matthew holds a Bachelor in Accounting and Finance from the University of New Hampshire.
Dallas
PETER ROBERT
Managing Director
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Origination - Power & Energy
Peter has been with Roc Global since 2017 and has expertise in energy investment banking, project finance and capital markets. Prior to Roc Global, Peter was responsible for private equity coverage (deal origination - power, energy & infrastructure) at BBVA in New York for 7 years. Previously, spanning a period of 20 years, he held several leadership positions in capital markets in New York at Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley, CAL FP (a Lazard affiliate) and Citigroup. Peter holds Bachelor’s and M.Eng. degrees in Engineering from Cornell University.
Latin America
JOSE MANUEL BORQUEZ
Mining Advisor, Chile
RODRIGO VIOLIC
Clean Energy Advisor, Chile
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Jose Manuel has joined Roc Global in 2021 as an Independent Consultant. He has spent his career in Latin and North America advising corporate, institutional and significant private clients in the U.S. and Latin America. Jose Manuel has been practicing law and business development in Santiago for more than 20 years. Previously, he was in house counsel for Fortune 500 mining companies like Placer Dome (part of Barrick Gold now) and MIM Holdings Pty. Ltd., (part of Glencore Xstrata now) where he helped in the building of world-class mines and mining projects. He brings to Roc Global experience in mining project finance, mining royalty markets and mining exploration. Jose Manuel holds a degree in Law from the University of Chile and was a Fellow in the Master of Sciences in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown University. He is fluent in English and Spanish and can converse in Portuguese and French
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Rodrigo Violic joined Roc Global in 2021 as an Independent Consultant. He brings to Roc Global experience in project finance for the renewable energy, mining and infrastructure sectors. He has over 25 years of banking experience in project finance in Chile and UK, participating in more than 100 transactions. Between 2005 and 2021 he was Head of Project Finance of Banco BICE and previously worked as Vice President of Resource Banking at the British merchant bank N.M. Rothschild & Sons Ltd. in London. He is a professor at the Non-Conventional Renewable Energy Technologies and Management post-graduate programme of Universidad Adolfo Ibañez in Santiago, Chile. Rodrigo is a Commercial Engineer from Universidad Católica de Chile.