Bob Wagner is Managing Director, Investment Banking Group, based in Imperial Capital’s Los Angeles Office. Mr. Wagner has significant expertise is the global Aerospace and Defense industry. Prior to joining Imperial Capital, Mr. Wagner co-founded the Aerospace and Defense practice at Wachovia Securities where he led numerous buy-side and sell-side M&A advisory assignments and capital raising transactions for a broad range of aerospace and defense industry suppliers and prime contractors. Financing transactions included syndicated bank loans, 144A high yield bonds and convertible notes and underwritten common equity offerings. Prior to joining Wachovia, Mr. Wagner spent over 10 years with CIBC in New York and Los Angeles focusing on leveraged finance, sponsor focused, pre-workout recapitalization transactions and other domestic and international corporate finance transactions.

Michael McManus is a Managing Director, Investment Banking in the Los Angeles office of Imperial Capital, focusing on the Homeland Security, Defense, and Security markets. Most recently, Michael was a Managing Director with USBX Advisory Services, LLC prior to its acquisition by Imperial. He joined USBX from SmallCap Corporate Advisors, LLC, which he founded to bring bulge bracket investment banking expertise to smaller publicly traded companies that were underserved by large investment banks. Prior to founding SmallCap, Mr. McManus was with Jefferies Quarterdeck in both the Los Angeles and Washington D.C. offices. While with Jefferies, Mr. McManus focused on the aerospace, defense and government services sectors and specialized in public company merger, acquisition and financing transactions. Mr. McManus has also worked for CIBC World Markets and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ.) During his five years with DLJ, he gained broad experience with all product and advisory skill sets. Additionally, while with DLJ in London, Mr. McManus co-founded the European exclusive sales practice to focus on cross-border, middle-market sell-side transactions.

Prior to attending business school, Mr. McManus served in the U.S. Army for over seven years, in various capacities including Tank Platoon Leader and Headquarters Company Executive Officer. Mr. McManus received an B.S. in Computer Science from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and an M.B.A with distinction from the S. C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.