Karen Jacobson and Raymond Wong recently joined the Energy Investment Banking group at Raymond James & Associates Inc.
Jacobson, a 30-year veteran of the oil and gas industry, joins as senior vice president, geosciences. Prior to joining the firm, she was a senior geophysicist at Opal Energy Inc., a director at Scotia Waterous, Inc. and a consultant for Team Invest Inc.
She has a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University.
Wong joins the firm as senior vice president, engineering. Previously, he spent more than three years as an associate director with Scotia Waterous, the oil and gas investment banking arm for the Bank of Nova Scotia, and also held various engineering and commercial positions over 12 years with Chevron.
He holds an MBA from Duke University and a bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas at Austin.
Raymond James Equity Capital Markets provides a comprehensive set of products and services, including equity and debt capital markets products; public finance services; mergers and acquisitions advisory services; institutional equity and fixed-income sales and trading; and equity research. Headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, it has institutional equity and fixed income offices throughout the United States and Europe.