John F. O’Donoghue is the Managing Director and Co-Head of Equities of Cowen and Company, LLC., one of the leading firms in health care, technology, media and telecommunications, consumer, and aerospace and defense equity research.

Prior to joining Cowen in 2005, O’Donoghue was a Managing Director and Co-Head of Trading at Credit Suisse First Boston. Prior to that, O’Donoghue spent 24 years with Schroder and Company Inc, where he was Managing Director from 1994 to 2000.

O’Donoghue was born and raised in County Down, Ireland and graduated from Queen’s University in Belfast with an honors B.Sc. degree in Economics. He moved to the United States in 1980 and is married with two children. He serves on the Queen’s University Foundation Board and is a member of the American Ireland Fund.