Roman Friedrich III Bio

Roman Friedrich III is the founder of Roman Friedrich & Company (“RFC”). Mr. Friedrich has been an investment banker, and formerly a commercial banker, to the mining and metals industry for over thirty-five years. Immediately prior to establishing Roman Friedrich & Company in 1997, he was the Managing Director at TD Securities responsible for its global mining M&A business. Early in his career he spent ten years at the Chase Manhattan Bank where among other positions he was Vice President for Latin America, President of Chase Manhattan Canada Limited, and Managing Director responsible for North American investment banking. From 1979 to April 1991 he was a partner at Burns Fry, a Managing Director at First Chicago and a partner at Wood Gundy. In 1991 he was a founding partner of the New York office of Lancaster Financial Corporation (a firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions) where he was responsible for the mining business of the firm. TD Securities, a subsidiary of Toronto Dominion Bank, acquired Lancaster in 1994. Over his career, he has provided numerous companies with advice on acquisitions, mergers and divestitures, as well as providing valuations and fairness opinions to companies in the mining, metals and other industries. His investment banking activities have included the raising of equity and debt capital and the arranging of project finance. Mr. Friedrich is on the Board of Directors of Zincore Metals Inc., and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the family of open and closed end mutual funds and ETF’s managed by Guggenheim Fund Investment Advisors, LLC all traded on the NYSE. He holds a B.A. from Rutgers University and attended business school at New York University.