General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> March 31, 2003

Ross Mandell – Sky Capital Holdings Ltd

ROSS H. MANDELL is the architect, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sky Capital Holdings Ltd. He has been a stockbroker since 1983. After being employed at a number of stock brokerage firms, including E.F. Hutton and Oppenheimer & Co., he struck out on his own in 1995 and founded and was the majority owner of Roan Capital Partners, a New York-based broker-dealer and investment banking firm. After selling Roan Capital in April 1997, Mr. Mandell joined The Thornwater Company, LP, as Senior Vice President. He has a BA from the University of Maryland. Profile
TWST: Sky Capital Holdings is a relatively new company. Tell us

how it came about, how you structured it to go public and its

performance to date as a public company.

Mr. Mandell: In April