Joe Garofoli

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Joe Garofoli is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Roc Global, an international investment banking business focused on serving clients within the Clean Energy and Sustainable Metals & Mining sectors. He is responsible for managing the firm’s global operations and strategic decisions as well as originating and executing transactions. Joe has differentiated the firm’s Sustainable Metals & Mining business by focusing on critical minerals including base and battery metals and industrial and specialty minerals opportunities. He has successfully led and closed transactions across multiple jurisdictions and disciplines including M&A deals in the US and Chile, equity placements in Canada and Brazil and project finance/debt advisories throughout the Americas.

Before founding Roc Global in 2011, Joe co-founded and led KBC Financial Products convertible, credit and derivatives businesses and formed and managed D.E. Shaw & Co.’s global equity-linked business in New York. Previously he was President of Cresvale International, a specialist in convertible securities. Joe serves on the board of Astrea Farnihas e Olios S.A., a leading independent agricultural recycling business in Brazil, and is a member of Leadership Committee of Americares, a non-profit emergency response and global health organization. He is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics.