Mr. Colandrea joined Gleacher & Company in 2009 as a Managing Director in Investment Grade Fixed Income division, with responsibility for desk analysis in the telecom, cable, media, and entertainment sectors. Mr. Colandrea was most recently employed at JP Morgan where he was a Managing Director in the Portfolio Strategies group with the FAST (Financial Analytics and Structured Transaction) department. Prior to JP Morgan, he was a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns from 2002 until 2008 where he was Head of Corporate Bond Research. He has been an Institutional Investor-ranked analyst covering the telecom/cable, and media/entertainment sectors for the past eleven consecutive years in one or both categories. Prior to Bear Stearns, Mr. Colandrea was employed for six years as a senior credit analyst at Morgan Stanley where he joined from Prudential Insurance. Mr. Colandrea earned his B.S. degree from Wilkes University and an MBA in Finance from Fordham University.