Timothy Lufkin Joins Cowen’s Industrials Investment Banking Group

Cowen Group, Inc. ("Cowen”) (NASDAQ: COWN) announced today that Timothy Lufkin has joined the firm as Managing Director in the Industrials Investment Banking group. Mr. Lufkin will be based in New York and will report to Jeff Porphy, Cowen’s Head of Industrials and Financial Sponsors.

"We are pleased to welcome Tim to Cowen. He brings almost 20 years of experience and a proven track record in M&A advisory and investment banking execution,” commented Jeffrey Solomon, Cowen’s Chief Operating Officer and Head of Investment Banking. "I expect that seasoned hires like Tim will add to the momentum we’ve generated in investment banking over the past few quarters.”

Mr. Lufkin was most recently at FBR Capital Markets where he was a Managing Director responsible for initiating new business development focusing on both buyside and sellside M&A and public and private capital. Prior to FBR, Mr. Lufkin helped build Legacy Partners Group LLC, a boutique M&A and capital raising firm, which was sold to FBR Capital Markets in 2007. Before that, Mr. Lufkin spent over ten years at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette where he held a variety of positions. Mr. Lufkin holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Alabama.

About Cowen Group, Inc.

Cowen Group, Inc. is a diversified financial services firm and, together with its consolidated subsidiaries, provides alternative investment management, investment banking, research, and sales and trading services through its two business segments: Ramius and its affiliates makes up the Company’s alternative investment management segment, while Cowen and Company is its broker-dealer segment. Its alternative investment management products, solutions and services include hedge funds, replication products, managed futures funds, fund of funds, real estate, health care royalty funds and cash management services. Cowen and Company offers industry focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Founded in 1918, the firm is headquartered in New York and has offices located in major financial centers around the world.