John Joseph Lyons

Mr. Lyons joined Keefe Managers, Inc. in February, 1999.
He is also President of Rainbow Managers, LLC and Managing Principal of Keefe Ventures, LLC, the affiliated venture capital arm of Keefe Managers.
Mr. Lyons has over thirty years of experience in the banking industry.
Before joining Keefe Managers, Inc., he was the turnaround President and CEO at four different banking organizations in Florida, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Mr. Lyons was Corporate Finance Director of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. from 1973 to 1976.
He later founded the bank consulting firm of Lyons, Zomback & Ostrowski, Inc., which was sold to Advest, Inc. in 1988.
From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Lyons served as Vice Chairman of Advest, Inc. Starting his career as an F.D.I.C.
bank examiner in New York and Washington, DC, Mr. Lyons later served as an F.D.I.C.
instructor on bank financial analysis.
He has been a lecturer with the Community Bankers Association of New York State and the New York State Bankers Association, and has served as a banking commentator for the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour.
Mr. Lyons holds an MBA in Financial Management from Pace University in New York City, and a BS in Economics from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.