Byron C. Roth, MBA ’87

Byron Roth is Chairman and CEO of ROTH Capital Partners, LLC.  Under his management the firm has raised over $18 billion for small-cap public companies, as well as successfully completed many merger and acquisition and advisory assignments.  Roth co-founded three small-cap asset management firms; Cortina Asset Management, EAM Investors and GROW Partners. These funds have combined assets under management of approximately $3.5 billion.

Roth is a member of the University of San Diego Board of Trustees and a Founding Member of the Executive Cabinet for the Athletic Department. He is also a member of the Advisory Council for the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.  Roth earned his BBA from the University of San Diego in 1985 and his MBA from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University in 1987.