Roger Widmann was a Principal of the investment banking firm of Tanner & Co., Inc. from 1996 to 2004, providing advice and negotiation and evaluation services to corporations ranging from Fortune 200 companies to mid-sized firms. 

From 1986 to 1995, Mr. Widmann was a Senior Managing Director of Chemical Securities Inc., a subsidiary of Chemical Banking Corporation (now JPMorgan Chase Corporation).  He established the Bank's fee-based corporate finance business in 1986. In addition to his responsibilities in the U.S., he was responsible for projects ranging from South America to Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

Prior to joining Chemical, Mr. Widmann was a founder and CEO of First Reserve Corporation, the largest independent energy investing firm in the U.S.  Mr. Widmann is Chairman of Keystone National Group, a fund of venture and private equity funds.

Previously, he was Senior Vice President with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, responsible for the firm's domestic and international investment banking business.  He has also been a Vice President with New Court Securities Corporation (now Rothschild, Inc.), completing a series of venture capital and merger and acquisition transactions.  Mr. Widmann began his career in 1964 as an SEC trial attorney.

Mr. Widmann was Chairman of Lydall, Inc. (NYSE), Manchester, CT, a manufacturer of thermal, acoustical and filtration materials, from 1998 to 2004, and a board member since 1974.  He is also a director of Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc., Port Washington, NY, a real estate investment trust, GigaBeam, Durham, NC, a manufacturer of wireless communication links, and Standard Motor Products, Long Island City, NY. He was a director of First Reserve Corporation, Greenwich, CT from its inception in 1980 until December 1995, Paxar Corporation, White Plains, NY from 2004 to 2007 and Weatherford Enterra, Houston, TX from 1993 to 1998. 

Mr. Widmann has been a senior moderator of the Aspen Seminar at the Aspen Institute since 1990 and of the Liberty Fellowship, Greenville, SC, since 2004. He has been President of the March of Dimes of Greater New York since 1994.  He is also a Vice Chair of Oxfam America, an affiliate of Oxfam International, the multinational humanitarian and crisis relief organization, and a Director of MicroCredit Enterprises, a global microfinance corporation.

Mr. Widmann earned a B.A. degree from Brown University, cum laude, and a J.D. Degree from Columbia Law School.