Nikolai Sklaroff

Biography: NIKOLAI J. SKLAROFF, Vice President SALOMON SMITH BARNEY #229629 September 2002 350 California Street, Suite 2100 Telephone (415) 955-1619 San Francisco, CA 94104 Fax (415) 955-1555 Nikolai is a Vice President in Salomon Smith Barney's San Francisco Public Finance office. Salomon Smith Barney, a unit of Citigroup, is the nation's top-ranked underwriter of tax-exempt bonds. Nikolai has specialized in public finance for 16 years, serving as a financial advisor, a senior rating agency analyst and currently as an investment banker. He now works primarily with California issuers and specializes in credit engineering difficult credits for development, redevelopment and non-profit projects. Nikolai's current and recent clients include the California State University Channel Islands (new campus), San Francisco State University, (faculty and staff housing) the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (M. H. de Young Museum replacement financing), the California Academy of Sciences (Academy replacement project financing), the Music Concourse Community Partnership (garage financing), the San Diego State University Foundation (The Paseo, a mixed use development), and the Fruitvale Development Corporation (Fruitvale Transit Village). He joined Smith Barney from Moody's Investors Service where he was a Vice President/Senior Credit Officer. As a member of Moody's Public Finance Rating Committee, Nikolai was involved in the final rating determination of a broad range of municipal financings. Nikolai began working at Moody's in 1989, following several years as a financial advisor with Public Financial Management Inc., a Philadelphia-based national financial advisory firm. Active in industry associations and a frequent speaker on public finance issues, Nikolai also serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance (AGL&F), the national municipal leasing association and an officer of the San Francisco Bay Area Municipal Forum. Nikolai graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, with a concentration in Public Policy, from the College of Art and Sciences. He received a Master of Arts in Western European Economics and Politics from the University of Durham, University College, in England. He also studied Public Administration at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in New York prior to relocating to San Francisco.