Chelsea Howes

Chelsea Howes is Chief of Staff to CEO Marc Cooper and responsible for developing business and financial analysis, as well as corporate collaboration across teams. She joined Solomon Partners in 2022.

Prior to joining Solomon Partners, Chelsea worked as an Associate in Barclays’ Consumer Retail Group, providing advisory services on both sell-side and buy-side M&A transactions, equity and debt financings, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) and strategic alternatives. Before her role in the Consumer Retail Group, Chelsea spent four years as an Analyst and Associate in Barclays’ Financial Institutions Group, where she helped execute a number of successful sell-side transactions in the Specialty Finance sector.