Rodge Cohen is one of the most influential people behind the scenes of cleaning up the banking crisis. : Rodge Cohen is one of the most influential people behind the scenes of cleaning up the banking crisis. There are plenty of differences between the fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the 2008 financial crisis, but one similarity is the man trying to clean it up: H. Rodgin Cohen, known as Rodge, the senior chair at the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell.