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Mizuho Americas today announced the expansion of its US equity platform, hiring Mark McLain and Peter Heller as Managing Directors to focus on equity trading across utilities and energy sectors. Based in New York, they will report to Eric Shenker, Managing Director and Head of Equity Trading at Mizuho Americas.
"We continue to invest in our equity platform in order to meet the growing needs of our clients," said Matt DeSalvo, Head of US Equities at Mizuho Americas. "The addition of Mark and Peter demonstrates our commitment to hiring senior traders with deep expertise."
In his role at Mizuho, Mark McLain will focus on utilities and MLPs equity trading. McLain previously served as Managing Director at Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., where he headed power and energy trading on the institutional desk and gained distinction as a top producing sales trader at the firm.
Peter Heller joins Mizuho to head up trading for the energy and industrial sectors. In his previous role as Head of Trading at CRT/Sterne Agee, he oversaw all capital commitment for the desk, with expertise across energy, utility, industrial and materials sectors.
Mizuho's US equity platform continues to grow and gain traction, with a collection of senior additions over the past year. Most recently, Mizuho added two senior analysts to its equity research team and announced senior hires on the event-driven stocks team.
