D.A. Davidson has named Burton Vance and Matt Michalski both as managing director, institutional sales by the firm’s equity capital markets group.
The appointments bring the number of senior hires to D.A. Davidson’s institutional equities team in 2023 to six.
Based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Vance joins D.A. Davidson after 29 years with Truist on the institutional equities team, most recently as managing director, equity sales.
Based in Boston, Michalski has more than 23 years of institutional equity sales experience with Truist and its predecessor, Robinson Humphries, most recently as director.
D.A. Davidson’s head of institutional equities, Liam Healy, said: “Boston is a priority market for our firm, and we are thrilled to welcome Vance and Michalski to the team. They both have deep experience in the industry covering the Boston territory and fit in extremely well with our culture.”
D.A. Davidson president of equity capital markets, Rory McKinney, said: “They bring decades of experience working together to the business, which is an invaluable asset as we look to further expand in this market.”
“As we continue to create differentiated, proprietary products, we are doubling down on investing in talent and resources to improve our abilities to deliver key insights to our buy-side partners,” McKinney added.
With a senior team of more than 20 research analysts that cover more than 500 public and private companies, D.A. Davidson’s equity capital markets group provides a full-service platform offering expertise to middle-market companies across four industries of focus: consumer, diversified industrials, financial institutions, and technology.
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