ISI Team
Mark R. Fraker - Sales
Prior to co-founding ISI Capital, LLC in November 1999, Mark was the head of sales in the Emerging Markets Credit Group at Southport Securities, LLC from June 1998 and at Stires, O'Donnell & Co. from October 1995 where he also served as the head of emerging markets corporate bond research. Previously, Mark had been in sales and research in U.S. high-yield bonds from 1989 to 1994 including 4 years at CRT Capital Group. Before 1989, he worked in commercial banking with Bankers Trust Company and Chase Manhattan Bank which included a credit training program in 1982. Mark has B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from The Wharton School.
Christopher S. Dechiario, CFA - Research
Prior to co-founding ISI Capital, LLC in November 1999, Chris was the head of research in the Emerging Markets Credit Group at Southport Securities, LLC from June 1998 and was an analyst at Stires, O'Donnell & Co. starting in August 1996. Chris started his career at Atlantic Capital, an affiliate of the Clarendon Group, from 1983 to 1988 where he became a senior analyst for a $2 billion high-yield bond portfolio. Chris has also worked on a variety of private equity transactions at the Beacon Group, Inc. in Boston. Chris has a B.S. from The Wharton School.
Kevin T. Denney - Sales
Prior to joining ISI Capital, LLC in May 2008, Kevin was a Senior Institutional Equity Salesman for over three years, most recently with Sterne Agee & Leach. Prior to that, Kevin spent over eight years in equity research with the majority focused on Packaging & Containers at Salomon Smith Barney and the electronics supply chain at Brean Murray. Kevin graduated with both a BSM & MACCT from Tulane University.
Stephen J. Pugliese - Sales
Prior to joining ISI Capital, LLC in October 2004, Steve was a high-yield trader at Speer Leeds & Kellogg for 2 years and before that was in high-yield bonds at Brownstone Investment Group for 2 years. Steve graduated with a B.A. from UNC-Charlotte where he earned Athletic Dean's List 3 times and he also made Athletic Dean's list at University of California at Los Angeles prior to that.
Peter H. Kim - Research
Prior to joining ISI Capital, LLC in April 2007, Peter was an analyst in the Capital Markets Analyst program for the Lehman Brothers Convertibles Research team. Peter has a J.D. from Fordham University and a B.A. in Economics from Columbia University.
Louis Kouvaris - Equity Sales & Trading and Technical Analyst
Prior to joining ISI Capital, LLC in February 2008, Lou spent 12 years at Cantor Fitzgerald as an equity sales trader.
He served as a sales trader of equities, options and convertible and high-yield securities while at CRT Capital Group (4 years) and Access Securities (5 years). Lou also worked at Kidder Peabody (2 years) as a retail broker and at Coopers and Lybrand (3 years) as an auditor. He is a graduate of Boston College with a B.S. degree in Accounting.
Lou is an avid practitioner of technical analysis.
Michael A. Bloom - Investment Banking
Prior to joining ISI Capital, Michael founded and ran Matthew Kennedy and Co, a boutique advisory firm outside of San Francisco. Prior to that he was a Managing Director with CIBC World Markets, where he ran Leverage Finance for Telecommunications, Media, and Technology ("TMT") in Europe. He joined CIBC from Barclays Capital, where he co-founded the High Yield Group and ran Capital Markets with a particular emphasis on TMT companies. Michael began his career with Toronto Dominion, where he was part of the oversight committee that established their High Yield department, and was a relationship officer in the TMT investment banking group. Earlier at TD he ran a diversified investment portfolio of tax efficient structured products, high yield bonds, public and private equity, and fund limited partnership interests. Michael earned his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and his MBA from UCLA's Anderson School of Management.