Our veteran team of sales professionals, traders, underwriters and analysts combine deep industry expertise with a culture of collaboration to offer you exceptional client service. We leverage collective expertise and teamwork to find value for our institutional and RIA clients.
Charlotte, NC
(980) 938-7988 x7988
(704) 572-0693 mobile
Fairfield, CT
(203) 418-9078 x9078
(860) 214-3369 mobile
“I’m fortunate to have clients that are a pleasure to work with. They’ve worked hard to earn and save, and I make sure those savings work hard for them in return. They drive the process, and it’s my job to fully understand their goals and work together with them in constructing a strategy to achieve those goals, then implement that strategy.”
P.J. Dee always felt he was destined for a career in financial services, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather; however, he majored in sociology in college because he wanted to learn as much as he could about people and the world around him.
After a few years with a Wall Street global investment management firm, P.J.’s passion for helping clients generate income to meet current needs and plan for retirement inspired his move to HJ Sims.
P.J.’s background and experience comes in handy when helping his clients make investment decisions that are right for them. “I’ve learned that it’s important to let my clients take the lead, and to listen more than I speak. Once I feel certain that I fully understand a client’s needs, we can develop a plan together, which I implement and oversee.”
To P.J., it’s important to be honest, knowledgeable and diligent in working with clients. “I can’t control the market,” he says, “but I do control the ability to do my best by my clients by making sound investment decisions with them, and helping them to meet their goals.”
Fairfield, CT
(203) 418-9018 x9018
(718) 791-5057 mobile
Holds Series 7 and 63 licenses
“Trust and knowledge are key factors in sales.”
Starr has close to 30 years of experience in the financial services industry. At HJ Sims, she works in Institutional Sales with a focus on the municipal industry. Starr specializes in the high yield sector, which includes and is not limited to: senior living, housing bonds, zeroes, distressed and esoteric markets, as well as taxable municipals. Starr’s strength is in her relationships, some of which she has had for decades—she enjoys fulfilling customer’s strategic investment models and needs.
Charlotte, NC
(980) 938-7996 x7996
(704) 582-9270 mobile
Charlotte, NC
(980) 938-7995 x7995
(704) 488-7256 mobile
Charlotte, NC
(980) 938-7994 x7994
(980) 721-3138 mobile
Charlotte, NC
(980) 938-7992 x7992
(704) 614-2664 mobile
Charlotte, NC
(980) 938-7993 x7993
(704) 649-2288 mobile
Labon began his career in 1998 with Nations Funds, Bank of America’s asset management division. In 2004, he joined First Tryon, a local Charlotte, NC corporate and municipal bond trading firm, and began trading investment grade municipal bonds. In 2017, Labon began working for PR Gilboy as a municipal trader and became a member of HJ Sims later that year when the two firms merged.
Charlotte, NC
(980) 938-7989 x7989
(704) 293-4348 mobile
Iselin, NJ
(732) 590-0508 x0508
(201) 421-1812 mobile
Fairfield, CT
(203) 418-9051 x9051
(718) 440-6311 mobile
“Relationships are based on trust. Trust is the currency of the marketplace, and once lost is almost impossible to fully regain.”
Nicholas “Nick” Squitieri has been employed in the capital markets business for 18 years. Beginning his career in the back office, Nick has succeeded in many roles, including: administration, trading, underwriting, and sales at firms like Advest, Banc One, Prudential, and ABN AMRO/Lasalle Bank.
Nick firmly believes in the value of establishing relationships with clients and employees of the firm. His philosophy is that solid internal relationships are a key component of excellent client service.
Nick is a firm believer in the power of compound interest. He also believes in continuous education and improvement, stating, “No one should ever stop investing in him/herself. In our time, the world will change more during a year than it used to transform within a decade, and more in a decade than a century. It is imperative to keep pace or ahead.”
A graduate of Pace University (B.A. in business and accounting), and The Zicklin School at Baruch College (M.S. in finance), Nick resides in Ridgefield, CT, along with his wife and two children. He holds a current CPA license (CT), and enjoys automotive preservation and Little League Baseball.
Iselin, NJ
(732) 590 0527 x0527
(508) 237-4442 mobile
Arthur Wunder began his career in the financial services industry in 1976 as a municipal bond salesman for The Northern Trust Company and First Penco. From 1978 until 1997, he was associated with Dillon Read & Co. Inc. where he served as the manager of its municipal bond department until the firm’s acquisition by SBC Warburg. At Tucker Anthony, Mr. Wunder was instrumental in changing the firm’s municipal institutional focus from a traditional high-grade operation to one of high-yield and went on to manage the firm’s fixed income division. When the firm was acquired by RBC Dain Rauscher, he became the institutional sales manager for high-yield municipals.
In 2005, he was recruited by the Chairman of the Advest Group Inc., a subsidiary of Axa Financial, to manage its fixed income division until Advest was acquired by Merrill Lynch. In 2008, Mr. Wunder co-founded Braintree Capital Partners, LLC, a Massachusetts registered investment adviser managing municipal bond portfolios for high net worth investors.
Arthur is a graduate of St. John’s University in New York.
Boca Raton, FL
(561) 620-2145
(617) 388-8760 mobile
Gayl Mileszko joined us in 2011 as a Senior Vice President and serves as the Director of Credit Analysis.
She supports our trading, sales and banking teams by providing data, insight, reviews and assessments, and works closely with our high yield desks to optimize trading decisions. Gayl has penned the weekly market commentary for our banking and private wealth clients for the past eleven years, offering an insight that is based on more than 25 years of fixed income experience. Most recently, she co-managed the Sims High Income Portfolio, LP., and served as the chief analyst, chief operating officer and co-founder of Braintree Capital Partners, the investment advisory firm we acquired and recently integrated into HJ Sims Capital Management.
Gayl began her financial services career in public finance at Tucker Anthony, a regional broker dealer, where she handled day-to-day banking and financial advisory engagements for a number of major issuers in the Northeast and Midwest. She later became the chief of staff and principal business adviser to four successive fixed income division managers responsible for the firm’s trading, sales and banking activities.
Her background also includes more than a decade of experience in senior government roles. She served in the cabinet of Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, in his executive office as chief of staff for legislative affairs and as director of public affairs, and on the board of the Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority, at the time one of the nation’s largest issuers of revenue bonds. Gayl began her career in Washington on the staff of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee and its then Ranking Member, Silvio O. Conte of Massachusetts.
She earned her B.A. from Yale College in political science with an interdisciplinary concentration in international relations. A native of Massachusetts, she currently resides in Florida and is based in our Boca Raton office.
