Bruce J. Young
President, Institutional Sales and Trading
Vice Chairman, Executive Committee Member, Board of Directors
350 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60654  |  312.595.7140  | 

Area of Focus: Institutional Sales and Trading

Profile:

  • Heads Mesirow Financial's Institutional Sales and Trading division
  • Member of Mesirow Financial's board of directors and executive committee
  • Responsible for new product development for the fixed-income market, for direction of marketing and sales with a broad range of insurance companies, banks, pension funds and money managers, and managing the firm's position inventories and the hedging of risk associated with those positions
  • Previously CEO and founder of Young Capital Group, an institutional sales and trading firm with nearly 25 employees and offices in Chicago and Greenwich, Connecticut
  • More than 40 years of experience
  • Holds Series 7 and Series 24 licenses
Education:
  • B.A., Roosevelt University
Affiliations:
  • Lookingglass Theatre, board member
  • FINRA District 8 Nominating Committee, past chairman
  • FINRA District 8 Conduct Committee, past vice chairman
  • Chicago Stock Exchange, past board member
  • Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, past board member
  • North American Company for Life and Health Insurance, past board member
  • United Jewish Fund, Financial Services Division, past dinner chairman
  • Chicago Bond Club Board of Governors, past member