Managing Director
Fixed Income Sales
Mr. LaPietra began his career in 1991 as an Asset Liability analyst for Central Bank of the South in Birmingham, Alabama. By the fall of the following year, he began working as a fixed income sales person for the firm. After developing California into the firm’s single largest territory, Mr. LaPietra moved to Chicago in 1997 to work for FTN Financial. At FTN, Mr. LaPietra held the position of Senior Vice President and provided coverage to multibillion-dollar U.S. branches of overseas banks, domestic depository institutions, and government municipalities as a fixed income strategist and portfolio advisor. In late 2001, FTN relocated Mr. LaPietra to California to establish their Los Angeles office. In 2007, Mr. LaPietra and his colleagues created PLP Capital Markets, which originally offered securities through Braver Stern Securities. In 2014, PLP moved to Blue Capital Securities, who subsequently changed their name to Tribal Capital Markets mid-2015. Mr. LaPietra holds an MBA in analytical finance from The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
FINRA Licenses: Series 7, 24, 52, & 63