Mike Carpenter

Managing Director and Head of Institutional Trading

Mr. Carpenter has more than 20 years of institutional sales and trading experience in both domestic and international equity markets. He started his career at Morgan Stanley, where he became an executive director in the institutional equity division. He spent 19 years at the firm trading for institutional clients primarily based on the West Coast. During his time there he was also responsible for developing new client relationships in U.S. equity sales in London, Paris, Geneva, and Frankfurt. He also served as a member of the firm’s MBA recruitment team at Stanford and UCLA.
During his career, Mr. Carpenter also worked as an institutional buy side trader at Dodge and Cox. In 2004, he became a partner at Pacific Growth Equities in San Francisco, where he provided research and trading coverage of emerging growth companies in healthcare and technology. Most recently, he served as managing director and head of the San Francisco office of Summer Street Research Partners, a healthcare focused investment bank. Mr. Carpenter holds a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz.