Mr. Boyle began his state and local government career at the Pennsylvania Economy League’s (PEL) Western Division in Pittsburgh, PA where he worked on a variety of local government and school district projects until he was recruited by Mellon Bank to start a Public Finance operation at the Bank. At Mellon, the Public Finance effort enjoyed considerable success.
From Mellon, Mr. Boyle went to Atlanta to join the Citizens & Southern National Bank (C&S) to again start a Public Finance operation. As C&S grew and expanded from Georgia into Florida and South Carolina, the Public Finance effort became a multi-state Public Finance Department operation with clients throughout the Southeast. After C&S was acquired by BofA, Mr. Boyle opened the Atlanta office of the Sumitomo Trust & Banking Company. He has also served as the CFO for ANBC, Inc., a manufacturing company based in Norcross, GA, and as a Principal Consultant for an international hospitality corporation. Mr. Boyle returned to PEL to work with distressed municipalities in Pennsylvania, assisting communities such as Scranton and Harrisburg to return to fiscal solvency.
Mr. Boyle has an AB in Government and Politics from King’s College, an MA in Political Science from the University of Alabama, and an MPA and was ABD at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Boyle has served as an Instructor in Political Science at Alliance College and at Georgia Highlands College. Mr. Boyle holds the Series 50, Series 52, Series 53, and Series 63 securities licenses.
Managing Director, Credit Analysis
Founder, Board Member
Christopher Melvin has been in involved in the capital markets for 35 years. He started his career as a Reorganization Representative for Midwest Securities Trust Company at the Chicago Stock Exchange. Between 1980 and 1986, Melvin held positions as a Clearing Surveillance Officer, Assistant Trader in risk arbitrage for Shatkin Investment Corp., and Managing and General Partner and Nominee for M & K Options, a Member Firm of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange.
In 1986, Melvin established his own trading company, Nansemond Corporation, which was a Member of the Chicago Stock Exchange. Between 1991 and 2010, he was the founder of several financial companies, including Melvin Specialists, LLC (Member, Chicago and Boston Stock Exchanges), Commonwealth Financial, LLC (Member, Boston Stock Exchange), LaSalle Capital LLC (Member, NASD, NASDAQ, and Chicago Stock Exchange), Melvin Securities (Member, FINRA) MAC Indexing LLC and Chicago River Capital LLC. Mr. Melvin has held membership in the Board of Directors of the Chicago Stock Exchange (1993 – 1996), SIFMA (2000 – 2003) and the Board of Governors of the Boston Stock Exchange (2004 – 2007).
He currently serves as a board member of the Illinois RTA and served as Chair of its Finance Committee.
Mr. Bryant has over 15 years of experience as a quantitative analyst, investment banker, compliance officer, and municipal advisor. During his career, Mr. Bryant has managed in excess of $15 billion in taxable and tax-exempt issuances from an array of issuers including cities, utilities, special districts, airports, hospitals, sports facilities, school systems, universities, and public-private partnerships (P3’s).
Mr. Bryant is a graduate of Georgia State University with degrees in Computer Information Systems and Finance. He holds FINRA General Securities Representative (Series 7), General Securities Principal (Series 24), Municipal Securities Representative (Series 52), Municipal Securities Principal (Series 53), Municipal Advisor Representative (Series 50), and Uniform State Law (Series 63) licenses.
Theron Picketts is the Director of Corporate Finance for Melvin Securities. He is an accomplished securities industry veteran. With over 30 years of experience, his career began on the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE). Afterward, he continued into operations, sales trading, marketing, and business development at Bear Stearns. A native Chicagoan, he’s been a longstanding member of the Securities Traders Association of Chicago (STAC) and is a former National Board Member of NASP (National Association of Securities Professionals).
He holds FINRA General Securities Representative (Series 7), Uniform State Law (Series 63), Securities Trader (Series 57), and Uniform Investment Advisor (Series 65) licenses.
Theron earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Drake University, and an MBA from Loyola University Chicago.
Jason Taylor is head of Institutional Sales and Trading at Melvin Securities. With over 25 years in the financial industry, he has a broad base of market knowledge and experience to draw from. Starting out selling municipal bonds to a retail client base, then growing into institutional bond trading and sales, Jason’s experience is invaluable to our clients. His experience trading at firms like Utendahl Capital Partners, Wells Fargo and E Trade gives him insight into both institutional and retail buyers alike. His focus at Melvin Securities is managing the trading operations and developing the institutional sales team.
He holds FINRA licenses series 7 & 65.
Jason is a graduate of Temple University
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