Mike is a Managing Director and Head of Fixed Income Strategies for Icon Wealth Partners. With over three decades of fixed income management experience, Mike manages Icon’s Fixed Income separately managed accounts. He is a member of the Investment Committee and conducts due diligence on third-party fixed income managers.
Prior to joining Icon, Mike was a Partner and Head of Fixed Income at Avalon Advisors. He established and built Avalon Advisors’ taxable and municipal fixed income platforms. Mike and his team grew the firm’s fixed income assets from $75 million in 2002 to $1.5 billion in 2011.
Mike began his career in 1985 in Paine Webber’s institutional fixed income group in New York City. While at Paine Webber, he worked with some of the nation’s largest institutional fixed income clients including major money center banks, Fortune 500 insurance companies, and institutional money managers. In 1990, Mike moved to Houston to continue his career in institutional fixed-income markets with Underwood Neuhaus, and later Texas Commerce Bank, Chase Securities, and JP Morgan Securities.
Originally from Philadelphia PA, Mike is a graduate of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA where he earned a B.A. in Economics in 1985 while playing on the Generals basketball team. An avid tennis player, Mike resides in Houston and is the proud father of two grown children.
