Bernie Colson Joins as Managing Director and Senior Equity Analyst,
Wayne Sansiviero joins as Managing Director and Senior Salesman
Seaport Global Securities LLC (“Seaport Global”), a full-service
investment bank, today announced that it has expanded its equity team
with the addition of Managing Director and Senior Energy Infrastructure
Analyst Bernie Colson and Managing Director and Institutional Salesman
Wayne Sansiviero, whose primary focus is growing the firm’s energy
infrastructure business with institutional clients. Together, they bring
41 years of experience covering the energy infrastructure space and join
Managing Director and Senior Energy Infrastructure Analyst Sunil Sibal
who covers both credit and equity securities in the space.
Bernie brings 16 years of investment research experience both on the
sell side and buy side, primarily covering energy infrastructure and
master limited partnerships (MLPs). He was previously Managing Director
of Equity Research at Oppenheimer & Co., where he covered energy stocks
across the value chain, including gathering & processing, pipelines &
storage, retail propane distribution, oilfield services, exploration &
production, and general partners. He also previously worked at Global
Hunter Securities, predecessor to Seaport Global Securities’ equities
division. Prior to his sell-side career, Bernie invested in energy
infrastructure and electric utilities on the buy side at firms such as
Tortoise Capital Advisors, Waddell & Reed, and Citigroup Asset
Management. He holds a bachelor's degree from Yale University and an MBA
from the University of Michigan’s Business School.
Wayne brings 25 years of experience in securities sales and capital
markets with a specialization in midstream and US energy infrastructure
companies. Prior to Seaport Global, he was Managing Director at
Clarksons Platou where he spent five years spearheading and launching
midstream sales, trading and research and serving as relationship
manager to institutional and family offices making investment in master
limited partnerships. Wayne also spent over 15 years at Lehman Brothers,
Oppenheimer and Global Hunter Securities in capital markets, syndicate
and sales roles with a focus on natural resources and midstream. He is a
graduate of Michigan State University and resides in Huntington, NY.
Ed Lainfiesta, Partner of Seaport Global, said, “We are very excited to
have both Bernie and Wayne rejoin our equity team to expand our energy
infrastructure franchise. They are proven thought leaders in the space.”
He added, “Energy infrastructure is a key component of the energy value
chain. Leveraging our expertise in upstream oil & gas exploration &
production, oilfield services, refining, coal, gas utilities, and
chemicals, our energy infrastructure expansion will be an integral part
of our energy strategy. ”
About Seaport Global Securities
Seaport Global Securities LLC (www.seaportglobal.com)
is a full-service investment bank that offers investment banking,
capital markets, financial advisory, sales, trading and research
services.
Co-headquartered in New York and New Orleans with offices across the US
and in Europe, Seaport Global pairs its extensive knowledge and
relationships in the Energy, Industrials, Materials, Transportation and
Healthcare industries, with a large platform of equity and fixed income
sales, trading and research. The firm’s forward-thinking practitioners,
backed by decades of experience, focus on meeting clients’ goals in all
business and economic cycles.
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