Napoleon Brandford

A public finance veteran, Mr. Brandford has over 25 years of experience in public finance and is a founding partner of Siebert Brandford Shank, an investment banking firm established in 1996. The firm quickly rose to the position number-one-ranked minority-owned investment banking firm in the nation as senior-managing underwriter and now maintains a rank among the top-twenty municipal underwriters nationwide. Mr. Brandford has led large-scale financing projects for state, city, and local governments throughout the country. In Southwestern and West Coast states he has served as project manager on senior- and sole managed-financings totaling over $5.7 billion in par amount during the past 10 years which has helped catapult Siebert Brandford Shank to its top-ranked position among investment banking firms on Wall Street. Mr. Brandford is a graduate of the University of Southern California where he received a Master’s Degree in Public Administration and a Bachelor of Arts Degree with a Major in International Studies from the Purdue University. Mr. Brandford serves on several boards including the Board of Councilors for the University of Southern California’s School of Policy, Planning and Development; the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Leadership Advisory Board; and the San Gabriel Boy Scouts of America among others. He is also very active in various school mentoring and academics scholarship programs at the K-12 level.