Our Team - Trading

New Orleans

Keith Robinson
Partner, Equity Trader

D. Keith Robinson was raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He graduated from Louisiana State University with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and from Tulane University with a master’s degree in business administration. Keith has worked with Pritchard Capital Partners, LLC for more than six years. Prior to joining the firm, he worked for one and a half years at the Chicago Board Options Exchange and worked for seven years as a mechanical engineer prior to that. He lives in Madisonville, Louisiana.

Cristin DeMarco Hand
Equity Trader

Cristin DeMarco Hand was born and raised in the New Orleans area. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Louisiana State University with a bachelor’s degree in business management and earned a master’s degree in business administration from the University of New Orleans. Cristin joined the securities industry in 2005 and holds a Series 7, 63, and 55. She lives in Covington, Louisiana.

Our Team - International Sales Trading

New York

John Mendez
Senior Managing Director, Head of International Markets

John Mendez has over twenty years experience in international and domestic trading, as well as trading technology. Prior to joining Pritchard Capital Partners, LLC in 2010, John was the founder and managing partner of Alta Rock Global, LLC from 2007 through 2009. John has held various high senior level positions including Head of International Equity Trading, Co-Head of European Equity Trading, and Head of Latin American Equity Trading at such firms as CSFB, Nomura, ING Barings, and Lehman Brothers. He earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Miami with dual majors in Finance and Accounting with a minor in Economics

Our Team - Sales Trading

New York

Joseph F. Roche
Vice President, Sales Trading

Joseph F. Roche grew up in and around New York City. Joe has more than 25 years experience on Wall Street working with firms such as Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and RBC/Dain as a NASDAQ market maker. He joined Pritchard Capital Partners, LLC in November 2001. His responsibilities include institutional sales trading and client order execution. Joe is also the branch manager of the New York office. He is currently a member of the Security Traders Association of New York (STANY) where he held a board seat for 4 years. Joe currently resides in New Jersey.

Don Vuolo
Senior Vice President, Institutional Sales Trader

Don comes to the firm with a distinguished background. He spent his early year’s (1981 – 1987) trading convertible bonds at Goldman Sachs & Co where he was a senior trader. Thereafter, he set up and ran a successful convertible bond fund for Refco Securities where he managed a 50mm portfolio of hedged and unhedged convert positions and related single stock holdings. In addition, Don managed a comingled portfolio of convertibles, options, and equities for M.J. Meehan and Company throughout the 90’s with a couple of short stints managing his own portfolio before and after this position. From 2001 – 2008, he was the Head Trader for the New York hedge fund, Intrepid Capital Management, where he traded portfolios that focused on utilities, technology, and health care.

Gina Martinez
Senior Vice President, Institutional Sales Trader

Gina comes to Pritchard from Kellogg Partners where she has spent the last seven years as a sales trader and corporate access manager covering large institutional accounts and hedge funds.Prior to Kellogg, she held various trader and senior trader positions with SAC Capital, JP Morgan Investment Management, Van Kampen American Capital and CS First Boston. She currently resides in Long Island.

Washington, DC

Owen Jones, CFA
Senior Vice President, Institutional Sales Trader

Owen Jones joined Pritchard Capital from Lehman Brothers’ London office as director of equity trading where he was responsible for growing Lehman’s real estate and specialty financial franchise. In former positions, Jones was a proprietary trader with HSBC in London and was a captain in the United States Marine Corps. Mr. Jones holds an MBA from New York University, Stern School of Business and a BS from the United States Naval Academy.