Tom Troy assumed the role of Executive Vice President and Senior Managing Director in June 2004. Before joining Bear Wagner Specialists, he spent 20 years at Merrill Lynch. Troy was most recently Senior Vice President responsible for Global Financing. Prior to that, he had served as Head of Merrill Lynch’s Institutional Equity Business for the Americas, after having had the same position in London as Head of Equity Markets for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

An active member of the American Ireland Fund, he serves on the Board of St. Ignatius School in Hunts Point, The Bronx. Troy attended College of the Holy Cross where he graduated with a B.A. in Economics. He later completed his M.B.A. at New York University. A first-generation Irish American, his father’s family comes from County Mayo and his mother’s family, the Jordans, hail from County Cork. He resides in Summit, NJ with his wife Kirn and their four sons, two of whom currently attend the University of Notre Dame.