Christopher Williams

Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC (SWS)

Christopher Williams is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and an equity owner of Shank Williams Cisneros & Co., LLC, as well as a Principal of Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC (SWS). Williams' career launched in 1984 at Lehman Brothers, where he worked his way up to senior management responsibilities in debt capital markets, derivatives, and fixed income trading. He later founded the Williams Capital Group, L.P. in 1994. Thomson Reuters has consecutively recognized Williams Capital as one of the most active underwriters of publicly traded equity and investment-grade corporate debt offerings since 2000. Williams Capital's client portfolio consists of more than 65 of the nation's 200 largest companies, participating in over 1000 corporate debt and equity offerings from 2013 to 2019. Williams is the Chairman and co-founder of SWS, America's largest women- and minority-owned investment bank.