NEW YORK, July 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Guggenheim Securities, the investment banking and capital markets division of Guggenheim Partners, announced today that Jordan Bliss will join the firm as a Senior Managing Director in the firm’s Healthcare investment banking group. Mr. Bliss will focus on advising companies in the life sciences sector and will be based in Guggenheim’s San Francisco office.

Mr. Bliss has more than a dozen years of healthcare investment banking experience and will join Guggenheim from Credit Suisse where he was a Managing Director and Head of West Coast Life Sciences Investment Banking. Before joining Credit Suisse, he was a Managing Director in the Global Healthcare investment banking team at Barclays. Mr. Bliss began his investment banking career at Lehman Brothers in Healthcare M&A.

“We are excited to welcome Jordan to Guggenheim,” said Mark Van Lith, Co-CEO of Guggenheim Securities and Head of Investment Banking. “Jordan has extensive strategic advisory and capital raising experience in life sciences.  As we grow our life sciences effort, expanding our footprint with Jordan’s focus on emerging and established companies on the West Coast will be a key part of that strategy.”

Mr. Bliss received his M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, where he was a Beta Gamma Sigma NY Alumni Award recipient, and his B.S. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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1 Assets under management are as of 03.31.2018 and include consulting services for clients whose assets are valued at approximately $66bn. In April 2018, Guggenheim Investments closed the sale of the firm’s Exchange Traded Fund (“ETF”) business representing $38.6bn in assets under management, which will be reflected in the June 30, 2018 assets under management.

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