Bio

Jim Pirouz serves as Head of Origination and Syndicate with Truist Securities. Previously, Mr. Pirouz served as Head of Consumer, Retail and Healthcare Investment Banking, where he successfully grew the group to a leading practice on Wall Street, serving both corporate and financial sponsor clients in strategic advisory and acquisition financing. Prior to these roles, Mr. Pirouz served as a Managing Director in Healthcare Investment Banking where he was responsible for coverage of the Benefits Management, For Profit Acute Care and Distribution sectors where he originated and executed mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt transactions. Mr. Pirouz joined SunTrust Robinson Humphrey in March 2009. He was previously a Principal in Banc of America Securities' Global Corporate and Investment Banking leveraged finance Group focused on Healthcare mergers and acquisitions, LBO and other capital markets transactions. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors for United Way of Greater Atlanta, UNC Kenan Flagler Business School and the Center for the Business of Health at UNC Kenan Flagler Business School. Mr. Pirouz holds a Bachelor’s of Science from Cornell University in Mechanical Aerospace Engineering and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.