Mr. Pirouz serves as Head of Corporate Banking for Truist Securities. Mr. Pirouz’s teams are responsible for providing value-added corporate finance advisory including capital structure and allocation content, delivering the full suite of capital markets solutions as well as the comprehensive continuum of treasury management and payments solutions in coordination with investment banking coverage teams. Working together, Corporate and Investment Banking teams provide client-centric, industry-focused advice delivering the entire Truist platform.
Previously, Mr. Pirouz served as Head of Capital Markets and Syndicate for Truist Securities. Capital Markets is comprised of Equity Capital Markets, Leveraged Finance, Investment Grade Debt Capital Markets, Public Finance, Financial Risk Management, Asset Securitization, Project Finance and the respective Syndicate desks.
Mr. Pirouz also served as Head of Healthcare Investment Banking as well as Consumer & Retail, where he successfully grew the groups to leading practices on Wall Street, serving both corporate and financial sponsor clients in strategic advisory and acquisition financing. Prior to his leadership role, 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.
Mr. Pirouz 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.
Mr. Pirouz currently serves on the Boards of Directors for the World Affairs Council, the Board of Advisors for UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, and the Center for the Business of Health at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. He formerly served on the Board of the United Way of Greater Atlanta for two terms.
He holds a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and an MBA from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mr. Pirouz is married with three children and resides in Atlanta, GA.
