James Reynolds, Jr., CFA

James Reynolds, Jr. is founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Loop Capital Markets. Mr. Reynolds is responsible for overseeing all investment banking, institutional sales and trading activity at the firm.

Mr. Reynolds has worked in the financial services industry for more than 27 years. Early in his career, Mr. Reynolds established and headed the Midwest Municipal Bond Sales Desk at PaineWebber in Chicago. Subsequently, Mr. Reynolds joined the Corporate and Institutional Client Group at Merrill Lynch where he managed the municipal sales team responsible for the distribution of all tax-exempt products to institutions in the Midwest. In 1997, Mr. Reynolds collaborated with Albert Grace Jr. to form Loop Capital Markets.

Mr. Reynolds strongly believes that successful executives have a responsibility to give back to the community. Mr. Reynolds participates as a board member of the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness, Chicago United, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, The University of Chicago Hospitals and The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. Additionally, Mr. Reynolds is Chairman of the board for the Chicago Urban League, a member of the Advisory Board of the Levy Institute/Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and he is a member of the CFA Institute.

Mr. Reynolds holds a Masters of Management in Finance from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

Mr. Reynolds received his Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the AIMR in 1991. Mr. Reynolds holds series 7, 24, 53 and 63 FINRA registrations.