Title: Senior Vice President
Agency: HilltopSecurities Inc.
Age: 32
Connor Benoit serves as a municipal funding banker and is targeted on rising Hilltop’s underwriting enterprise, overlaying transportation and infrastructure issuers nationally.
Benoit has labored on greater than 100 municipal transactions for toll street issuers, transit companies, state departments of transportation, Garvee issuers, airports and seaports, amounting to greater than $33 billion.
Benoit has additionally actively engaged with the U.S. Division of Transportation all through his profession and has labored on six transportation tasks receiving federal loans from the Construct America Bureau.
Previous to becoming a member of Hilltop in 2024, Benoit was a senior member of Citi’s transportation group. He began his profession there as an analyst in 2015.
Whereas Benoit initially anticipated to be answerable for menial duties, he had the chance to work straight with the top of Citi’s transportation group, Ron Marino.
“That was a pivotal level in my profession as a result of although my title was analyst, I used to be given the chance to tackle a whole lot of duty, which led to touring, assembly with purchasers and being deeply concerned with transactions from starting to finish,” Benoit stated. “Ron was an unbelievable mentor and an business icon, often called the Godfather of Transportation, and I discovered all the pieces I may from him. I discovered you at all times do what’s greatest for the shopper and deal with them like individuals — get a way for who they’re, what they’re desirous about and what they care about.”
Benoit grew up in Plattsburgh, New York, and graduated from the College at Albany.
“I really like the tangibility of the tasks I get to work on,” says Benoit. “The intersection between the general public impression and the monetary markets is exclusive and it brings a whole lot of good individuals to the identical place. I actually get pleasure from being part of this neighborhood.”
