Title: Managing Director
Firm: Stifel
Age: 39
Betsy Kiehn started her municipal career on the underwriting desk and there she remains more than a decade later thriving on the interplay between issuers, bankers, and investors demanded by the job.
Betsy, a managing director at Stifel, serves as co-head of California underwriting from the firm’s San Francisco office and also heads up other West Coast issuance.
“I honestly feel grateful every day,” she said. “I get to interact with so many different types of people from issuers to investors to bankers so I get to touch on a lot of different parts of the public finance world and I appreciate that everyone has different objectives but at the end of the day we are working together.”
Betsy grew up in Massachusetts and attended the University of Vermont then headed west in 2003 where she began working at the former Stone & Youngberg in San Francisco assisting in underwriting operations. She moved up the ladder and became the lead underwriter in California after Stifel acquired the firm in 2011.
When off the desk, Betsy prefers spending time outdoors with her husband of eight years and their children, Emma, 6, and Liam, 2. Emma is already an avid skier, but Betsy is giving her son a little more time to pick up speed.
