Meet the Team
Mike Shea, Head of Equity Trading
312 506-8740
Mike Shea leads the Monroe trading desk, where he works with shareholders, banks, and investors who need to buy or sell community bank stocks. As head of equity and preferred stock trading, he is a primary contact for clients, often sharing market color and working with the Street on hard-to-trade situations. Mike has spent his entire career at Monroe, joining the firm as a trader in 2000. He earned a B.S. from the University of Rochester and holds the SIE and Series 7, 24, 63, and 57 securities licenses.
Ford Dickinson, Trader
312 506-8743
Ford Dickinson is a trader on Monroe’s Equity Desk, where he works with shareholders, banks, and investors who need to buy or sell community bank stocks. Having managed portfolios himself, he brings the investor’s perspective to the trades he handles. Ford joined Monroe in 2022. Before that, he was a portfolio manager at Middleton Dickinson Capital Management, LLC, and worked at Cetera Financial Group. He graduated from the University of Colorado in 2018 with a double B.S. in Economics and History, and he holds the SIE and Series 7, 63, and 57 securities licenses.
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