Stifel Financial Corp. announced the hiring of Michael Gonzales as a Managing Director in the firm's Fixed Income Capital Markets Group. In this role, Gonzales will lead Stifel's efforts to expand its front-end credit sales, focusing on a broad spectrum of fixed income products, including asset-backed securities, investment-grade corporate debt, U.S. government securities, and structured notes.

He will be based in the San Francisco Bay area. A fixed income specialist with 28 years of experience trading, selling, and managing such assets, Gonzales joins Stifel from Citigroup, where he was a Managing Director and Head of West Coast Short-Term Fixed Income Sales for the western U.S. Prior to Citigroup, he was a Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Bank of America, where he held multiple credit and research analyst positions, including managing short duration mutual funds and separately managed accounts.