Guggenheim Securities has announced John Plaster ’91 will join the firm as a senior managing director. He will lead the firm’s power, utilities and renewables investment banking practice together with Senior Managing Director Jim Schaefer.
He will join Guggenheim with more than 25 years of investment banking experience with Barclays and previously Lehman Brothers. He most recently served as head of power and utilities investment banking for the Americas at Barclays. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Plaster worked as an attorney in the corporate finance group of Shearman and Sterling.
He currently serves as co-chair of the Edison Electric Institute’s Wall Street Advisory Group. Plaster holds a JD degree, with highest honors – Order of the Coif – from Vanderbilt University Law School and a BA from Wabash College.
While at Wabash, he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and majored in economics.
