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Guggenheim Securities: Strategic Hiring
Guggenheim Securities hired Rafael Schnitzler, a former PJT Partners managing director, as senior managing director in its Telecom & Digital Infrastructure investment banking practice, based in New York, joining in June.
Source: citybiz — regional US deals
- Who
- Guggenheim Securities · USA
- What happened
- Guggenheim Securities hired Rafael Schnitzler, a former PJT Partners managing director, as senior managing director in its Telecom & Digital Infrastructure investment banking practice, based in New York, joining in June.
- When
- 2026-11-04
- So what
- Guggenheim Securities is resourcing ahead of a step-change, not backfilling.
The leadership read
Guggenheim Securities is resourcing ahead of a step-change, not backfilling. A build-out like this concentrates senior bench strength in the sector where the mandate is strongest. Watch the mix of the hires across Americas; that is the clearest read on the plan behind the headcount.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 104.6 (Hot) (up 3.6 month-on-month), Americas is at steady (-0.7pts) on signal share.
Guggenheim Securities: 1 signal in the last 90 days.
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Where this lands in our work
- Executive Search →
Hiring at this level is the visible half of a search that started a quarter earlier.
- Scale-up →
Regulated-market scale-ups add leadership layers earlier than their headcount implies.
- Executive Search: Americas →
Our Americas practice runs the searches behind signals like this one.
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