Title: Director
Firm: Hilltop Securities
Age: 35
Industry & Community Contributions: Board Member and Dallas Event Chair, Women in Public Finance
Fun Facts: When Marti is not chasing after her pride and joy—her four- and two-year-old daughters—she spends time cooking, reading, traveling, and enjoying live music.
Marti Shew specializes in providing financial advice and implementing planning and financing of debt for local governments. Marti intimately knows the technical side of the business, having structured more than 200 financings totaling over $2 billion for a variety of issuers including cities, counties, public and private universities, airports, hospitals, and water districts. She has developed the market and procedures to conduct competitive private placements quickly and efficiently, substantially reducing costs for clients.
Marti led a team dealing with a start-up redevelopment district to assume the operations of a water system primarily serving the U.S. Army and its evolution to a fully operational district. When the original entity that operated the system changed its mission away from utility operations, the community led the initiative to create a replacement. Marti successfully financed the acquisition bonds of the redevelopment district despite the lack of operating history and experienced personnel.
"Marti has a natural ability to deliver bad news gracefully yet forcefully, an art seldom utilized in Texas given our positive economic activity! She understands the numbers and is able to efficiently deliver quality advice to clients in a way that is understandable to the client."
Boyd London
Financial Advisor,FirstSouthwest, a Division of Hilltop Securities
