Our Story
After establishing one of the first SDVOB broker/dealers in the early 1990s, I was called up for active military service in December 2001 and spent several years overseas on six deployments. I became a combat veteran having served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. After my deployments, I returned to the States and saw that the entire SDVOB broker/dealer landscape had changed and I would need more resources and a strategic partner to compete and continue AmeriVet’s mission to hire and train returning U.S. military veterans. South Street became that partner by investing significant resources in our firm and sending us down the path towards success. I am humbled by the support South Street has given the AmeriVet team and look forward to providing differentiated value to our clients.
– Elton Johnson, Jr., Chief Executive Officer and a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Retired Reserve
Our Team
AmeriVet is proud to leverage the talent of our roster of veterans who have distinguished themselves in both the military and in the financial sector, plus proven experts and specialists in capital markets and investment banking.
Patrick Perdue
Managing Director
Head of Fixed Income & Business Development
Veteran, United States Navy
Our Board of Directors
Our Partners
Established in 2001, South Street Securities is New York City-based, SEC-registered, FINRA-regulated broker-dealer that concentrates solely on repo cash investment and repo security financing services. In October 2018, South Street made a capital commitment in AmeriVet Securities to create a client focused, full-service institutional broker-dealer and Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Business (SDVOB) for the institutional market. South Street also provides operational support to AmeriVet (e.g., compliance, information technology, accounting).
A subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, Pershing provides clearing and settlement services to AmeriVet.
