Our Team

Jaime Aldama

President

Jaime Aldama is the President of Momentus Securities. An SEC-registered broker-dealer, MSRB-registered, and a FINRA/SIPC member, Momentus Securities offers a range of services across markets and investment banking. This investment bank with a social purpose drives institutional capital to small businesses and nonprofits and positions social impact as a fully investable asset class for institutional investors.

During his 20-year career, Jaime has held a number of leadership roles in several large investment banks. Before joining Momentus Securities, Jaime worked at Barclays as the North American Head of Credit Structuring, overseeing a team that led some of the industry’s largest, most critical, and award-winning structured transactions.

Before Barclays, he was responsible for the origination, structuring, and distribution of structured asset-backed derivative transactions and bespoke correlation products at Lehman Brothers and also Citigroup. Jaime started his career at Societe Generale in their Madrid and London offices.

He holds a Masters of Economic Science, majoring in Econometrics from the University College Dublin (UCD).

Tian Wu

Head of Debt Capital Markets

Tian Wu is the Head of Debt Capital Markets at Momentus Securities. She focuses on channeling more institutional capital into affordable housing, small businesses, charter schools and other social investment sectors. She is passionate about helping clients find creative funding solutions that fit their unique profiles.

Tian was previously a Director in Debt Capital Markets at Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. where she structured and executed some of the most complex debt financing and liability management transactions for some of the largest corporate issuers. She is part of the 37 Angels investor network and the president of National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP) New York Chapter.

Tian graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration (Finance track) and a double major in Statistics.

Vikram Kuriyan

Head of Structuring

Vikram Kuriyan is Head of Structuring at Momentus Securities where he focuses on bridging the gap between institutional investors and America’s small businesses and nonprofits. Serving as an agent for capital providers and mission-driven lenders, Vikram creates bespoke credit solutions to address funding, liquidity, capital, and accounting needs that help clients efficiently achieve their goals.

Prior to joining Momentus, Vikram spent 14 years at Lehman Brothers and Barclays specializing in structured credit. He started his career on the Structured Finance Trading desk at Lehman Brothers and at Barclays went on to assist clients with managing accounting and economic risks in structured credit portfolios through the financial crisis. He successfully led the restructuring of over $15bn of legacy assets through innovative transactions that reduced risk, funding costs, and capital requirements.

As a Director in Barclays’ Financial Resource Management unit, Vikram built on this expertise with portfolio-level balance sheet, liquidity, and capital/accounting optimization transactions, successfully executing significant internal and capital markets-facing deals.

Vikram earned a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in Economics from the George Washington University and is a CFA® charterholder.

Yi Wei

Head of Institutional Sales

Yi leads institutional investor relationships at Momentus Securities as Head of Institutional Sales. Prior to this role, she served as the Vice President of Capital Initiatives and Partnerships at Momentus Capital where she led investor engagement and fund structuring across the company’s business lines. Yi had also served as Vice President of Impact Capital at IFF, a CDFI that provides financing to nonprofit real estate projects across the Midwest.

Prior to her time working in impact investing in the US, Yi worked in international development serving as the Global Director of Water and Sanitation at iDE. She spent nine years in Asia and Africa, growing a start-up initiative into the largest market-based rural sanitation program globally. Yi’s expertise includes impact investing, corporate strategy, capital raising, and partnership development.

Yi holds a BA in Social Studies from Harvard University and an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Bill Coyle

Securities Operations Associate

Bill Coyle is a Securities Operations Associate at Momentus Securities, where he focuses on ensuring accurate trade execution, lifecycle management, and risk control processes. He serves as a critical link between the trading and sales teams, operational support functions, and compliance departments, contributing to the efficient operation of the investment bank’s day-to-day activities.

Prior to joining Momentus Securities, Bill spent four years at Capital Impact Partners. As a Capital Deployment Associate, he helped structure and manage pooled investment vehicles, diligenced mezzanine debt investments into small businesses, and provided ad hoc financial analysis and operational design support across the firm’s various business teams.

Before his time at Momentus Capital, Bill worked for three years at PwC as a Senior Transfer Pricing Associate. There, he supported global structuring engagements and developed internal operational models that enhanced project efficiency and generated cost savings.

Bill holds an MBA from Georgetown University and a BA in Economics from Boston College.