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NEW YORK, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ AmeriVet Securities, Inc., (AVI) announced today that Mercedes Elias and Michael Naidrich have been appointed Co-CEOs. Additionally, the firm hired two new employees, both of whom are women veterans.
Ms. Elias, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, is currently the only woman veteran to lead a service-disabled broker-dealer in the Diversity and Inclusion space on Wall Street.
Mercedes Elias and Michael Naidrich
Ms. Elias served on active duty for nearly 10 years as an administrative and legal officer. During her time in the military, she rose to the rank of Captain and deployed to Afghanistan from 2011 to 2012. She separated from the service in 2016 and remained in New York to focus on the veteran community, and support military members as they transitioned into the corporate world.
Airmen of the 332
nd AEW gathered for a remote meeting with the sister of a fallen service member who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his courage and bravery during captivity in the Vietnam Conflict.
Brig. Gen. Joseph Kunkel, the 332
nd AEW Commander, opened by introducing Ms. Janine Sijan-Rozina, the sister of Capt. Lance Sijan, a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate and Vietnam Prisoner of War.
Sijan-Rozina relates the story from her childhood, watching him play football in high school and then at the U.S. Air Force Academy where after becoming a commissioned officer went on to fly the F-4 Phantom. That path led directly to the Vietnam War where he flew clearing operations over the Ho Chi Min trail where his aircraft crashed severely injuring him.
16 Airmen of the 332nd AEW gathered for a remote meeting with the sister of a fallen service member who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his courage and bravery during captivity in the Vietnam Conflict.
Brig. Gen. Joseph Kunkel, the 332nd AEW Commander, opened by introducing Ms. Janine Sijan-Rozina, the sister of Capt. Lance Sijan, a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate and Vietnam Prisoner of War.
Sijan-Rozina relates the story from her childhood, watching him play football in high school and then at the U.S. Air Force Academy where after becoming a commissioned officer went on to fly the F-4 Phantom. That path led directly to the Vietnam War where he flew clearing operations over the Ho Chi Min trail where his aircraft crashed severely injuring him.