About Us
Over almost four decades, a single disciplined approach to bottom-up small-cap investing has anchored our firm.
Investment Team
Pier’s diverse senior executive team are all partners and have substantial personal assets invested in the firm. Many have worked together for 20-plus years, and have built a strong culture focused on clients and results..
Alex Yakirevich
President and Chief Investment Officer, Partner
"I feel like a student every day when I come to work. That's what keeps me going—applying the same methodology, the same process, and always learning something new."
Andrew Hokenson, CFA
Senior Equity Analyst, Partner
"Investing in small-cap growth is always dynamic, always interesting, and always intellectually stimulating. I continue to view the small-cap asset class as ripe for discovering alpha and remain excited to deliver for our clients."
Anne Hua, CFA
Senior Equity Analyst, Partner
"The healthcare sector is one of the market's most complex and fast-evolving areas. My goal is to bring the precision of a scientist and the discipline of a small-cap growth investor to discover companies before the market fully appreciates their potential."
Dmitry Malinsky
Senior Equity Analyst, Partner
"Small-cap growth is one of the most dynamic and intellectually rewarding areas of the market because it offers the opportunity to discover companies before they are fully understood by all."
Natalie Wright
Senior Equity Analyst, Partner
“Small-cap growth trading is never easy, but I love using strong broker relationships to get difficult trades done, particularly in illiquid securities.”
Operations Team
Kathy Mienko
Chief Compliance Officer
26 Years with Pier
Entered Industry in 1999
Alison Sandor
Accounting/Information Systems
23 Years with Pier
Entered Industry in 1980
Colin Gillap
Operations Specialist, Marketing Associate
3 Years with Pier
Entered Industry in 2022
Our History
1987
Firm founded as the investment division of Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), an international engineering firm in Zurich, Switzerland.
1998
ABB sold the asset management business to Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB), based in Stockholm, Sweden, and renamed SEB Asset Management America, Inc
1999
Hired Kathy Mienko, now Chief Compliance Officer
2000
Hired Anne Hua, now Senior Equity Analyst, Healthcare
2002
Hired Alison Sandor, now Manager of Accounting and Information Systems
2004
Acquired 100% of the asset business from SEB and formed Pier Capital, LLC.
2004
Hired Alex Yakirevich, now President and CIO.
2006
Hired Andrew Hokenson, now Senior Equity Analyst, Backup PM
2008
Hired Natalie Wright, Senior Trader
2012
Hired Dmitry Malinsky, now Senior Equity Analyst
2014
Alex, Dmitry, Anne, Andrew, and Natalie named partners
2017
Research team moves to Jersey City, NJ
2022
Hired Colin Gillap, Operations Specialist and Marketing Associate
2026
AUM at approximately $650 million