Michal Katz

Managing Director

Head of Investment & Corporate Banking

Mizuho Americas

Michal Katz is the Head of Investment & Corporate Banking for Mizuho Americas, a division of the Mizuho Financial Group, one of the largest financial institutions in the world with $2tn of assets. At Mizuho, she is responsible for close to 1,000 bankers and business professionals across Americas, Europe and Asia. Her division serves clients spanning public and private corporations and alternative investment firms including the largest private equity and infrastructure funds. Michal is a member of Mizuho Americas’ Management Committee, overseeing the region’s strategy and financial performance. 

With a career spanning over 25 years on Wall Street, Michal is recognized as a seasoned and trusted advisor to corporations, alternatives and boards in corporate finance, strategy and digital transformation.  Prior to Mizuho, she was Co-Head of the Global Technology Investment Banking Group at RBC Capital Markets. Prior to RBC, Michal was a Managing Director at Barclays and Lehman Brothers, where she was head of the global software practice in the Technology Investment Banking Group. She also spent several years with the law firms of Skadden Arps and Winthrop Stimson (now Pillsbury Winthrop), where she practiced corporate law.

Michal was recognized by American Banker as one of the Most Powerful Women in Finance in each of the last three years, named by Crain's among the Notable Women on Wall Street in NYC for the past 5 years and named as 2022’s Trailblazer Markets Media Women in Finance. She is an independent director to the board of PTC (NASDAQ:PTC) and serves on the board of the GRAMMY Museum Foundation, a not-for-profit arm of the Recording Academy, where she chairs the Finance Committee. She previously served on the board of Nuance Communications (NASDAQ:NUAN). She is also a member of the Economic Club of NY and the Forbes Finance Council.

Michal received her BA with honors from Binghamton University and JD from New York University School of Law.

She resides in New York with her husband and has girl boy twins.