Public Finance Professionals

Blaine Spady, Vice President, Public Finance

Blaine Spady joined the SMITH HAYES Public Finance team in 2006 as an investment banker in the Public Finance Department following his position as a Financial Advisor Representative for Linsco Private Ledger. Blaine brings extensive business and management experience to SMITH HAYES from his experience as Director of Engineering for Nanometrics Incorporated where he obtained eight patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. As Vice President, Blaine oversees all aspects of public finance business at SMITH HAYES.

Blaine's highest priority is providing Nebraska issuers with the lowest cost of capital for their projects by using a wide range of analytical and modeling strategies to develop creative and cost effective financing solutions. The majority of Blaine's work is with Nebraska Cities' and Counties' general obligation debt and Sanitary and Improvement District warrants and bonds. Blaine's involvement is with all types of financing structures, from rated and enhanced to non-rated and un-enhanced, retail and institutional structures, fixed and variable rate bonds.

Blaine and his wife Robin live in Lincoln with their baby daughter Eleanor. Blaine enjoys spending time with his family and golfing when time permits.
Blaine is a native of Imperial, Nebraska. He has earned from the University of Nebraska the following degrees: B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1992; M.S. of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1995; and Master in Business Administration in 2007. He has taken the Series 7, General Securities Representative Exam, Series 66, Uniform Combined State Law Exam, and Series 53, Municipal Securities Principal Exam.

Andy Snyder, Investment Banker, Public Finance

Andy Snyder, a Nebraska native, joined the SMITH HAYES Public Finance team in 2008 as an investment banker in the Public Finance Department following his position as a Financial Advisor with Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. Andy is dedicated to bringing Nebraska's Cities and Counties the most cost effective solutions to finance their projects.

Andy is from Kearney Nebraska, where he earned a B.S. at the University of Nebraska at Kearney in 2004. He has taken and passed the Series 7 and Series 66 exams. He enjoys volunteer work as a participant in the Meals on Wheels Program in Lincoln, and spending time with his wife and children.