Brady Parish has been appointed as a managing director, who will play a key role in Moelis & Company’s expansion into Houston and in the build-out of its oil and gas client coverage effort.

Parish has nearly 20 years of investment banking and business development experience primarily focused on the oil and gas sector.

He was most recently a managing director in the global natural resources group at Goldman Sachs in Houston.

Prior to Goldman Sachs in 2005, he was a director in the global energy and power group at Merrill Lynch and previously worked in the energy investment banking group at JP Morgan.

The Houston office, which is expected to open in April, will be the company’s ninth office globally and follows its recent expansion into Asia and the Middle East.

Moelis & Company serves its clients through offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, Dubai, London, Los Angeles and Sydney.