MountainView Capital Holdings has appointed Robert Wellerstein as new managing director in its mortgage and fixed income sales and trading units.

Wellerstein has experience in sales and trading of mortgage loans, mortgage servicing rights and fixed income securities. He will be based in Los Angeles.

Wellerstein will join MountainView from Banc of Manhattan Capital, where he was a senior vice president of whole loan and fixed income sales and trading.

Previously, Wellerstein worked for 17 years at Countrywide Securities, where he was responsible for sales of all fixed income products, including agency servicing portfolios, residential whole loan pools, mortgage-backed securities and Community Reinvestment Act loans.

He began his career with Hamilton, Carter, Smith and Company, where he facilitated sales of FNMA, FHLMC and GNMA mortgage servicing rights and marketing of MSR portfolio valuation services.

MountainView Capital Holdings CEO Michael Morgan said MountainView continue to expand the firm’s capabilities in the mortgage and fixed income capital markets, his hiring further demonstrates its commitment to providing the institutional clients with a wide range of valuable services.