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ON THE MOVE: Instinet Names Roberts CEO
Traders Magazine Online News, December 11, 2018
Instinet Incorporated, the equities broker owned by Nomura Holdings, has appointed Ralston Roberts as its CEO, replacing long-time veteran Jonathan Kellner who recently left the firm to join cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. At Goldman Sachs, Roberts was a Managing Director and Co-Head of Execution Services for EMEA. Before working at the multinational investment bank, in June 2013, he was named as the chief operating officer for real-time market data and network services at SunGard, a software provider.
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