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ON THE MOVE: Mizuho Hires Pasquill to Head Equity Division

Traders Magazine Online News, November 6, 2018

John D'Antona Jr.

Mizuho Americas has landed Darlene Pasquill as a Managing Director and Head of its Equity Division. Pasquill will be responsible for expanding the firm’s capabilities in equity research, sales and trading. Pasquill will join Mizuho’s Management and Risk Committees. Pasquill spent more than 20 years at Credit Suisse, most recently as Head of Americas Equities. She will report to Jerry Rizzieri, President and CEO of Mizuho Securities USA.

Darlene Pasquill

Imperative Execution Inc, hired John Palazzo as CEO/COO of the newly formed broker/dealer operation. Intelligent Cross. Palazzo has led strategy, product, and electronic sales & trading efforts at major firms including UBS, CA Chevreux, and Instinet. Recently, Palazzo hired a quantitative trading veteran, Chris Bleuel, for trading operations, process monitoring and client facing tasks.  Bleuel has held various hedge fund, family office and broker/dealer positions since 1989.

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Deutsche Bank poached James Rubinstein, UBS' Americas head of algorithmic trading and analytics, as its new Americas Head of Electronic Equities and Managing Director in its New York headquarters. Rubinstein, a 20 year veteran who specializes in algorithmic trading and quantitative research.

Barclays hired Rob Kottmeier as a managing director to lead its business credit and data strategy team.

Industry consultancy GMAG has hired Ralph Piscitelli to spearhead its West Coast initiative. Previously, Piscitelli worked at The Conference Board as Director of Global Communications, serving on their Management Committee for the last five years. Prior to the Conference Board, he served as Executive Director of Communications for Nomura and served on the Board of the Nomura Americas Foundation. In addition, Ralph spent over twelve years working at the NYSE and Specialist firm Benjamin Jacobson & Sons establishing relationships with NYSE Listed Companies.

KeyBanc Capital Markets has promoted Brendan Grady as its new head of sales trading. Based in New York, he onboards from Barclays. At Barclays he served as a managing director in sales trading and achieved a #2 ranking on the 2016 Institutional Investor All-America Trading Team. Prior to that, he ran the trading desk in Stamford, CT at UBS. He began his career as a sales trader at HSBC. Grady will report to Kevin Kruszenski, head of Institutional Equities for KeyBanc Capital Markets.

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