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ON THE MOVE: Point72 Names Lota Trading Head; Tierney to iSentium
Traders Magazine Online News, May 8, 2018
After six months of searching, Point72 Asset Management has found a new head of U.S. trading in a veteran employee. Dan Lota, the firm’s interim head of U.S. trading for the last six months and a 15-year veteran of the firm, will stay in the role. Lota is taking over the role after former head of U.S. trading Phil Villhauer retired from the firm in October 2017.
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iSentium, the global leader in extracting value from social sentiment feeds like Twitter and Stocktwits, has hired Financial Services veteran Ray Tierney, as President and COO, reporting to Gautham Sastri, the firm’s CEO. Tierney's resume includes lengthy tenures at Morgan Stanley & Co., Morgan Stanley Investment Management and Bloomberg spanning his 36 years in Capital Markets. Tierney has long been at the forefront in the emerging world of fintech and also sits on several Boards, including The Ronald McDonald House as well as National Organization of Investment Professionals (NOIP). He has also been a contributor to Traders Magazine.
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Virtu Financial hired Pete Candler to help develop and grow its execution services business. Candler is a seasoned professional with 20 years of trading and market structure expertise, leading both high touch and low touch execution desks servicing international clients trading into the US markets from abroad. Candler is one of approximately 30 new hires Virtu has made since the acquisition as it focuses on growing its client franchise. He joins Virtu from Evercore ISI where he was a Managing Director. Prior to Evercore ISI, Candler was at Deutsche Bank and at Credit Suisse.
Joe Noviello, the former head of NASDAQ eSpeed, has been hired by Tradeweb, according to his LinkedIn profile. Noviello’s title will be Managing Director of Dealerweb Technologies. He previously was at LJM Advisors, a firm he founded In January 2017. Noviello will report to Tradeweb’s Chief Technology Officer, Jay Spencer.
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