Keith Peterson has joined Oppenheimer & Co. as Managing Director and Head of Cash Equity Sales and Trading, according to a press release. He will report to John Hellier, Senior Managing Director and Head of Equities. Peterson joins Oppenheimer with more than two decades of equity markets experience. He most recently served as Partner and Head of Sector Trading at William Blair. Before that, he spent nearly 20 years at Credit Suisse in trading-focused roles across multiple sectors, including telecommunications, media and technology.
Wajih Ahmed has swapped Goldman Sachs for Balyasny Asset Management, joining the firm as a macro portfolio manager after more than a decade with the bank, Global Trading reported. Ahmed has almost a decade of industry experience, all of which has been spent at Goldman Sachs. He joined the bank as an inflation trading analyst in 2016, before becoming an associate and then vice president of inflation trading in 2020.
Oxana Yarkova-Valente has joined Trading Technologies as a sales executive, Global Trading reported. Yarkova-Valente has close to 25 years of industry experience and joins the firm from MTS Markets, where she has been a sales executive and senior sales manager since 2013. Earlier in her career, she was a sales executive and business analyst at the London Stock Exchange Group.
Wells Fargo & Company has announced in the press statement that Saul Van Beurden, currently CEO of Consumer and Small Business Banking, will lead Artificial Intelligence for the company. In addition, Kleber Santos, currently CEO of Consumer Lending, will take on expanded responsibilities and serve as co-CEO of Consumer Banking and Lending. Van Beurden previously served as the head of Technology and led the global team of information technology and security professionals.
Following the departure of Mike Bellaro and Mark Wilcox, the Advisory Committee and Chairs of Plato Partnership have elected Jack Benda as interim COO, he shared on LinkedIn. He has been Head of Marketing and Communications at Plato since 2022.
C.D. Baer Pettit, President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at MSCI, and a member of the Board of Directors, has informed the company that he will retire next year after more than 25 years in senior leadership roles. Pettit will continue to serve as President and a Director until March 1, 2026, and will remain as an advisor to the company for a period of time to ensure a smooth transition.
Arianne M. Collette has joined the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) as Managing Director and Head of U.S. Equities, according to a press release. She will be based out of DTCC’s Jersey City location and will report to Val Wotton, DTCC Managing Director and Global Head of Equities Solutions. Collette joins DTCC from Morgan Stanley, where she held senior leadership positions including Chief Operating Officer and Head of Strategy for Reinvestment, Global Head of Sales Strategy, and Americas Head of Resource Optimization.
tZERO Group has appointed Mike Diedrichs as Senior Vice President and Head of Sales, according to a press release. A seasoned capital markets executive with over 20 years of experience scaling fintech, trading, and AI-driven platforms, Diedrichs previously served as Chief Revenue Officer at Bosonic, where he led global expansion initiatives and developed institutional sales strategies for its broker-dealer and ATS platform for digital asset securities.
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