Industry veteran Gerald Domanski joined Braver Stern Securities as global head of equities. In recent years, Domanski has held senior equities/trading roles at Tejas Securities and S.J. Levinson. He also spent five years as an international trader at BTIG. Domanski was at Spear, Leeds & Kellogg for 14 years.
Stephens Inc. hired seven sales traders and two position traders from Lazard Capital Markets, including Michael Conte as head of sales trading. All of the traders will work in Stephens’ New York office. Stephens is based in Little Rock, Ark. Conte spent the past five years at Lazard. Before that, he spent about eight years at Cowen & Co. Other sales traders include Matt Delia, Bill Burchfield and Marylou Panza, at the managing director level; George Boudria and Michael Sheehan as senior vice presidents; and Jeffrey Castellano as vice president. The two position traders are managing directors Jimmy Law and Anthony Pignio.
FBR Capital Market recently hired a group of traders from Lazard Capital Markets. On the sales trading side, it brought on six traders, including Peter Cairney, Chris Mitrano, Trey Laird, David Jones and William Cantor. All previously worked at Lazard for four to six years. Cairney, Mitrano, Laird and Jones are based in New York. Cantor is based in Boston. FBR also hired three position traders, including Jason Lanzetta, who spent four years at Lazard Capital Markets.
Steven Lachenauer joined Cannacord Genuity as a sales trader in the Canadian broker’s New York office. Lachenauer previously spent about eight years as a sales trader at Lazard Capital Markets. Before that, he spent about four years at Lazard Frres & Co.
Chris Sexton joined Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. as a sales trader in the firm’s new Denver office. Sexton, a 20-year trading industry veteran, spent about five months this year as a financial advisor in Merrill Lynch’s Greenwood Village, Colo., branch. Before that, he spent nine years at research boutique Wedge Partners, in Greenwood Village, as a sales trader.
Tara Horton joined investment adviser Delta Asset Management in Memphis in client relations, portfolio management and trading. Horton previously spent 25 years as a Nasdaq market maker at Morgan Keegan & Company.
Chris Hempstead joined KCG Holdings, formerly Knight Capital Group, to head its exchange-traded funds sales team. Hempstead previously worked at WallachBeth Capital as director of ETF execution for about two years. He joined KCG following the recent departures of senior ETF team members Reginald Browne, Eric Lichtenstein and Darren Taube.
Veteran options trading executive Michael Khouw joined agency brokerage Dash Financial, a unit of Electronic Brokerage Systems LLC, as a derivatives strategist. He works in the Chicago-based firm’s New York office. Prior to joining Dash Financial, Khouw previously worked at CRT Capital in a trading/strategy capacity for about a year. Before that, he spent five years at Cantor Fitzgerald on the options desk.
Program trading veteran Doug Aronstein joined RBC Capital Markets in New York as a director responsible for program trading and electronic trading sales. Aronstein joined from Piper Jaffray’s New York office, where he spent about five years as head of the regional broker’s program desk. He has worked in portfolio trading for nearly 20 years, after getting his start at Merrill Lynch.
Matt Giller joined Elevation LLC as a sales trader in the Charlotte, N.C.-based firm’s Westport, Conn., office. Miller was previously a sales trader at Telsey Advisory Group for about two years.
Patrick Scanlan joined Macquarie Capital USA as head of the New York-based firm’s Chicago trading desk. Scanlan previously spent five years with J.P. Morgan Securities on its Chicago desk. Before that, he spent 11 years with Bear Stearns, which was acquired by J.P. Morgan in 2008.
Brian Foley joined dark pool start-up IEX Group as a business development officer. He previously held a similar role at Liquidnet.
Joe Peta joined Novus as a managing director in the New York-based investment consultancy’s San Francisco office. The former equity trading executive will work with Novus’ management team to build the firm’s West Coast presence and support existing client relationships. Peta’s last position on a trading desk was at Nomura Securities, in March 2011. Prior to Nomura, he was with UBS’s electronic trading group, where he conducted research on the firm’s trading flow and the value of its analytics.
Ian Burgess joined Drexel Hamilton as a managing director and head of equity sales and sales trading. Prior to joining Drexel, he served as senior vice president of equity sales at Maxim Group and as a member of its research committee. From 2005 to 2011, Burgess served as head of sales at Morgan Joseph TriArtisan.
John Adam joined execution management system vendor Portware as global head of product management. Adam previously spent 10 years at Liquidnet in research, strategy and product management roles. He replaces Harrell Smith, Portware’s former head of product strategy. Smith joined consultancy Lab49 this summer.
Adam Elegant joined Northern Trust bank and its broker-dealer unit in San Francisco as a registered representative. Elegant previously worked in a sales capacity at Goldman Sachs’ execution and clearing group for 12 years.
BTIG grabbed a team of traders, salesmen and technologists from ConvergEx Group for its portfolio and exchange-traded funds desk.
On the sales and trading side, the brokerage brought on Thomas Smykowski, a managing director, as head of global portfolio and ETF trading; Mark Perdigao, also a managing director, as head of global portfolio and ETF sales; and Craig Fishman, as a director in the group.
On the technology and analytics side, BTIG hired directors Dmitriy Teplinskiy and Debayan Bhaduri and senior vice president Alex Colea for its newly formed quantitative technology team. Smykowski spent eight years at ConvergEx. He created the firm’s ETF group in 2011. Perdigao managed ConvergEx’s business and product development efforts. Fishman spent eight years at ConvergEx as a portfolio trader. Teplinskiy spent three years at ConvergEx. Bhaduri joined from Fidessa. Colea spent two years at ConvergEx. The three technologists will work on algorithmic trading and smart routing development, a real-time ETF pricing engine and pre- and post-trade analytics.
John O’Donoghue joined Purchase, N.Y.-based brokerage OTR Global as director of equities. As such, O’Donoghue will lead the firm’s institutional sales representatives and sales traders in New York, Purchase, San Francisco and Boston. O’Donoghue was last with Cowen and Company in New York, where he served as head of equities for seven years. He left Cowen in early 2012. Before that, he was the co-head of U.S. cash trading at Credit Suisse for five years and a managing director at Schroders PLC for 17 years.
John Tiahnybik joined First Analysis Securities in Chicago as a sales trader. Tiahnybik spent the previous eight years on the trading desk at Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing’s office in Chicago. Before that, he spent about 12 years trading stocks and options at the Chicago Board Options Exchange for First Options. The onetime unit of Spear, Leeds & Kellogg was absorbed into GSEC after Goldman acquired Spear Leeds in 2000.
Ryan Noto joined Liquid Capital Securities as a derivatives sales trader in Chicago. He previously held a similar role with Wedbush Securities in Los Angeles for four years.
Patrick Kilcooley joined TJM Investments, formerly MND Partners, as a floor broker at the New York Stock Exchange. Kilcooley was previously a sales trader with Auriga, an institutional broker-dealer that focuses on mortgage-backed securities.
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