Nomura Securities International, the U.S. broker-dealer division of the Nomura Group, hired Ciaran O’Kelly as managing director and head of equities, Americas.
O’Kelly’s responsibilities include all liquid markets, derivatives and prime services at NSI. He is based in New York City and reports to Shigesuke Kashiwagi, chairman, president and chief executive of NSI and globally to Rachid Bouzouba, managing director and head of equities.
O’Kelly joins NSI from Bank of America, where he was head of global equities for seven years. Prior to that, O’Kelly worked at Smith Barney/Citigroup for 11 years, finally as head of equity trading. O’Kelly hails from Ireland.
