Robert Veek has been promoted to managing director and head of institutional trading at Summer Street Research. He will continue to cover accounts for the Boston-based health care boutique, which has three traders in Boston and three in New York. Prior to joining Summer Street last year, Veek spent five years at White Cap Trading. That came after 13 years at Fidelity Capital Markets as a trader and market maker in both Boston and New York. He reports to Al Sollami, the company’s chief executive.
Ryan Peterson joins agency-only broker Cheevers & Co. as its new chief compliance officer. A seven-year veteran, Peterson was previously CCO for Fox River Execution Technology for just over a year. Prior to that, he spent four years as an attorney and compliance consultant at Regulation Technologies. He was also an investigator for the Chicago Board Options Exchange. He now leads a three-person compliance team at Cheevers. He reports to president Laura Yunger.
Buckman, Buckman & Reid, a full-service brokerage firm, added an institutional trading group to its Shrewsbury, N.J. office. The group was previously with Seton Securities. Bob Mezey, a 35-year veteran, heads broker-dealer sales. Veterans Ron D’Angelo and Tony Pontecorvo run trading. Also joining the firm as sales traders are veterans Frank Passalaqua, previously with Sterne Agee; Peter Battaglia, previously with the Vertical Group; Chuck Esposito; and Tony Lopez. The firm clears through RBC Capital Markets.
Glenn Koh joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch to lead equity derivatives trading in the Americas. Koh spent 14 years at Morgan Stanley, most recently in charge of trading U.S. equity index derivatives. Koh reports to Henry Mulholland, head of Americas equities, and Fabrizio Gallo, global head of equities.
Jim Kelly joins Citigroup Global Markets’ capital introduction group as a director in New York. A 30-year veteran, Kelly was previously at Morgan Stanley, where he headed its transition management group in the Americas. Prior to moving upstairs, he spent 28 years on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, where he ran his own firm. Kelly was also a floor official and board member of the Alliance of Floor Brokers. He reports to Beth Neely, who heads capital introduction in prime finance for the Americas at Citi.
John Hickey joins the Buckingham Research Group as a senior sales trader in New York. Hickey, a 22-year veteran, was previously with Sanford C. Bernstein, where he spent 11 years. Prior to that, he worked at Cantor Fitzgerald. He reports to Tony Sutera, who runs Buckingham’s equity trading desk.
Minority brokerage firm Williams Capital Group opened a Boston office, hiring industry veterans Rick Gill and Ken Beaulieu as sales traders. Gill, a 27-year veteran, joins from Sterne Agee, where he spent four years. A past president of the Boston Securities Traders Association, Gill also worked at Oppenheimer & Co., Gruntal & Co. and Everen Securities. Beaulieu, a 13-year veteran and a former board member of the BSTA Foundation, joins Williams from Avondale Partners, where he spent four years after spending much of his career at Banc of America Securities. Both report to Stephen Carl and Michael Ferry, co-heads of equity sales and trading.
Joseph Benanti has been promoted to director of sales at Rosenblatt Securities in New York. Benanti, a 30-year veteran, joined Rosenblatt as a salesman nearly five years ago after a long career as a trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He worked for several independent brokerages, including his own, and was also a floor governor. Benanti reports to Joe Gawronski, the firm’s president and chief operating officer.
Canaccord Genuity has named Matthew Gaasenbeek president of the capital markets division of Canaccord Genuity. Gaasenbeek, who joined the firm 18 years ago, has led the firm’s North American equities group for the last four years. In his new role, he will manage all aspects of the Canadian capital markets business, including investment banking, research, institutional sales and trading, fixed income and international trading. Prior to this, he was head of equities at Canaccord Genuity. Before Canaccord, Gaasenbeek worked as a management consultant at PriceWaterhouse.
Allison Jacobs joins Citi as a relationship manager covering equities and options in its broker-dealer sales group. Jacobs, a 12-year veteran, comes from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where she worked in the Global Execution Services group. Before that, she worked at Credit Suisse in the Advanced Execution Services group. She reports to Tom Fasano, who heads U.S. broker-dealer sales.
Robert Weinstein joins Tullett Prebon as head of institutional equity sales and trading. A 19-year veteran of the industry, he was previously managing director for institutional sales and trading at Dahlman Rose & Co. Prior to that, he oversaw a team of sales traders at Lighthouse Financial Group. Weinstein spent four years at Bear Stearns, where he was senior managing director for institutional sales and trading. Weinstein reports to Tom Bovitz, a senior managing director at Tullett Prebon.
Miley Nakamura joins electronic trading provider TORA as a sales trader in Los Angeles. Nakamura, a 12-year veteran, was director of Japanese equities sales trading at UBS in Japan. Prior to joining the Asian-based TORA, she did stints at Citi and Goldman Sachs. She reports to managing directors Khahlil Kirtman and Rob Santos.
Capstone Investments hires executives Alan Ebright, Douglas Livingston and Mark Sylvestri. Ebright, a 16-year veteran, joins as senior vice president institutional sales and comes from Miller Tabak & Co. Livingston, a 10-year veteran, comes on board as chief compliance officer from IXE Securities. Sylvestri, a 12-year pro, joins as an equity analyst from SES Partners. All three report to president Steven Capozza.
Mike Stewart has become the sole head of UBS’s global equities division. He was formerly head of global equities at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and joined UBS in July as co-head of that bank’s global equities division. He assumed the role of sole head following the resignations of the other global equities chiefs, Yassine Bouhara and Francois Gouws, in the wake of the bank’s unauthorized trading scandal. Stewart reports to Carsten Kengeter, chief executive officer of UBS’s investment bank.
Alan Rubenfeld joins Boston-based QuantShares as director of sales to promote its market-neutral ETFs. Rubenfeld has spent more than 20 years in portfolio trading and most recently worked at UBS, after a nearly two-year stint at BNP Paribas. He spent more than 10 years at Deutsche Bank. He will work out of New York. Rubenfeld reports to Richard Block, QuantShares’ chief administrative officer and director of marketing. Block is the former head trader at Putnam Investments.
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