Jon Block joins Nomura Securities as head of international trading in the Americas. Block, a 16-year professional, will act as a sales trader and risk manager and is charged with growing the firm’s trading business in Asia, Japan, Latin America and Canada. He spent 10 years trading international and financial equities at Goldman Sachs and also ran UBS’s Canadian trading and sales trading group. He reports to Ciaran O’Kelly, head of equities, Americas.
Stephen Kay of Knight Capital Group was named president of the Security Traders Association of New York for 2010-2011. His one-year term began Aug. 1. This is Kay’s second stint as STANY president; he also served in 2007-2008. His focus will be on educating members and helping them to understand new regulations and other issues that affect trading and markets. Kay is responsible for client service and relationship management for Knight’s broker-dealer business for equities and options.
Gleacher & Co. Securities hired six pros. Joining the firm as senior equity traders are Todd Leone and Peter Treacy from Cowen and Co. At Cowen, Leone was co-head of health-care trading. Treacy was a senior health-care trader specializing in medical technology and services.
Joining Gleacher as sales traders are Ned Bolcar, Robert Baisch, Paul Kent and Jonathan Hanes. Bolcar and Baisch each joined the firm from ICAP. Prior to that they were sales traders at Jefferies & Co. Kent was most recently at Pali Capital and, before that, was a long-tenured sales trader at Jefferies. Hanes most recently worked at Execution Noble.
Two veterans joined Morgan Joseph as two sales traders. Todd Clark, most recently with Nollenberger Capital Partners, and Gregory Pizzitola, most recently with Brean Murray, Carret & Co., joined Morgan Joseph’s California and New York offices, respectively. Clark has 27 years of securities business experience. For the past five years, he was head of equity capital markets for San Francisco-based Nollenberger , where he headed a team of 20 salespeople, research analysts and traders. Pizzitola, who began his Wall Street career in 1983 as a block trader with Lazard Frères & Co., was most recently head of institutional trading at Brean Murray, which he joined in 2005.
Matthew Harris joins Madison Williams as director of institutional equity trading in the firm’s New York office. Harris, 36, comes from Tuohy Brothers Investment Research, a specialist energy research and trading firm, where he served as head of trading. Prior to that, Harris helped lead the development of the trading team at FBR Capital Markets’ New York office, supervising the health-care and utility sectors. He also spent eight years at Morgan Stanley, where he traded a variety of stocks in the technology, health-care and energy industries.
Harris’ hire is expected to expand Madison Williams’ market-making capabilities and allow the firm to advance its international trading platform.
Danielle Caporale joins Accenture’s Capital Markets practice in its core trading and services group. Caporale, a 20-year veteran, spent most of her career on the buyside in trading. She ran Deutsche Bank’s investment management trading desk and also worked at SAC Capital and Gabelli & Co., followed by stints at the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.
Robert Thompson, chief operating officer of Fidessa’s sellside business for the last 14 years, was appointed president of its North American buyside business, which includes the firm’s LatentZero front-office suite. Thompson, a 23-year market veteran who has spent the last 17 years at Fidessa, will focus on project management, account management and operations. He reports to Paul Nokes, chief executive of global buyside operations.
Electronic trading company Getco has tapped New York Stock Exchange executive Todd Abrahallto head its new designated market-making business on the stock exchange floor. Abrahall, who served as the exchange’s liaison with the floor’s specialists, will be responsible for managing nearly 20 Getco employees and buying and selling securities. Previously, he was working with the NYSE as vice president. Abrahall has also worked as president of Susquehanna International Group’s NYSE specialist operations, overseeing the firm’s presence on the exchange floor.
Michael Cattell joins interconnection and co-location provider Telx as vice president of financial markets. Cattell, a 17-year veteran, will focus on the company’s financial markets business line, including solution and market development. Prior to Telx, he was vice president of global hosting solutions for BT Radianz. He also served as vice president of global markets technology infrastructure for State Street Corp., where he managed its global IT staff, server management, data base administration and application support of the company’s transaction and information platform. He reports to Brad Hokamp, chief marketing officer.
Sean Westley has joined ConvergEx Group’s prime brokerage business, NorthPoint Trading Partners, as vice president of sales in New York. Westley, a 12-year professional, has spent his career in various brokerage capacities at UBS, Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs. Most recently he served as an executive director in UBS’s prime services division. He reports to Ben Brown, managing director and head of prime brokerage sales at NorthPoint.
ConvergEx also hired four electronic traders for its NorthPoint office in Atlanta.
Michael McLoughlin and Jay Mercier join the electronic execution group, and Raoul Scott and Erik Fuchsjoin the client serving team. McLoughlin comes from Prudential Equity Group, Mercier from YieldQuest Advisors, Scott arrives from ConvergEx’s Eze Castle Software, and Fuchs hails from Merrill Lynch. The four report to Nick DeJarnette, managing director of operations and trading.
Michael Nethercott joins BTIG as a director in equity sales trading. Nethercott, a 12-year veteran, comes from Lighthouse Financial Group, an agency brokerage that recently closed. Prior to Lighthouse, Nethercott worked at Bear Stearns for eight years, where he helped start an internal agency-only desk for the firm’s clients. He reports to Richard Blank, global head of equities.
Also joining the firm’s Boston office and focusing on prime brokerage are Mike McCuin and Adrianne Schulte. McCuin, a 10-year veteran, comes from Kaufman Rossin Fund Services and will focus on prime brokerage sales. Schulte will focus on prime brokerage relationship management and most recently was in J.P. Morgan’s prime brokerage client services group in New York. They report to Justin Press, co-head of prime brokerage.
Gerald Domanski joins SJ Levinson & Sons’ Red Bank, N.J. office as senior managing director and head of international sales and trading. Domanski, who has two decades of experience, will look to expand the firm’s international equity sales and trading unit. Previously, he worked at BTIG for five years as a managing director in the international equities department and served two years as senior managing director and head of international equities at Schwab Capital Markets. He reports to chief executive Matthew Levinson.
Lesley Ann Bunim joins RS Investments as an equity research analyst for the New York- and San Francisco-based firm. Bunim, a 10-year pro, will focus on providing research on the retail, restaurant and gaming sectors. She previously worked at J.H. Whitney Investment Management as an investment analyst for the company’s hedge fund, covering public equity and debt. She reports to Allison Thacker, managing director for RS Investments’ growth team.
Rob Garrett joins Electronic Brokerage Systems, the U.S. broker-dealer arm of Belzberg Technologies, as director of sales, execution services. The firm provides sponsored access and direct market access to the protected U.S. equities and options markets. Garrett, a 28-year veteran, was with OES MarketGroup for the last four years. At EBS, he will work with the firm’s Canadian team to sell electronic trading solutions. He reports to Andrew Brenner, president of U.S. brokerage operations.
Maxim Group hired four international trading specialists for its global equities business. Thomas Giordano, a 25-year professional, joins as managing director and head of the global equities trading group. Previously, Giordano spent a decade trading American Depositary Receipts and non-U.S. exchange-listed foreign stocks at Fleet Trading. Charles Ferrera, a 10-year veteran, has spent his career trading foreign securities, beginning at Bear Stearns in 1998 and also at Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, Hill Thompson Magid and Lighthouse Financial. Peter Murgolo joins from Lighthouse Financial, where he traded foreign equities for two years. He has also done stints as a prop trader at Trillium Trading and traded ADRs and non-U.S. exchange-listed foreign stocks at Hill Thompson Magid. Jackson Platsky, a five-year pro, comes to Maxim after spending time trading ADRs and international equities as a private wealth manager at Investec Ernst & Company, an international specialist bank.
Christopher McGuigan joins Tullett Prebon Information as head of Americas for the real-time price information group. McGuigan, a 15-year pro, is responsible for growing firm’s business across the Americas. He previously worked at MarketAxess for nine years, where he managed the data services business. He reports to Frank Desmond, managing director and global head of sales.
David Mudiejoins joins London-based Penson Financial Services as head of sales. Mudie, a 15-year veteran, comes from MF Global, where he worked one year in prime brokerage sales. Prior to that, he worked in sales and leadership roles at Newedge and other clearing firms. He reports to Penson chief executive Clive Triance.
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