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.
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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, New York-based brokerage OTR Global as director of equities. As such, O’Donogue will lead the firm’s institutional sales representatives and sales traders located 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 one-time 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.
