Industry veteran George Jennison joined Richmond, Va.-based financial services consultant Oyster Consulting as an associate director. His role is to help the firm’s clients trade more efficiently and effectively while reducing operational risk, according to the company, as well as meeting regulatory reporting requirements. Jennison most recently worked in retail brokerage at Wells Fargo Advisors. His last trading role was in 2008 as head of retail equity trading operations at Wachovia Securities. He began his career as a Nasdaq market maker in the 1980s at Robinson-Humphrey and Lehman Brothers.
Longtime equity trading executive Joe Guarino joined Wells Fargo Advisors in Milltown, NJ, as a personal banker/financial advisor. Guarino previously spent eight years at Raymond James & Associates as head trader. Before that, he worked for 18 years in equity trading at Merrill Lynch.
Texas-based Esposito Securities has hired Sanjeev Sunder as a sales trader in its Dallas office. Sunder, a 15-year professional, will cover quant and index hedge funds. He is also charged with driving new institutional business based on his relationships in Canada. He spent the last three years at Cormark Securities and prior to that was at BMO-both in Toronto. He reports to Erik Johnson, head of institutional sales trading.
Mischler Financial, a service-disabled veteran-owned brokerage, promoted Joseph DiGiammo to head of equities for the firm. DiGiammo, a 20-year industry veteran who previously held senior equities sales/trading roles for Morgan Stanley, UBS and Susquehanna Investment Group, joined Mischler in 2012 as a managing director in connection with the launch of the firm’s Boston office. In his new role, DiGiammo will oversee Mischler’s equities sales trading team and coordinate the firm’s initiatives across the firm’s domestic and international equities execution platform.
Cantor Fitzgerald Canada hired two sales traders in Toronto-Brennan Howard, as a managing director, and Kristofer Fisher, as a vice president. Both joined from Stifel Nicolaus Canada. Before Stifel, Howard held positions at Raymond James, Jennings Capital and Galileo Equity Management. Fisher held positions at Wellington West Capital and D&D Securities prior to his term at Stifel.
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