>> Cowen Group hires two longtime partners-Keith Kurzner and Kyle Solomon-to head its options and event-driven strategies group. They will be responsible for growing the firm’s presence in institutional options and launching its event-driven strategies group, which will include both equity and options sales and trading. They will be based in New York and will report to Tom O’Mara, Cowen’s head of institutional derivatives. Kurzner and Solomon have been business partners for 17 years. They recently worked at RBC Capital Markets and, prior to that, at CIBC/Oppenheimer, where they were responsible for establishing and leading similar businesses.
>> CastleOak Securities has expanded its equity sales and trading division with Patricia Koetzner and Mitchell Ginsberg. Koetzner joins as managing director and head equity trader. She will focus on new business generation. She was previously a vice president of Barclays Capital and was responsible for expanding revenue in equity trading. She is a former Nasdaq market maker for Neuberger Berman, Gruntal & Co. and Dominick & Dominick. A 20-year veteran, Ginsberg joins as a managing director and equity trader covering institutional accounts. He was previously a vice president of equity research sales and trading at Rodman & Renshaw. Earlier in his career, Ginsberg was a principal market maker and traded distressed stocks. He worked at Citigroup Global Markets, TD Waterhouse Capital Markets and Neuberger Berman.
>> Jon Fatica joins execution management systems vendor TradingScreen as co-head of analytics, based out of the firm’s New York office. Fatica comes from Investment Technology Group, where he had been developing that firm’s transaction-cost analysis unit since 2002. He has provided thought leadership and expertise to the buyside marketplace for more than 300 institutions, leading a staff of consultants, analysts, client-support and technology professionals. Prior to joining ITG, Fatica managed consulting engagements in the financial services practice for KPMG. His career also included stints at J.P. Morgan, First Boston, Bankers Trust and Lazard Asset Management, in positions including risk management, portfolio management and fixed income trading.
>> Annamarie O’Neill joins RBC Capital Markets as a director, in the firm’s U.S. equities sales and trading group. O’Neill was previously the senior sales trader at Execution Noble. Before that, she spent 10 years as an institutional block trader and sales trader at Goldman Sachs. She reports to Michael Marrale, head of U.S. sales trading and desk sector strategy.
>> Stephen Parish joins privately owned investment bank Dahlman Rose & Co. as managing director for equity capital markets. Parish, a 25-year veteran, previously spent two years at Cantor Fitzgerald, where he was a managing director and global head of equity capital markets. He also spent more than 20 years at Bear Stearns & Co., holding various senior management positions, including global head of the equity transactions group. He reports to head of equity capital markets Matthew Rovelli.
>> ConvergEx has names Michael Hutner and A.J. De Rosa as co-heads of global sales for the firm’s Eze Castle order management system. In their respective roles, De Rosa will focus on new client sales, while Hutner’s primary role is business development with existing clients. Based in New York, they report to chief executive Tom Gavin.
Hutner, who joined Eze Castle Software in 2000, was responsible for starting Eze’s client service office in New York and oversaw East Coast operations before being promoted to managing director of global business development in 2006. Before joining Eze, he was a senior associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers. De Rosa, who joined Eze Castle Software in 2002, has held various positions at the company, including head of new client sales for North America. Prior to joining Eze, De Rosa worked for Financial Models Co. and Thomson Financial.
>> Peter Cocuzza joins Stone Toro Asset Management in Princeton, N.J., as a vice president of business development. Cocuzza, a 28-year veteran, was previously an equity trader at Oppenheimer Funds, where he spent nine years. Before that, he traded at Mitchell Hutchins/PaineWebber, where he spent 20 years on both the buyside and sellside. He reports to Jeff Russo, Richard Jenkins and Michael Jarzyna, founders and portfolio managers previously with BlackRock.
>> Matt Simsic joins proprietary trading firm Eladian Partners as a partner and head trader. Previously, Simsic held senior trading and leadership positions at DRW Trading, Millennium Partners, Bear Stearns and Hull Trading. Simsic has more than 15 years of experience as a trader in a variety of countries and asset classes. The majority of his experience has been in the design, development and implementation of quantitative and technology-driven trading strategies in global equities and futures markets.
>> KeyBanc Capital Markets has transferred one sales trader to another office and added another. Aimee Spuller is moving to KeyBanc’s Chicago office and will continue to cover accounts in the Midwest and Southeast. Spuller, spent the last five years as a sales trader in Cleveland.
Also, Julie Waring has joined KeyBanc’s Cleveland office as a sales trader. Waring was previously an account executive at Bloomberg LLP in New York, where she covered accounts in the mid-Atlantic region for the last four years. Both Spuller and Waring report to Kevin Kruszenski, the firm’s national director of equity trading.
>> PMG Capital’s Daniel Kinsella has joins Emerging Growth Equities as managing director of capital markets. A 20-year trading veteran, Kinsella joined EGE on Aug. 1. Kinsella spent the majority of his career at Pennsylvania Merchant Group. He reports to Gregory Berlacher, EGE’s founder, president and chief executive officer.
>> Scott Wilson joins Themis Trading to cover accounts and to work on market structure issues for the Chatham, N.J.-based agency broker. Wilson, with more than 20 years’ experience, spent his last 11 years in electronic trading, including stints at Piper Jaffray and Vie Technologies, which Piper acquired in 2004. Prior to that, he worked as a Nasdaq market maker at Lehman Brothers, Needham and Morgan Stanley, where he traded technology stocks. He reports to founders Sal Arnuk and Joe Soluzzi.
>> Agency broker Instinet hires William McKeown as head of North American Sales for its Meet the Street corporate access group. McKeown, a 25-year pro, will focus on helping grow the corporate access business. Prior to Instinet, he served as a director in Knight Capital Group’s corporate access group. He reports to Dan Dykens, president of Meet the Street.
>> Kenneth Heath was elected honorary national vice president for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Heath, publisher of Traders Magazine, is a longtime supporter of the MDA, will continue to aid its research programs and initiatives in the New York tristate area. He started his involvement with the MDA 10 years ago, when he volunteered for its Wings Over Wall Street campaign after meeting Michael Beier of Credit Suisse. Beier passed away due to ALS in 2003. Heath continued his service with the organization since and has served on the MDA’s Wings Over Wall Street committee since 2006. Heath’s term started this past July and will end in July 2012.
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