Imperial Capital is on a hiring spree. The firm recently added about a half dozen equities traders and sales executives.
Joining the Los Angeles based broker-dealer that specializes in distressed securities on the trading side is David Cooperman, formerly a distressed debt trader at UBS. On the sales side are Tony Greer, Tony Reiner, Philip Minardo, Yves Lefebvre, and Dustin Sanza.
Greer was most recently a sales trader at Dahlman Rose & Co. That firm was recently bought by Cowen & Co. Reiner spent the last few years at Cantor Fitzgerald as a sales trader. Minardo was a sales trader at Wall Street Access. Lefebvre worked both research sales and sales trading at Soelil Securities. Sanza worked on the research side at Wedbush Securities.
All hires will work in Imperial’s New York office except Sanza who is based in Boston.
The firm makes no distinction between sales traders and research sales executives, according to chief operating officer Mark Martis.
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Joe D’Amico joined Ameriprise Financial Services as an investment analyst in the firm’s Plano, Texas, branch. D’Amico previously spent about a dozen years on the program desk at Southwest Securities in Dallas. He is also studying for a Certificate in Financial Planning at Southern Methodist University.
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Gerald Casey joined Barclays Capital in New York on the program desk. Casey was previously in international portfolio sales at Nomura Securities.
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Guy Corcoran joined Sterne, Agee & Leach as a sales trader in the Birmingham, Alabama-based firm’s New York office. Corcoran previously worked in equity sales at Imperial Capital in New York. Corcoran had been a sales trader at Citigroup Global Markets and predecessor firm Salomon Smith Barney for about 16 years.
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Evan Karp joined options brokerage Macro Risk Advisors as a sales trader in New York. Karp was previously in research sales at BMO Capital Markets.