Rob Hegarty joins Thomson Reuters as global head of market structure for the enterprise business. Hegarty, a 25-year veteran, will oversee the expansion of Thomson Reuters’ content and services worldwide, including Elektron, the vendor’s global ultra high-speed network for the financial markets. He reports to chief technology officer David Kelly.
Hegarty joins Thomson Reuters from the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp., where he ran its strategy, planning and marketing for nearly two years. Prior to DTCC, Hegarty spent 10 years at research consultancy TowerGroup, where he served as managing director of securities, investments and insurance. Before that, he held senior positions with Putnam Investments and Fidelity Investments in Boston, developing and maintaining trading systems.
Dan Weingarten joins agency broker Investment Technology Group as a managing director. He will work with broker-dealers, primarily to introduce retail order flow into ITG’s matching engine, POSIT. The 13-year veteran comes from Penson Financial, where he was co-director of global sales and marketing. Prior to Penson, Weingarten was co-head of sellside transaction sales at NYFIX until 2007 and worked in sales and trading at Island ECN and Credit Suisse. He reports to Hitesh Mittal.
Cyrus Pirasteh joins Wedbush Securities as the new head of equity trading, technology and operations. Pirasteh was previously at Goldman Sachs as head of U.S. Index volatility trading, and later co-headed equity derivatives trading for Goldman in Japan.
Giles Castle joined agency brokerage MPS Global Securities as head of electronic trading sales. Castle was previously a senior vice president in the institutional equity product department at MF Global.
Peter Greene was promoted to managing partner at Fusion Analytics, a research and trading firm based in New York. Greene, a 25-year veteran, oversees all trading and operations, plus the New York office. Greene, a longtime market maker and trader at Fidelity Capital Markets and MKM Partners, respectively, has been at Fusion for four years. He reports to Craig Dougherty, the firm’s chief operating officer. Fusion Analytics has eight sales traders in New York, Dallas and Coral Springs, Fla.
Wunderlich Securities moved to a new office in Boston, at 260 Franklin St. The research and trading firm has five sales traders and two market makers in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Denver and St. Louis.
Brad Acker joins RBC Capital Markets as vice president in sales for the U.S. electronic trading group. Acker, a seven-year veteran, was previously with Rafferty Capital Markets, where he spent two years in equity sales and trading. Acker also worked at Bear Stearns for four years. He reports to Brian Suth, head of U.S. electronic trading sales.
Mike Plunkett joins the board of directors at Firm58, a provider of financial management software for brokerage firms. Plunkett, with more than 25 years’ experience, was president of Instinet North America from 2002 until 2008. Earlier in his career, Plunkett was co-head of trading at Instinet subsidiary Lynch, Jones & Ryan. The rest of the five-person board consists of Jim Moran, partner at North Bridge Venture Partners; Adam Koopersmith, partner at New World Ventures; Firm58 CEO Nick Fera; and Firm58 co-founder Sam Mele.
Suzanne Raiola Antolini joins Dahlman Rose & Co. as a director and sales trader. Antolini was previously a sales trader at BTIG, where she spent six years. She reports to firm president Ernest J. Dahlman III.
Barclays Capital named Bill White head of equities electronic trading, a new position in New York. White previously ran BarCap’s designated-market-maker business at NYSE Euronext. He will oversee the development and sales of new products and client services in the U.S., Europe and Asia, drawing on his experience building and running options trading platforms, market making and structured products. He reports to both head of equities trading Joseph Corcoran and head of equities distribution Richard Cunningham.
The Security Traders Association promoted Joscelyn Wippern to vice president. In this role, she oversees marketing strategy for the association, heads its marketing committee and manages support for all existing STA committees. Wippern also runs STA’s office management, including infrastructure and variable labor. She has filled several staff and operating positions for the association. Prior to the STA, Wippern previously held a marketing position at ConvergEx Group.
Daniel Connell joins financial industry data vendor Correlix as chief executive officer. He’ll lead the firm’s global growth from his office in New York. Most recently, Connell served as executive in residence at private equity firm Spire Capital Partners. For more than 10 years prior to that, Connell served as executive managing director in the information services division at Standard & Poor’s. As part of that role, he also was chief executive of ComStock, a provider of global market data. Correlix, which has its headquarters in New York, develops latency measurement technology.
Bryan Harkins was promoted to chief operating officer at Direct Edge. Previously, he was head of sales and strategy. A 12-year veteran, Harkins replaces Bill Karsh, who left the firm at the end of 2010. In his new role, Harkins will be responsible for helping direct all operational affairs at Direct Edge.
Matt Richter joins MKM Partners in Austin, Texas, as an executive director and sales trader. Richter, a 13-year veteran, was previously with Westlake Securities, where he spent two years covering accounts. He began as a market maker and worked at Stifel Nicolaus and Hanifen, Imhoff early in his career.
Edward Boyle joins global market maker GETCO to focus on relationships with exchanges and trading platforms and to develop business strategies. Boyle, a 28-year veteran, previously ran NYSE Euronext’s options businesses. There, he was director of U.S. options exchanges, responsible for strategic development, market structure initiatives and the technology platform of the NYSE Arca Options exchange. Prior to joining NYSE Euronext in 2007, he was a vice president and director of business development, equity derivatives, at TD Securities.
Hudson Securities hired three industry veterans with extensive institutional relationships in Boston to open an office there. Hudson hired sales traders Edward A. Salmon, Sean P. Silvia, as well as research salesman Donald G. Scammell III. All three have more than 25 years of experience. Salmon and Silvia join Hudson from Jefferies & Co., where they served as senior vice presidents in equity sales and trading. Scammell was previously a managing director at Raymond James Financial.
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