Andrew Howell joins BIDS Trading as vice president of sales for the West Coast. Howell, a 25-year veteran, was a market maker on the Chicago Board of Trade and Pacific Stock Exchange before going into brokerage sales. For the last two years, he was vice president of sales in Fidelity’s electronic brokerage services group and before that was managing director of sales at Pipeline, establishing its San Francisco office. Howell reports to Marybeth Shay, senior managing director in sales and marketing.
Meridian Equity Partners hired six sales traders and one researcher for its New York office. Veterans Louise Hatcher, Adam Gershuny, Chris Alegre, John Guisio and Michael Herman join as senior institutional traders. Separately, Joe Niles, a 10-year professional, joins as head of derivatives trading and as a sales trader.
Brian Lian, a 15-year veteran, joins as a managing director and leads the firm’s health-care research team. Previously, Lian was an executive director and senior biotech analyst at both Oppenheimer & Co. and CIBC world markets. All report to senior managing partner Jonathan Acquafredda.
Kurt Zyla joins Russell Investments as regional director for listed derivatives. Zyla, 21-year veteran, is responsible for portfolio management, development and listing of new derivatives products, and increasing sales of existing Russell Index-based derivatives. Before, he was with BNY Mellon for nearly 20 years. He reports to Rolf Agather, head of index research and innovation.
Bill Lyons joins Chicago-based Lek Securities, an electronic order and clearing firm, as an institutional salesman. Lyons, an 11-year professional, has done stints as an equity sales and equities options trader on both the buyside and sellside-including Galleon Group and Sedna Capital Management-and was most recently at Rafferty Capital Markets.
Marcus Marcuson joins SJ Levinson & Sons as a managing director in quantitative analytic sales. Marcuson, a 13-year pro, looks to boost the firm’s trade-cost analysis software sales on the West Coast after spending the last six years at software provider EST Technologies. He reports to Matthew Celebuski, head of quantitative analytics.
Ronan Walsh joins ConvergEx Group as vice president of global transition management. Walsh, a 15-year veteran based in Sydney, Australia, is responsible for transition management services throughout Australia and Asia. Previously, he built the Australian debt securities management business at Russell Investment Management and did a stint at Citi Global Markets as a transition manager. He reports to Kal Bassily, who heads the group.
Dan Weisberg and Michael Le Lion join software and data analysis vendor Panopticon. Weisberg, 25-year pro, is a senior vice president of international sales and comes from Bishopsgate Financial. Le Lion, a 10-year veteran, joins as vice president for North American business development and sales, and will also focus on order and execution management systems sales in Europe. Prior, he spent 11 years at software vendor Sybase managing client relationships.
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