Jim Gallagher joined BMO Capital Markets as a managing director and head of U.S. equity sector trading. Gallagher was most recently the head of sector trading for energy, utilities, healthcare, materials and MLP at Barclays Capital. BMO also hired three sales traders: David Matlow, Daniel Mara, and Ashley Amo. Matlow also came from Barclays, where he was a liquid markets sales trader. Mara was most recently a sales trader at Citigroup Global Markets, where he handled hedge fund clients. Amo was most recently a sales trader at Goldman Sachs.
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. hired a team of three market makers in exchange-traded funds that previously worked for KCG Holdings. The group—Reginald Browne, Eric Lichtenstein and Darren Taube—has worked together for about six years years, first at Newedge, then at Knight, which became KCG Holdings after its recent merger with Getco.
Susan Shilling joined Tripleshot as a relationship manager in San Francisco. The Boston-based company plans to open an alternative trading system for the buyside. Shilling previously worked in a similar capacity at Xpert Financial, a San Mateo, Calif.-based operator of a trading system for private securities. Before that she was in institutional sales at Barclays Capital.
Pat Regan joined Conifer Securities in San Francisco as a sales trader. She previously worked for Fidelity Capital Markets and Bank of America Securities in San Francisco as a sales trader.
Trading operations veteran Don Camillo joined investment bank NewCap Partners as a principal in charge of its financial services coverage. NewCap Partners focuses on middle market companies with M&A and capital requirements. Formerly, Camillo was in charge of separate account trading operations at Natixis Global Associates. Before that, Camillo directed trading operations at Charles Schwab.
