Chris Hempstead joined KCG Holdings, formerly Knight Capital Group, to head its exchange-traded funds sales team. Hempstead previously worked at WallachBeth Capital as director of ETF execution for about two years. He joined KCG following the recent departures of senior ETF team members Reginald Browne, Eric Lichtenstein and Darren Taube.
Veteran options trading executive Michael Khouw joined agency brokerage Dash Financial, a unit of Electronic Brokerage Systems LLC, as a derivatives strategist. He works in the Chicago-based firms New York office. Khouw previously worked at CRT Capital in a trading/strategy capacity for about a year. Before that, he spent five years at Cantor Fitzgerald on the options desk.
Program trading veteran Doug Aronstein joined RBC Capital Markets in New York as a director responsible for program trading and electronic trading sales. Aronstein joined from Piper Jaffrays New York office where he spent about five years as head of the regional brokers program desk. The executive has worked in portfolio trading for nearly 20 years, after getting his start at Merrill Lynch.
Matt Giller joined Elevation LLC as a sales trader in the Charlotte, NC-based firms Westport, CT. office. Miller was previously a sales trader at Telsey Advisory Group for about two years.
Patrick Scanlan joined Macquarie Capital USA as head of the New York-based firms Chicago trading desk. Scanlan previously spent five years with J.P. Morgan Securities on its Chicago desk. Before that he spent 11 years with Bear Stearns, which was acquired by J.P. Morgan in 2008.
