February may be the shortest month but it was packed with people moves in the Capital Markets arena. The second month of the year saw new hires and promotions inside Goldman Sachs, the SEC, UBS Wealth Management and other powerhouse firms. Check out Traders' On The Move gallery for the month of February 2016.
UBS Wealth Management has hired former Brevan Howard partner Vinay Pande as managing director and head of trading within its chief investment officer (CIO). Pande will form part of a four-person team within the CIO focusing on ultra-high net worth and alternatives. His team will include former Brevan colleagues Gerald Lucas, Yang Tang and Miguel Costa. Prior to joining Brevan in 2012 Pande was a managing director with Deutsche Bank between 2006 and 2012 after a stint as portfolio manager with hedge fund Caxton Associates. He has also held trading roles with Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and JP Morgan and served as World Bank CIO between 1985 and 1993.
JP Morgans global head of agency clearing and collateral management Emily Portney has left the investment bank in the latest senior management change within the derivatives unit of the US firm. Portney, who was latterly running agency clearing and collateral out of New York, left the bank last week, according to sources.
Dougal Brech, the co-head of EMEA prime services for Credit Suisse, left the bank after almost a decade to pursue "outside interests," according to an internal memo. The bank will conduct a search for Brechs replacement, the memo noted. Brech wanted to see his team through its transition to Dublin, which was announced earlier this week. Manish Vekaria, his co-head with a focus on Delate 1, trading and risk, will become CEO of the banks Dublin prime operations.
Goldman Sachs announced Friday that it has appointed Lucia Arienti to head up the EMEA prime brokerage consulting team. Arienti has been with the company for 13 years and previously worked in the prime brokerage sales team. She replaces William Douglas, who left to help start up a new European credit-focused hedge fund, Caius Capital.
Bond firm Siebert Brandford Shank hired Jeffrey Mahoney as managing director in institutional sales. Based in New York, the 30-year veteran was most recently executive director of municipal securities at Morgan Stanley. Prior to that, he was a director of municipal securities sales at Citigroup, as well as a partner at William E. Simon & Sons, where he was a municipal securities trader and a part of the institutional sales team.
Matthew Tagliani, a former executive director in CME Groups equity team, has joined European exchange traded product provider, Source UK Services, as a managing director. Tagliani, who left his role as an executive director for equity products at CME Group in London in December, joined Source UK Services earlier this month.
Rob Goralnick joined introducing broker SageTrader as an executive vice president selling execution and clearing services to hedge fund managers and institutional traders. Goralnick works Sage New York office. Prior to this he was at Knight/ KCG for almost 12 years selling electronic-trading services.
SEC Alumni and ex-Commissioner Dan Gallagher has been appointed as a non-executive director of the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE). Gallagher has also been appointed as Chair to the ISEs Rules Committee and will act as a legal, regulatory and capital markets expert on the ISEs Regulatory Panel.
Angela Stulley (center, of course) has left Trading Technologies for a new role as Director, Strategic Sales at ULLINK. Stulley was an original employee of Archipelago, and served as head of Global Sales for over 10 years. She reports to Jeff Gangl, MD of Americas here at ULLINK.
State Street managing director Yvonne Wong has joined China equity long/short hedge fund firm Elevation Capital. It was reported by HFM that Wong has been out of the industry since leaving State Street to take a sabbatical in March 2011 after a 12-month stint in charge of strategy and client relationships for enhanced custody in Asia Pacific. Prior to State Street she was COO with $350m event-driven hedge fund Thaddeus Capital between August 2008 and January 2010. Before that was head of Asia Pacific capital introductions at Merrill Lynch between February 2005 and June 2008.
Bats Global Markets has promoted Tony Barchetto to its pantheon of executive vice presidents. With the promotion Barchetto joins the Bats Executive Team, which includes CEO Chris Concannon, Bats Europe CEO Mark Hemsley and assorted executive vice presidents.
