Peter Cocuzza joins Vandham Securities, a service-disabled veteran-owned brokerage, as director of business development. Cocuzza, a 30-year veteran of the trading markets, will be responsible for expanding and developing senior client relationships in both equities and fixed income. Prior to Vandham, he was with Stone Toro Asset Management in Princeton, N.J., as a vice president of business development. Cocuzza has also been an equity trader at Oppenheimer Funds, where he spent nine years, and at Mitchell Hutchins/PaineWebber, where he spent 20 years on both the buyside and sellside.
Gerard Sweeney joined Cantor Fitzgerald as a sales trader in the broker’s San Francisco office. Sweeney has worked as a sales trader at a variety of firms in San Francisco since the late 1990s, including B. Riley, Leerink Swann, Stifel Nicolaus and Legg Mason.
Scott Barraclough joined Irvine, Calif.-based Ascendiant Capital Markets as head of institutional trading in the broker-dealer’s Highlands Ranch, Colo., office. Barraclough was previously a sales trader at D.A. Davidson in Denver for 10 years.
Kim Opiatowski joined the Vertical Group in New York as an analyst on the broker’s event-driven/special situations desk. Opiatowski previously worked in a similar capacity at Louis Capital Markets in New York.
John Dunfee joined BestVest Investments in suburban Philadelphia as a sales trader. Dunfee was previously a partner at JFD Securities in New Jersey for eight years.
Brett Fitzgerald rejoined Dawson James Securities in Boca Raton, Fla., as a sales trader. Just prior, Fitzgerald worked as a sales trader at Livingston Monroe Capital Group, also in Boca Raton. He worked for Dawson James in 2008 and 2009 as well.
Fred Federspiel joined CyberKey Data Security as its chief executive officer. Federspiel was one of the founders and heads of Pipeline Trading, which was subject to scandal in 2011. He was fined $100,000 and admitted no wrongdoing in the Pipeline case. CyberKey enables individuals and small businesses to create a personal layer of security around sensitive data.
Jay Biancamano has helped co-founded startup Hoyvin, a vendor that filters data and information in social media for traders. He is also the startup’s chief executive officer. Biancamano was a former marketing official at a number of electronic brokerages, including Liquidnet and Aritas. Hoyvin’s other co-founder is John Halloran, a former technology executive at Liquidnet.
Texas-based Esposito Securities has hired Sanjeev Sunder as a sales trader in its Dallas office. Sunder, a 15-year professional, will cover quant and index hedge funds. He is also charged with driving new institutional business based on his relationships in Canada. He spent the last three years at Cormark Securities and prior to that was at BMO-both in Toronto. He reports to Erik Johnson, head of institutional sales trading.
Joe D’amico joined Ameriprise Financial Services as a financial planner in Plano, Texas. He is also studying under the certificate program in financial planning at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. D’Amico was formerly a sales trader with Cantor Fitzgerald in Dallas.
Veteran Chicago Board Options Exchange floor broker and market maker Mark Oakley joined TJM Investments on the CBOE floor as a strategist, trader and institutional account manager. Oakley has held similar positions on the CBOE floor at a number of small brokerages in the past four years. Prior to the financial crisis, he worked on the floor for Citi for three years and Fleet Securities for seven years. Before that, he spent 23 years as a floor broker and market maker at the CBOE.
Mischler Financial, a service-disabled veteran-owned brokerage, promoted Joseph Digiammo to head of equities for the firm. DiGiammo, a 20-year industry veteran who previously held senior equities sales/trading roles for Morgan Stanley, UBS and Susquehanna Investment Group, joined Mischler in 2012 as a managing director in connection with the launch of the firm’s Boston office. In his new role, DiGiammo will oversee Mischler’s equities sales trading team and coordinate the firm’s initiatives across the firm’s domestic and international equities execution platform. He reports to Mischler Financial CEO Dean Chamberlain.
Bill Kavaler joined Olivetree USA as an analyst, trader and portfolio manager on the broker’s event desk in New York. Kavaler has held similar positions since the 1990s in New York and London at Commerzbank, Socit Gnrale, Oscar Gruss and an assortment of proprietary trading shops.
Tom Kane joined S.J. Levinson & Sons as a sales trader in Purchase, N.Y. Kane was previously a New York Stock Exchange floor broker at MND Partners. Before that, he spent 26 years as a sales trader on both the single-stock and program desks at Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan.
Maxwell Weber joined independent broker-dealer LPL Financial in San Diego as a licensed trader and internal product consultant. Weber previously spent four and a half years as an institutional trader with back-office duties at Capstone Investments in San Diego.
Global Trading Systems has hired Steven Reich as head of FX and Commodity Liquidity Solutions. Prior to this, Reich ran FX Clearing for the CME Group after CME acquired Pivot Solutions, where he was chief revenue officer and head of sales and business development.
Terry Flynn joined Charles River Development as a sales manager in the firm’s New York office. Prior to Charles River, he was with S3, a provider of data analytics and smart routing. Before that, Flynn spent two years at SunGard and spent the preceding five years at Fidessa.
Canadian Michael Thom joined Obelysk Funds in Ontario. Thom, a 6 year veteran, joins the private equity firm as a trader. Prior to that, Thom spent the last five years at Genus Capital Management, where he was most recently head of trading.
George Jennison joined Richmond, Va.-based financial services consultant Oyster Consulting as an associate director. His role is to help the firm’s clients trade more efficiently and effectively while reducing operational risk, according to the company, as well as meeting regulatory reporting requirements. Jennison most recently worked in retail brokerage at Wells Fargo Advisors. His last trading role was in 2008 as head of retail equity trading operations at Wachovia Securities. .
Cantor Fitzgerald Canada hired two sales traders in Toronto-Brennan Howard, as a managing director, and Kristofer Fisher, as a vice president. Both joined from Stifel Nicolaus Canada. Prior, Howard held positions at Raymond James, Jennings Capital and Galileo Equity Management. Fisher held positions at Wellington West Capital and D&D Securities prior to Stifel.
BCS, the largest trader of equities and derivatives on the Russian stock exchange, has hired Gareth Johnson as senior trader in its London office. Johnson will relocate to London and support BCS’s equities team sales trading efforts and start up the equity trading arm of the international business. He comes from Russia, where he spent the last seven years as senior equity trader at Troika Dialog. Prior to that, he was head of equity trading at both Alfa Bank and Uralsib Capital.
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