After several months of high profile defections in both the U.S. and London, including stars such as Scott Bacigalupo, the firm’s head of Americas cash equity sales and trading, has now hired almost two dozen sales traders and others in equity sales over the last several weeks, according to a report in the Financial News. The report said that the bulge firm has grabbed staff from its rivals including Barclays, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley, citing people familiar with the situation.
The new hires in the U.S. include: Anthony Buoscio, sales trader; Mike Marco, healthcare equity trader; Scott Smith, head of specialty sales; Matt Brady, swaps trader; Puneet Pardani, sales trader;Tom O’Brien, Canada equity trader; Pranay Oberoi, equity sales; Michel Romano, equity derivatives sales; Ryan Lee, electronic sales trader; Michael Bogorad, sales trader; Alex Goodman, consumer equity trader; Adam Kravetz, COO for global execution services.
In the London office, the firm brought on: Ulick Burke, head of U.K. institutional sales; Walter Entholzer, covering the German market; Cedric Van der Haert, covering Belgium and the Netherlands; Georgio Papadokotsolis, covering emerging market equities; Alan Davies, global head of financials specialist sales (relocating to London from New York); Jeremy Elster, industrials specialist sales team; Tan Phull, head of equities electronic sales trading for EMEA; Michaela Kraenzle, portfolio products; Gurjeet Kundi, portfolio products; Valery Gerber, cash equities sales; Marco Schaerer, derivative sales; Matthias Klein, derivatives sales.
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