TRADERS ON THE MOVE: Canadian Brokers Staff Up in the US

David Porcelli joined BMO Capital Markets as a managing director and co-head of U.S. equity products. Porcelli was most recently head of America’s equity distribution at Barclays Capital. Prior to that, he spent nearly two decades in equity trading at Lehman Brothers. At BMO Capital Markets, Porcelli will co-head U.S. equities with Alan Tannenbaum, who joined the bank in 2010. Both will report to Mike Miller, BMO managing director and head of equity products.

Genemarie Eguilior  joined INTL FCStone Securities’ trading desk supervision team.  Eguilior came from Guzman & Company where she most recently was the chief compliance officer and also spent the last 15 years as head of domestic equity trading.  She will be based out of INTL’s Miami office.

Sanjay Kothari joined RBC Capital Markets as head of trading technology for the global arbitrage desk. He was previously at Morgan Stanley and Citi in a similar capacity.

Abbe Rice joined Merrill Lynch as a registered rep in the broker’s Jacksonville, Fla., office. Rice was formerly a sales trader at C.L. King & Associates. She spent 16 years as a sales trader at Bear Stearns.

Nate Sand joined Lake Street Capital Markets in Minneapolis as a vice president and an institutional equity salesperson. Sand previously worked at Piper Jaffray & Co. as a market maker, trading consumer, technology and financial stocks.