Cantor Fitzgerald grabbed three more exchange-traded funds traders from KCG Holdings. In addition to the three senior executives previously announced, Cantor hired Matthew Scorsune, Brad Kotler, and Aaron Kehoe. Scorsune spent about four years with KCG, formerly Knight Capital Group. Before that he worked for LaBranche Structured Products. Kotler spent about 18 months with KCG. Before that, he was with Marketaxess. Kehoe spent about four years with Knight. Before that, he was with Newedge.
Retail brokerage Capital Guardian hired Eric Engdahl and Anthony Camlin as managing directors of equity sales trading. They will be based in the Boston office of the Charlotte, NC-based firm. Both Engdahl and Camlin were most recently with Moors and Cabot in Boston trading equities on behalf of institutions. Before that, they were on the Boston Stock Exchange with Ward, Conary, & Murphy.
ConvergEx Group hired Oliver Baily for its exchange-traded funds and Miguel Ruiz for its program desk. Bailly joined as a senior vice president and head of the ETF desk. Ruiz joined as a senior vice president on the firm’s global portfolio desk. They are based in New York and report to James Bossert and Sean Wagner, co-heads of ConvergEx’s global portfolio and ETF execution business. Bailly was most recently at Citigroup, where he was a director and head of the firm’s ETF create/redeem trading desk. He also covered institutional clients on Citi’s program desk. Prior to that, Bailly spent eight years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch with primary responsibility for ETF creation/redemption as part of the non-dollar portfolio sales group. Ruiz was previously with XP Securities, a unit of Brazilian broker XP Investimentos, for about a year. Before that, he spent about 18 years at Merrill Lynch, both in New York and Mexico City. There he spent ten years in the Latin America ADR portfolio trading/sales trading group.
Paul Buckley joined Janney Montgomery Scott as a sales trader. He was previously a sales trader with Knight Capital Group, now known as KCG Holdings, for six years.
Industry veteran Gerald Domanski joined Braver Stern Securities as global head of equities. In recent years, Domanski has held senior equities/trading roles at Tejas Securities and S.J. Levinson. He also spent five years as an international trader at BTIG. Domanski was at Spear, Leeds and Kellogg for 14 years.
