Empire Securities announced the arrival of Christopher OConnor as President. OConnor, the former Managing Director of Capital Markets and Investment Banking at Incapital, will lead the companys fixed income business. OConnor, who will be based in the companys New York headquarters, will oversee the build out of its institutional sales and trading capabilities, most notably the debt capital markets and other specialty finance groups. He will also lead efforts to grow the firms relationships with upper tier financial institutions. In addition to Incapital, OConnor has held leadership positions at Pierpont Securities and Bear Stearns. His early career was spent as a corporate bond trader at JP Morgan Chase, First Boston and Salomon Brothers.
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The firm also recently landed industry veterans Thomas ONeill, a founding principal of the investment banking and brokerage firm Sandler ONeill + Partners, and Edward LaScala, who formerly led the institutional sales group at Incapital.
CloudMargin, creator of a web-based collateral and margin management solution, announced that Martin Adams has joined the firms senior leadership team as Head of Client Operations. Adams is a 26-year veteran of derivatives operations, with extensive experience in over-the-counter (OTC) and listed derivatives, as well as fixed income and foreign exchange (FX) products. In this new role, Adams will be responsible for leading CloudMargins pre-sales support, onboarding and ongoing client support functions. Prior to joining CloudMargin, Adams spent more than two years at Lombard Risk and was Vice President, EMEA Derivative Clearing Operations for J.P. Morgan. He also served at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in 2005, where he spent nearly nine years, including five as Vice President, EMEA FX Operations and then several years as Vice President, EMEA OTC Clearing.
Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., a minority- and woman-owned investment bank, announced that 12-year investment banking veteran Jason Teeters has joined the firm as Senior Managing Director in the Corporate Finance and Capital Markets division. In his new role, he will provide primary coverage responsibility forlarge- and mid-cap corporate issuers across multiple industries, lead the firms strategic advisory platform and take responsibility for the training and development of its junior bankers. Teeters joins SCSCO from Barclays, where he had worked since 2005, serving as a Director in its Investment Banking Division. At Barclays, he was a senior coverage officer, leading Barclays global efforts with mid- and large-cap public and private clients as part of its Global Consumer Retail team. Teeters will report to John Rhea, who was named President of SCSCOs Corporate Finance and Capital Markets division in June.
BOX Options Exchange named Sean Flynn and Jack Sandner to the Exchange Board of Directors. Flynn is Co-Head of Options Trading at Two Sigma Securities LLC, and previously was Vice President and Head of Trading at Timber Hill LLC.Sandner is a former longtime Chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, now the CME Group.
New York-based analytics technology provider Selerity has appointed Junta Nakai global head of business development, responsible for creating growth opportunities by promoting the vendors products. Nakai was previously head of Asia-Pacific equity sales for the Americas at Goldman Sachs, where he spent 13 years in roles that involved automating and digitizing sales and trading processes.
BondWave announced Pete Newman has joined the firm as Vice President of Sales. Newman will be tasked with growing market adoption of BondWaves newly launched fixed income platform (Effi), focusing on broker-dealers and RIAs. With over 20 years of experience in the industry, he joins BondWave from Private Client Resources. Previously, he was responsible for business development at both Lumesis and DPC DATA and prior to that was CEO of Gotham Software, a financial services software firm specializing in compliance and workflow solutions for the fixed income market. He will report to Tony Miscimarra, Managing Director of Business Development.
Mizuho Americas named Keith Wargo Managing Director and Co-Head of Banking Coverage. Wargo will lead Mizuho Americas’ coverage of the consumer, healthcare, real estate and financial sectors. He will also manage the firm’s financial sponsor business and report directly to Andrew Dewing, Head of North American Banking. Prior to Mizuho Americas, Wargo was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, acting as Global Co-Head of the Consumer, Retail and Services Group for nearly 10 years. Before that, he spent 12 years at Goldman Sachs in various roles in the Investment Banking Division where he worked with clients across many verticals including consumer, retail, industrials and financial institutions. Wargo has also served in senior roles at BMO Capital Markets and as a consultant to Discovery Communications.
Noel Kimmel, who founded Cantor Fitzgeralds prime brokerage division in 2009, has joined Cerberus Capital Management as managing director. In 2012, following the companys launch of its clearing division, Kimmel also became CEO of Cantor Clearing along with his responsibilities as global head of prime services. In October, Cantor hired Jon Yalmokas, the former head of Americas prime brokerage at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as global head of prime brokerage.
