Gina Fenton joins the Williams Capital Group’s New York office as vice president in electronic trading sales and marketing. Fenton, a 25-year veteran, came from Pipeline Trading Systems, where she spent six years as an execution consultant and managing director in sales.
Williams Capital also recruited 18-year sales trading veteran Ledice Sweeney, who will be working in the firm’s New York and Westport, Conn. offices. Sweeney previously spent four years at AltruShare Securities.
Collins Stewart hired a team of sales traders for its new office in Minnetonka, Minn. The group was previously with Pali Capital, which closed this year. Paul Prentice, an 18-year veteran, heads the desk. Prentice, who joined Pali in 2005, will look to grow Collins Stewart’s Midwest trading and sales business. He reports to John Abularrage.
Also joining Collins Stewart from Pali as sales traders are 10-year veteran Greg Pfleider and 15-year pros Matt Dorn and Peter Thompson. John Burkhartzmeyer, a 17-year veteran, focuses on equities derivatives. He reports to Abularrage.
Don Heckman joins Fidelity Capital Markets as a sales trader in New York. Heckman, a 16-year veteran, was previously with NYFIX. Heckman spent two years at BNY ConvergEx.
Marty Cunningham joins Esposito Securities as executive vice president. Cunningham, a 28-year veteran, was hired to open a New York office. He was previously chief executive officer of Hudson Securities. Earlier, Cunningham was at Schwab Capital Markets, where he was a senior vice president in equity trading and sales.
Stock exchange Direct Edge recently named its new 10-member board of directors.
They are James Angel, a finance professor at Georgetown University; Larry Bergmann, a longtime SEC official in the Division of Market Regulation now in private practice; Stephen Brodsky, a managing director at private equity firm Vernon & Park Capital and former head of the Chicago Stock Exchange; William Dailey, special counsel at the law firm Fox Rothschild and previously general counsel at Bear Wagner; Scott Ganeles, CEO of Ipreo, which services the capital markets; Patrick Healy, CEO of the Issuer Advisory Group, which assists public companies; Sam Scott Miller, senior counsel at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and chairman of its market regulation group; Mark Minister, a longtime executive in the trading and financial information field, including senior roles at Bridge Trading and SunGard; George Munoz, principal of investment banking firm Munoz Group; and Richard Schenkman, managing partner at Elm Tree Group, a private investment firm, and former CEO of Brut.
Linda Zilliox joins Smart Trade Technologies as a marketing manager, a new role at the firm. Zilliox, a five-year pro, was previously with NYFIX, where she spent three years as marketing manager and oversaw the firm’s events and promotions. She reports to Margaret Bailey.
