Paul Walker-Duncalf, formerly BlackRock's global head of equity trading, left the firm July 28, according to the Financial Services Register. A spokesman for BlackRock said head of U.S. equity trading Paul Whitehead will be taking on the global role.
BOX, a provider of cloud based services, has hired Nasdaq alum Adam Ross to lead a team in the cloud software company's new Manhattan office, due to open in October. Ross most recently the vice president of global corporate solutions at Nasdaq, to spearhead that strategy. Before that, Ross was responsible for growing Bloomberg Financial's software business from zero to 85 accounts.
Triad Securities hired Brandi Gatlin as director of Institutional Sales. Gatlin, with more than 15 years' experience in equity research sales and trading will focus on new business generation in Prime Brokerage, Triad's New Issue Service, and expanding Triad's presence with Institutional clients, hedge funds, and family offices. Gatlin has worked at A.G. Edwards, Merriman Capital and most recently was a research sales person at MLV & Co.
Citigoup named former Deutsche Bank executives Simon Kempton and Daniel Caplan (pictured) to senior roles in its prime services business. Caplan and Kempton last week left Deutsche Bank, where Kempton was head of the prime brokerage business internationally-within the broader prime-finance unit-and Caplan was head of European prime finance.
EBS BrokerTec, ICAP's electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business, is continuing along with its integration and formed an executive management team to lead the new business. The new management structure will allow a streamlined integration of the division, including its combined product, technology and sales groups. As a result, the central limit order book (CLOB) businesses of EBS Market and BrokerTec have been combined into a single business division now referred to as EBS BrokerTec Markets. In addition, the BrokerTec CLOB business will now be referred to as BrokerTec Market.
In addition, Phil Harris joined EBS BrokerTec as head of EBS Market. Harris joins from NASDAQ where he was head of FX strategy & initiatives with responsibility for global strategy and product design for FX products. Prior to this he held roles at 360T, FXMarketSpace and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He will be based in New York and report to Cleaves and Hooker.
Anthony Dunphy has joined Dash Financial as head of sales. Dunphy, who has spent the last 15 years in sales and business development for trading solutions and technologies, came from Eze Software Group/. At Eze he held several roles including global head of sellside sales and head of buyside sales in the Americas. Prior to Eze, he spent 10 years with Goldman Sachs' REDI unit, where he held various positions including sales trading and project management, and spent four years building out REDI's business in Japan.
