Siebert Brandford Shank & Co. has named Patricia Koetzner as a managing director and new head of equity sales and trading. Koetzner, a professional with over 22 years in the securities industry, will work out of SBS's New York City office and oversee the firm's national equity portfolio and clients. She will also be responsible for generating relationships and facilitating equity trading for the firm. Her equity trading functions include: traditional long/short sales trading coverage, implementation of algorithmic strategies, share repurchases, trading and program trading.
Most recently, she was a managing director and head of equity sales & trading at CastleOak Securities, L.P. Prior to that, she served as vice president of Barclays Capital for seven years where she covered cash accounts and repurchased shares for corporations, before becoming a member of its electronic trading group. For the first decade of her career, she was a NASDAQ market maker for firms including Neuberger Berman, LLC, Gruntal & Co. and Dominick & Dominick, Inc.
BTIG hired a bunch of senior hires in its investment banking and capital markets division. In New York, the firm hired Charles Mather as a managing director within the firm's capital markets group and Brett Fodero (pictured) as a director within the TMT investment banking group. Fodero came from BMO Capital Markets, where he served as an equity research analyst focused on the software industry. Previously, he was a member of the software research team at Lazard Capital Markets for more than five years.
George Francis has been hired by Jordan & Jordan, a FinTech company, to join its Market Data practice. Francis, a specialist in market data compliance, contract interpretation and data analysis, will manage client engagements that focus on market data compliance assessments and provide expertise to clients on the Market Data Reporting managed service offering. He came from Bloomberg where he was a Market Data Compliance Analyst focused on implementing procedures in support of market data compliance across all Bloomberg Media products and services. Prior to that, he was a Market Data Compliance Analyst at Reval.
Jefferies Group, the investment bank owned by Leucadia National Corp., hired Chris Pepe from Barclays Plc to expand in electronic trading, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Pepe is at least the fifth electronic sales-trader or executive that Jefferies hired from the London-based bank within the past year, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing personnel matters.
William Bell, formerly head of electronic distribution at Barclays, was hired by Jefferies last July, along with Anthony Pallone, another top sales executive, Traders previously reported. Daniel Armao and David Green started in January and November, respectively.
