NinjaTrader, a fintech platform for retail futures trading, has announced that Tobin McDaniel has joined the company as President. McDaniel joins NinjaTrader with 15 years of experience in the retail trading and investing spaces, most recently serving as Head of SoFi Invest. Previously, he held high-caliber positions at Charles Schwab, where he led a portfolio of products to better serve self-directed investors, bringing personalization to investing. This included growing Schwab’s digital advice business to $50B+ in AUM, in addition to launching the company’s innovation lab.
MetLife Investment Management (MIM), the institutional asset management business of MetLife, has named Jude Driscoll its president, effective September 1. Previously serving as MIM’s global head of Fixed Income and Private Capital, Driscoll will continue to report to John McCallion, MetLife’s chief financial officer and head of MetLife Investment Management. The two will collaborate in driving MIM’s strategy and business operations. Driscoll joined MIM in 2017 following its acquisition of Logan Circle Partners, where he was founder, chief executive officer and chief investment officer. Prior to Logan Circle, Driscoll was president and chief executive officer of Delaware Investments.
Houlihan Lokey, a global investment bank, has hired Geoff Rhizor as Managing Director. Based in San Francisco, he will join the Technology Group where he will focus on the social impact/nonprofit and office of the CFO software sectors and will collaborate with members of the FinTech Group in the latter. Rhizor joins the firm after spending the past six years at Canaccord Genuity, where he helped establish its West Coast technology Investment Banking practice, focusing on the software, IT services, FinTech, internet, and digital media sectors.
Glazer Capital, a global investment firm primarily focused on arbitrage and event-driven investing, has hired Erik Mahland in the newly created role of Director of Convertibles. In this position, Mahland will lead Glazer Capital’s efforts to expand its investments in Convertible Arbitrage. Prior to joining Glazer Capital, Mahland spent 20 years at Soros Fund Management, initially as an Analyst and later as a Portfolio Manager specializing in Convertible Arbitrage. He began his career as a trader at Tribeca Investments, and most recently served as a Portfolio Manager at Palisade Capital Management.
Western Asset Management Company has appointed Michael Buchanan as Chief Investment Officer. Buchanan had served as co-CIO with Ken Leech, who is on a leave of absence, effective immediately. Along with his responsibilities as CIO, Buchanan has assumed leadership of all global investment management responsibilities. With nearly two decades at the Company and over three decades of industry expertise, Buchanan has helped lead the Company’s Global and US Strategy Committees and has had direct oversight of the Company’s global investment teams, including global macro and all sector teams.
Cain Brothers, a division of KeyBanc Capital Markets, has appointed Roman Rezanowicz as Managing Director to expand its coverage of the pharmaceutical services and technology sector. Rezanowicz is based in the firm’s New York office and report to Wyatt Ritchie, Group Head of Cain Brothers. Rezanowicz brings more than a dozen years of investment banking experience, most recently at Jefferies, where he represented a wide range of privately-held and publicly-traded companies within the pharmaceutical services and technology sector.
Cushman & Wakefield has hired Miles Treaster as President, Capital Markets, Americas. Treaster has more than 20 years of experience in institutional real estate debt and equity capital markets with an extensive background in acquisitions, structured finance, management and disposition of office, multifamily, industrial, retail and hotel asset classes. Treaster previously served as a founding partner of Five Horizons, a real estate investment and advisory firm, where he raised investment funds for various clients including Limited Partners and high-net-worth individuals.
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