Knight Expands U.S. Fixed Income Sales and Trading Team
JERSEY CITY, N.J. and GREENWICH, Conn., June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NYSE Euronext: KCG), today announced the appointments of several individuals to the U.S. fixed income sales and trading team across Investment Grade, Emerging Markets, Bank Loans, Distressed and Private Placement. Effective immediately, Richard Coppersmith, Alejandro Gutierrez, Sean Martin, Marjorie McNair, Richard Mercante, Vikram Natarajan, Paul Scotto, Kevin Smyth and Helen Yeager have joined Knight.
“Knight continues to add sales and trading talent across products in order to deepen client relationships,” said Gary Katcher, Executive Vice President, Head of Global Institutional Fixed Income at Knight Capital Group. “We will continue to look for opportunities to grow and diversify revenues by strengthening our client offering and level of service to buy-side firms.”
Knight provides buy-side firms with research, sales and trading across a broad range of fixed income securities. Knight trades on a client-driven basis in securities that include High Yield/Distressed, Investment Grade/Crossover, Bank Loans, Hybrid Securities, ABS/MBS, Convertibles, Municipals, Taxable Municipals and Corporate/Sovereign Emerging Markets Debt. The fixed income research team generates in-depth reports that span the capital structure of fixed income issuers across 30 sectors in the U.S. and emerging markets.
The additions to Investment Grade, Bank Loans, Distressed and Private Placements report to Sean Dowd and Al Lhota, Managing Directors, Co-Heads of U.S. Credit Sales. Richard Mercante, Paul Scotto, Kevin Smyth and Helen Yeager will be responsible for Investment Grade sales. Vikram Natarajan will head Bank Loans and Distressed trading. Richard Coppersmith will be responsible for Private Placements. Sean Martin will be responsible for trading financials and report to Michael Liebowitz, Managing Director, U.S. Credit Sales and Trading. Alejandro Gutierrez and Marjorie McNair are responsible for global Emerging Markets with a primary focus on Latin American accounts and will report to Daniel Mullineaux, Managing Director, Global Head of Emerging Markets.
Biographies
Richard Coppersmith
Director
Knight Libertas LLC
Richard Coppersmith is a Director responsible for Private Placements.
Prior to joining Knight, Richard was Executive Vice President at Libra Securities responsible for the private placement group. Previously, Mr. Coppersmith was Senior Vice President at Credit Research responsible for investment grade sales. In his eight years at Goldman Sachs and Co. Richard held various positions in fixed income sales and trading. Previously, he worked for Paine Webber and Lehman Brothers.
Richard has a bachelor of arts in economics from Hobart College.
Alejandro Gutierrez
Director
Knight Libertas LLC
Alejandro is a Director responsible for global Emerging Markets sales with a primary focus on Latin American accounts.
Mr. Gutierrez is a former Senior Executive Director and Partner at Atlas One Financial Group, LLC, where the he established an institutional business focused on emerging markets. Previously, Alex was Managing Director Principal, Emerging Markets Fixed Income Sales at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. Prior to Bear Stearns, Mr. Gutierrez worked in different emerging markets-oriented roles at Merrill Lynch, Citibank and Eli Lilly and Co.
Alex has a bachelor of arts in business administration from Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) and master of business administration in international management from American Graduate School of International Management.
Sean R. Martin
Director
Knight Libertas LLC
Sean Martin is a Director, responsible for trading financials.
Prior to joining Knight, Mr. Martin was a Director at BTIG where he was a Corporate Bond Trader focusing on the telecom, media and technology (TMT) and utility sectors. Previously, Sean was with UBS Investment Bank for seven years in various roles most recently as an Executive Director and Corporate Bond and Derivative Trader.
Mr. Martin has a bachelor of science in finance and information systems from University of Rhode Island.
Marjorie S. McNair
Director
Knight Libertas LLC
Marjorie McNair is a Director responsible for global Emerging Markets sales with a primary focus on Latin American accounts.
Marjorie is a former Senior Managing Director, Emerging Markets Sales at Atlas One Financial Group, LLC where she established an institutional sales team focused on Latin American emerging markets sales. Previously, she was a Managing Director at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. responsible for fixed income emerging markets products. Prior to Bear Stearns, Marjorie held various roles in emerging market sales at Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Cambridge International Securities, Inc., UBS, AG, and Chemical Bank.
Marjorie has a bachelor of arts in political science and Spanish from Duke University.
Richard A. Mercante, CFA
Managing Director
Knight Libertas LLC
Richard Mercante, CFA, is a Managing Director, U.S. Investment Grade sales.
Mr. Mercante is a former Senior Managing Director at American International Group (AIG) in the Global Investment Group (GIG) and Member of the AIGGIG Executive Committee. In all, Rich spent more than 13 years at AIG in roles that included Head of U.S./London Fixed Income, Head of Core Fixed Income and Head of Investment Grade Fixed Income. Previously, he worked at Dean Witter Intercapital, Salomon Brothers and Smith Barney, Harris Upham.
Rich has a bachelor of science in finance from Pennsylvania State University and a master of business administration from Fordham University.
Vikram Natarajan
Managing Director
Knight Libertas LLC
Vikram Natarajan is a Managing Director, Head of Loan and Distressed Trading.
Prior to joining Knight, Mr. Natarajan was Managing Director at FBR Capital Markets where he was responsible for distressed and loan trading. Previously, Mr. Natarajan was an Executive Director with UBS responsible for distressed trading. Vikram spent 12 years in various roles with Credit Suisse including capital markets, distressed trading and co-leading a proprietary desk within Leverage Finance.
Vikram has a bachelor of arts in political science from Johns Hopkins University and a master of business administration from Columbia Business School.
Paul M. Scotto
Director
Knight Libertas LLC
Paul Scotto is a Director, U.S. Investment Grade sales.
Prior to joining Knight, Mr. Scotto was Managing Director at BTIG focused on credit fixed income sales. Previously, Paul worked for UBS Investment Bank as Executive Director, Credit Fixed Income Sales.
Paul has a bachelor of science in marketing from Boston College.
Kevin J. Smyth
Director
Knight Libertas LLC
Kevin Smyth is a Director, U.S. Investment Grade sales.
Prior to joining Knight, Mr. Smyth was Vice President at Raymond James focused on credit fixed income sales. Previously, Kevin worked for JPMorgan as a Managing Director in Institutional Sales. Mr. Smyth spent over 22 years with Bear Stearns & Co. in various roles ending his tenure as Senior Managing Director, Institutional Credit Sales.
Kevin has a bachelor of science in finance and master of business administration from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Helen D. Yeager
Managing Director
Knight Libertas LLC
Helen Yeager is a Managing Director, U.S. Investment Grade sales.
Ms. Yeager is the former Managing Director and Head of Investment Grade Credit Sales at Deutsche Bank, where she oversaw a team of 30 sales professionals responsible for covering more than 400 institutional investors. Previously, Helen worked in fixed income sales at Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse First Boston.
Helen has a bachelor of arts in economics from Columbia University and a master of business administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
About Knight
Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NYSE Euronext: KCG) is a global financial services firm that provides market access and trade execution services across multiple asset classes to buy- and sell-side firms. Knight's hybrid market model features complementary electronic and voice trade execution services in global equities and fixed income as well as foreign exchange, futures and options. The firm is the leading source of liquidity in U.S. equities by share volume. Knight also offers capital markets services to corporate issuers. Knight is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ with a growing global presence across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. For more information, please go to www.knight.com.
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