BTIG made two key appointments including promoting Troy Donohue to head of Americas portfolio trading and hiring Henri Taylor as director within electronic trading sales. As part of his new role, Donohue will hold responsibility for expanding the firm’s portfolio trading and ETF offerings to provide custom solutions for institutional clients to implement their investment strategies. BTIG stated that Donohue’s understanding of portfolio construction, implementation and ETF tax efficiency mechanisms will help position the firm as a trusted partner for clients looking to launch active or passive ETFs.
Elsewhere, Taylor brings over 20 years’ experience in electronic trading sales to the firm. He will be responsible for expanding the firm’s client base in ADR conversions and electronic trading with a focus on selling its new proprietary algorithmic suite. He joined BTIG from RBC Capital Markets, where he most recently served as global head of equity electronic sales.
Stifel Financial Corporation appointed Aviad Axelrod in an algorithmic trading and execution services related role. Axelrod joined Stifel from Virtu Financial, where he spent the last five years, most recently in an execution services, business development and market structure position. Prior to that, Axelrod spent 15 years at ITG (UK), most recently serving as director for algorithmic trading and smart order routing as well as product management. Before taking on that role, Axelrod served as vice president, product manager for the execution management system (EMS) and market data businesses at the firm. Elsewhere in his tenure at ITG, Axelrod served as a trade support manager and application analyst.
Citi appointed Chris Metivier as a credit derivatives trader. Metivier joined Citi from UBS, where he spent six months serving as a credit derivatives trader. Prior to that, he spent just over two years at Credit Suisse as a macro credit trader.