Stifel has selected a former Instinet executive to join its ranks as managing director and head of execution services for EMEA, The TRADE can reveal.
Stifel did not respond to a request for comment.
Seema Arora has been appointed as execution services head for EMEA at the firm after most recently serving at Instinet for five and half years, leaving earlier this year.
During her tenure at Instinet, Arora was a keen supporter of The TRADE’s Rising Stars of Trading and Execution initiative supporting up and coming talent on the buy-side and was nominated for the Industry Person of the Year Award at Leaders in Trading 2023.
Prior to joining Instinet, Arora spent almost 11 years at Kepler Cheuvreux in senior execution services sales roles.
She also previously spent six years at JP Morgan as its head of execution sales and five years at Desdner Kleinwort as head of program trading sales.