Nomura Continues To Build Equity Derivatives Team
Nomura announced today that it is continuing its drive to build its Equity Derivatives team, as it confirmed a further 24 people appointed to the business in the past four months. The appointments include four new directors: Alain Chanezon, Florian Hillen, Garry Topp and Shilpa Amin.
Mr Chanezon joins from Société Générale where he had senior trading responsibilities over exotic products. In his new role at Nomura, he will focus on developing the exotics business using his seven years of trading experience plus his four years in systems development. Mr Hillen joins from ABN Amro where he headed up flow trading for their equity derivatives group. He will build Nomura's market-making capabilities using his six years experience in trading single stocks plus his two years in systems development.
Both Mr Chanezon and Mr Hillen will report to Marco Mocquard, Head of Trading.
Mr Topp has 15 years of experience in selling investment products and joins from SRI Capital Advisors. Prior to that, he was at Henderson Global Investors where he was responsible for developing and distributing products in retail and institutional markets. In his new role, he will focus on fund sales and will report to Joachim Willnow, Head of Equity Derivatives.
Ms Amin joins from Merrill Lynch where she was legal counsel to both product and platform development. In her new role at Nomura, she will focus on platform development using her 12 years legal experience. She will report to Michael Fullalove, Head of Product Development.
Zenji Nakamura, Head of Global Markets for Nomura International, Europe, said, "This demonstrates our commitment to the opportunities present in the equity derivatives business and to expanding our derivatives franchise to a global level."
Joachim Willnow commented; "We are well on the way to meeting our objective of creating a market leading Equity Derivatives business. We are bringing together some of the best talent on the street to capture market share and develop innovative products to meet growing investor appetite."
The full list of recent appointments to Nomura's Equity Derivatives business is:
| Name | Title | Function | Joining From |
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| Isabel Abellan | Assistant Vice President | Sales | Merrill Lynch |
| Shilpa Amin | Director | Product Development | Merrill Lynch |
| Dominic Ash | Assistant Vice President | Quant | Merrill Lynch |
| Roberto Bartolomei | Vice President | Sales | Morgan Stanley |
| Tanja Biernatzki | Assistant Vice President | Sales | Cinven |
| Helen Bljaic | Vice President | Product Development | Merrill Lynch |
| Carolyn Boehme | Sales & Trading Assistant | Sales & Trading | Euro Business College - Jena |
| Alain Chanezon | Director | Trading | Société Générale |
| Katherine Doran | Assistant Vice President | Product Development | Merrill Lynch |
| Heike Fuerpass | Vice President | Sales | Merrill Lynch |
| Mark Green | Vice President | Trading | Merrill Lynch |
| Rory Hill | Vice President | Trading | JP Morgan |
| Florian Hillen | Director | Trading | ABN Amro |
| Steve Lazouras | Senior Product Controller | Business Control | Royal Bank of Canada |
| Ivan Levorato | Vice President | Product Development | Bank of America |
| Jaime Madariaga | Vice President | Trading | Allianz Dresdner |
| Joel McInnes | Assistant Vice President | Trading | JP Morgan |
| Melissa Paul | PA to MD | BNP Paribas | |
| Patricia Perlman | Vice President | Sales | JP Morgan |
| Shawn Riley | Vice President | Trading | UBS |
| Victoria Smith | Product Development Assistant | Product Development | Weber Shandwick |
| Jacqueline Teah | Legal Counsel | Legal | Bright Capital |
| Garry Topp | Director | Sales | SRI Capital Advisors |
| Kenneth Weakley | Accountant | Business Control | Royal Bank of Canada |
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