Trading Places: January Sees Continued Flurry of Hires

Monday, January 16

Tom Gillie

Tom Gillie, Société Générale

Société Générale . He will be based out of London and joins the company at a time of extended expansion of the French bank’s foreign exchange team. Société Générale has hired several key sales and trading staff recently.

Trent Beacroft, FastMatch

Trent Beacroft . Assuming his new position, Trent will manage and drive sales opportunities across hedge funds, banks, brokers and asset managers segments in Asia. He will be tasked with further developing Singapore’s sales potential within top tier institutions throughout the Asia Pacific region.

Tuesday, January 17

Derek West, DTCC

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). In his new role at DTCC, Mr. West will be a constituent of the group’s European Global Trade Repository (GTR) business.

Julie Rochette, Montreal Exchange

TMX Group . Ms. Rochette originally joined the Montréal Exchange in October 2015 and has since served as its Director, Enforcement and Legal Counsel in the Regulatory Division. Her promotion follows on the heels of a recent move that saw Brian Gelfand take up a new role as the Chief Commercial Officer for CDS and CDCC.

Wednesday, January 18 

Chris Hansen, ADS Securities London

Chris Hansen

ADS Securities London Limited, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi-based broker ADS Securities, . He has joined the FCA-regulated firm’s board as an accomplished financial technology professional with senior level experience in financial services and technology.

Michael Eilert, Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse Group AG , hoping to reinvigorate its US leveraged finance trading business. The bank hired Michael Eilert who co-led US loan trading at Deutsche Bank AG with William Dobson until February 2016, when Dobson left the company and Eilert became sole head of the group.

Thursday, January 19

Aitan Goelman, CFTC

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Thursday announced that Enforcement Director Aitan Goelman . The departures of Mr. Goelman and several Wall Street overseers come as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to fill out his incoming administration.

Leo Civitillo, Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley made a new promotion to its fixed-income unit Thursday , following over a decade with the lender. Mr. Civitillo originally joined Morgan Stanley back in 2004 as a Managing Director, focusing on the fixed-income underwriting and derivatives space.

Friday, January 20

Mark McLain and Peter Heller, Mizuho Americas

Mizuho Americas , expanding the focus of the unit to the utilities and energy sectors. Mark McLain and Peter Heller will be brought in to serve as managing directors across the utilities and energy space – in this capacity they will be reporting to Eric Shenker, Managing Director and Head of Equity Trading at Mizuho Americas.

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