JERSEY CITY, N.J., LONDON and HONG KONG, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Knight Capital Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NITE) today announced that Knight Libertas
has established a Global Emerging Markets Sales team based in Greenwich,
Conn., Hong Kong and London. Effective immediately, the following have joined
the institutional fixed income broker-dealer: Augusto Castilho, Eamon Tubridy,
Alfredo Viegas and Elena Antonova in the U.S.; Alesandro Gherzi, Alisa
Mujagic, Nipun Ramaiya, Darren Reiss, Richard Segal and Will Trossell in the
U.K.; and Jay Lee and Felix Sun in Asia.
"Knight is pleased to announce these hires as part of the build-out of our
Global Emerging Markets business, which will focus on names across Latin
America, Eastern Europe/Russia, Africa and Asia," said Dan Mullineaux,
managing director, global head of emerging markets fixed income. "We will
continue to add top-tier talent in all three major time zones as we develop a
full-service emerging markets platform encompassing sales, trading, strategy,
research and capital markets capabilities."
Knight Libertas is an institutional fixed income broker-dealer providing trade
execution, fundamental investment research and capital markets services across
a broad range of fixed income securities, including Emerging Market Credit and
Sovereigns. Knight Libertas also provides secondary market liquidity and
credit-based analysis for Investment Grade and High Yield bonds, Bank Loans
and ABS/MBS, among other securities.
The U.S. Emerging Markets team operates from 1 Greenwich Park South, 2nd
Floor, Greenwich, CT 06831, phone +1 203 629 9526 and fax +1 203 629 0418.
Knight Libertas LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Knight Capital Group, Inc.
The European Emerging Markets team operates from Knight's London office at
City Place House, 55 Basinghall Street, London EC2V 5DU, phone +44 (0)20 7997
2200 and fax +44 (0)20 7997 2220. Knight Libertas UK is a division of Knight
Capital Europe Limited, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Knight Capital
Group, Inc.
The Asia-Pacific Emerging Markets team operates from Knight's Hong Kong office
at 2 International Finance Centre, Suites 4506-4509, 8 Finance Street,
Central, Hong Kong, phone +852 3987 5000 and fax +852 3987 5100. Knight
Libertas (Asia) Limited is an affiliate of Knight Libertas LLC, both of which
are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Knight Capital Group, Inc.
Biographies
U.S.
Augusto Castilho
Director, Emerging Markets Team
Knight Libertas
Augusto Castilho is Sales Director Latin America, Emerging Markets Sales for
Knight Libertas.
Prior to joining Knight Libertas, Mr. Castilho was the Head of Emerging
Markets Fixed Income for Itau USA Securities covering institutional investors
of all types in North America. He also sold alternative investments to pension
funds, endowments, foundations and similar institutions in the U.S. Prior to
his New York tour, Augusto was a Portfolio Manager and Head Currency Trader
for Itau Asset Management, with $15 billion in Brazilian corporate client
assets under management. He also worked at first-tier institutions in the U.S.
and Brazil, mainly Louis Dreyfus, Wachovia and Merrill Lynch, as a trader of
institutional proprietary money, reporting to the Treasurer.
Augusto specializes in international, sovereign and corporate securities. He
also has a deep knowledge of structured credit products, derivatives,
currencies, interest rates and G-7 markets.
Augusto graduated with a bachelor in business administration from FGV-Fundacao
Getulio Vargas, with concentrations in finance and management. He also has a
master's in economics from IBMEC, with a concentration on econometrics and
macroeconomics, and a graduate education in finance from Harvard University,
with a concentration in asset modeling and derivatives.
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Eamon Tubridy
Director, Emerging Markets Team
Knight Libertas
Eamon Tubridy is a Director, Emerging Markets Sales for Knight Libertas.
Prior to joining Knight Libertas, Mr. Tubridy worked at RBS in emerging market
sales. He has nearly 20 years of experience in emerging markets, primarily on
the buy-side as a trader and analyst at the following organizations: Salomon
Brothers Asset Management, OppenheimerFunds, Nomura Corporate Research & Asset
Management and Moore Capital.
Eamon has a bachelor of science in finance from New York University. He is a
CFA charterholder.
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Alfredo Viegas
Director, Emerging Markets Team
Knight Libertas
Alfredo Viegas is a Director, Emerging Markets Sales for Knight Libertas.
Prior to joining Knight Libertas, Mr. Viegas managed global credit and
multi-strategy hedge funds. At Advent Capital, he co-managed the convertible
arbitrage and multi-strategy funds, and at Tiedemann Investment Group he
managed a global event-driven hedge fund. Previously, Alfredo managed emerging
markets funds in both debt and equity. The Lexington World Wide, an equity
mutual fund he managed, was ranked the #1 in 1999 emerging markets equity fund
in the U.S. out of 342 funds. At Salomon Brothers he was a Latin America
equity strategist and emerging market corporate bond analyst. His career began
with Morgan Stanley where he covered Latin America.
Alfredo has a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University and has a master's in
astrophysics from Swinburne University.
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Elena Antonova
Associate, Emerging Markets Team
Knight Libertas
Elena Antonova is a Desk Analyst, Emerging Markets Team for Knight Libertas.
Prior to joining Knight Libertas, Ms. Antonova was an emerging markets analyst
with RenCap Securities for equities and fixed income. Previously, Elena worked
for KPMG in Russia as an auditor.
Elena has a master in finance from Brandeis University, International Business
School.
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Europe
Alessandro Gherzi
Director, Emerging Markets Team
Knight Libertas UK
Alessandro Gherzi is a Director, Emerging Markets Sales for Knight Libertas in
London.
Prior to joining Knight Libertas, Mr. Gherzi was employed by J.P. Morgan where
he worked in credit, cash, foreign exchange and structured product sales
primarily covering CIS accounts. Previously, Alessandro was in emerging
markets origination and sales for Credit Suisse First Boston. He also worked
at Lehman Brothers International (Europe) in the syndication and debt capital
markets group.
Alessandro has a bachelor of science and a master of science in management
from London School of Economics and Political Science. He also has a
pan-European master's degree in management from Community of European
Management Schools. He is fluent in Russian, Italian and English.
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Alisa Mujagic
Director, Emerging Markets Team
Knight Libertas UK
Alisa Mujagic is Director, Emerging Markets Sales and African Trading for
Knight Libertas in London.
Prior to joining Knight Libertas, Ms. Mujagic was with UBA Global Capital
responsible for sales and trading in Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa local
and external corporate and sovereign debt. Previously, Alisa was Associate
Director with UBS Investment Bank focused on Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa
external and local debt.
Alisa attended Columbia University with a master's of international affairs.
She also has a bachelor of science from Mercy College.
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Nipun Ramaiya
Director, Emerging Markets Team
Knight Libertas UK
Nipun Ramaiya is Director, Emerging Markets Sales for Knight Libertas in
London.
Prior to joining Knight Libertas, Mr. Ramaiya traded and structured Emerging
Market products at Royal Bank of Scotland. Before joining RBS, he traded
Emerging Markets for Merrill Lynch. There, he traded Foreign Exchange options,
Local Markets and Emerging Markets CDS.
Nipun has a bachelor of technology in aeronautical engineering from Indian
Institute of Technology and a master of business administration in finance
from Pennsylvania State University.
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Darren Reiss
Director, Emerging Markets Team
Knight Libertas UK
Darren Reiss is a Director, Emerging Markets Sales for Knight Libertas in
London.
Prior to joining Knight Libertas, Mr. Reiss was director of emerging markets
sales at HSBC covering U.K. hedge funds. Previously, Darren set up the U.K.
sales team of MarketAxess. He began his career at Hambors/RBC responsible for
investment grade credit sales to the Benelux markets.
Darren has a maths and management science at Manchester University.
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Richard Segal
Director, Emerging Markets Team
Knight Libertas UK
Richard Segal is a Director, Emerging Markets Team for Knight Libertas in
London.
Mr. Segal joined Knight Libertas to conduct analysis on EMEA corporates as
well as emerging market sovereigns. For the past two years, he has focused on
the African markets at UBA and Renaissance Capital. Immediately prior, he was
Chief Strategist at Argo Capital, a global emerging markets credit fund.
Earlier in his career, Richard worked at institutions such as Salomon
Brothers, Bank of America and Santander Investment. He has been a consultant
to major commercial banks, institutional investors and corporates, where he in
turn focused on Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
During his career, Richard has developed a variety of economic and financial
models concerning sovereign risk, term structure of bonds, and relative value
of currencies and commodities. He is the editor and co-author of a guide on
the sub-Saharan capital markets, the author of "The Russian Economy in 1994"
and was a contributing author to "The Handbook of International Investing."
Richard has a degree in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Will Trossell
Director, Emerging Markets Team
Knight Libertas UK
Will Trossell is a Director, Emerging Markets Team for Knight Libertas in
London.
Prior to joining Knight Libertas, Mr. Trossell established the emerging
markets sales desk at Calyon CIB focused on trading credit bonds and CDS.
Prior to this, he was on the emerging markets sales team at UBS.
Will has a bachelor of science in economics from Plymouth.
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Asia-Pacific
Jay Lee
Director, Emerging Markets Team
Knight Libertas, Hong Kong
Jay Lee is a Director, Emerging Markets Sales for Knight Libertas in Hong
Kong.
Prior to joining Knight Libertas, Mr. Lee was the Head of Structured Credit
and Credit Sales at Calyon CIB where he was responsible for covering the
Korean markets. Previously, Jay was Vice President, Fixed Income at Fortis
Bank.
Jay has a bachelor degree in tourism development and recreation from Kyoung-Ki
University.
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Felix SUN
Director, Emerging Markets Team
Knight Libertas, Hong Kong
Felix SUN is a Director, Emerging Markets Sales for Knight Libertas in Hong
Kong.
Prior to joining Knight Libertas, Mr. SUN worked at RBC for two years in fixed
income and structured product sales. Previously, he was a bond portfolio
manager at Ping An bank for six years. At AXA Investment Managers, Felix was a
risk management analyst. He began his career at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
as a marketing manager in the corporate loan sales department.
Felix has a master of business administration from Ecole Superieure de
Gestion.
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