Jefferies Hires Global Head of Business Consulting for Prime Services

Jefferies has hired Leor Shapiro as a managing director and global head of business consulting for the firm’s Global Prime Services unit.

In this new role, Shapiro will work closely with Jefferies’ sales and capital introduction teams to help managers with fund launches and expansion. He will report to John Laub, global co-Head of Prime Brokerage.

Before coming to Jefferies, Shapiro served as U.S. head of business consulting services at UBS Prime Services, where has been for nearly three years. Prior to that, he worked in asset management doing operational due dilligence, and he started his career in 2003 as an associate at RBC Capital Markets.