Nomura has hired Steve Kilcullen as head of flow derivatives sales, where he will expand the firms equity options business as a producer and manager.
Kilcullen will focus on developing the desks trading with convertible arbitrage and special situation clients, and look to enhance Nomuras delivery of cross-asset trading solutions for customers.
Steve is well known to the market for his alpha-generating ideas and strong work ethic on behalf of clients, and we especially look forward to offering our customers greater expertise and investment strategies across the capital structure, Ciaran OKelly, head of equities in the Americas, says. He will provide intensity and leadership on the derivatives desk and across the floor, as well as develop our arbitrage franchise.
Kilcullen joins from UBS Securities, where he was most recently head of hedge fund flow derivative sales. Before joining UBS, from 2004 to 2006, he was a buy-side trader of credit and equity derivatives, fixed income, risk arbitrage and capital structure arbitrage at Wachovia. He began his career at SBC OConnor in 1997 as a trader of convertibles and equity options.
Before his career on Wall Street, Kilcullen was an infantry officer in the United States Army from 1994 to 1997, where he was Airborne and Ranger qualified. He also served as a Captain in the Army National Guard from 1997 to 2004. He graduated from Vanderbilt University with a bachelors degree in economics in 1993.
We are tremendously excited to have Steve lead our flow derivatives sales effort and look forward to a significant expansion of our client base and market share under his guidance, Samir Patel, head of US execution sales, says.
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