Neil Terence O’Connor has joined Banca Akros as an equity sales trader, based in Milan.
O’Connor brings 35 years of markets experience to his new role, where he will cover local and foreign institutional clients, reporting to Giovani Musarra, head of sales and trading and Stefano Ottavi, head of brokerage at Banca Akros, O’Connor tells The TRADE.
O’Connor joins the Italian investment bank from brokerage business MIT SIM, where he spent almost two years as a specialist on the EGM small caps Italian market.
Prior to this, he spent 15 years at ACCIONA Group’s Spanish asset manager, Bestinver, providing sales trading and execution services for Italian Swiss, US and UK-based institutional clients.
Prior to this, he also worked in equity-related roles at Citi and Schroders, based in Milan and London respectively.
Banca Akros had not responded to a request for comment at the time of publication.