Seema Arora was appointed managing director and head of execution services for EMEA at Stifel after most recently serving at Instinet for five and half years before leaving earlier this year. Prior to joining Instinet, Arora spent almost 11 years at Kepler Cheuvreux in senior execution services sales roles and also previously spent six years at JP Morgan as head of execution sales and five years at Desdner Kleinwort as head of program trading sales.
Citadel appointed Mukunth Raghavan head of American Treasury quants, based in New York. He joined Citadel from Goldman Sachs where he most recently served as vice president within the bank’s global equities team. In an earlier stint at Goldman, Raghavan worked as vice president, quantitative strategies within the bank’s equities prime services. Elsewhere in his career, Raghavan spent three years at McKinsey & Company, most recently serving as a management consultant.
Ninety One appointed Tina Gandhi as a trader. Gandhi joined Ninety One from Muzinich & Co where she spent nearly five years, most recently serving as an emerging markets credit trader. Prior to that, Gandhi worked as a director at Mizuho, focusing on UK real money and hedge fund credit sales. Before Mizuho, Gandhi served as a director at Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking, with a focus on hedge fund credit sales.