Sam Hart has joined Stifel as a director, high-touch sales trader, further expanding the firm’s execution services team, The TRADE can reveal.
London-based Hart brings 15 years of industry experience to his new role, and will report to Mark Small, managing director at Stifel.
He joins from Berenberg, where he spent more than six years as a senior market maker.
Prior to this, he also served as a UK equities trader at Winterflood Securities, serving in this role for nearly nine years.
Stifel confirmed the appointment when contacted by The TRADE.
Hart’s new position builds on other high and low-touch trading hires for Stifel in recent months, across both US and EMEA equities.
In October, The TRADE revealed that Jack Harvey and Yannis Bouchakour had joined the firm’s European execution services team to focus on low-touch trading, based out of London and Paris respectively.
Both individuals will come under the leadership of Seema Arora, managing director and head of execution services at Stifel.
Additionally, the firm also hired Matthew McNestry as a managing director in low-touch trading in September, joining from Euronext, where he spent almost five years as head of sales, global buy-side and liquidity providers.
The expansion of Stifel’s execution services team in Europe also aligns with the firm’s recent success at The TRADE’s Leaders in Trading event in London, taking home the Best Client Service award in the Algorithmic Trading category earlier this month.