Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. Announces New Hires in Brokerage Division
June 05 2008 - 5:15AM
Marketwired
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (TSX: TWP), a growth sector focused investment
bank, announced the hiring of Jon Fredericks as a Managing Director
on the Canadian trading desk, Chris Richards as a Managing Director
on the New York trading desk and Raj Denhoy as a Director in the
Research department who will lead coverage in the Medical Devices
sector.
Mr. Fredericks has over nine years of experience in the
securities industry and most recently was focused on the Canadian
Energy sector at Merrill Lynch. Based in Toronto, Mr. Fredericks
will be responsible for building out TWP's trading franchise in the
energy sector. He will help expand and integrate the company's
growing trading capabilities to offer a more diversified product
offering to TWP's institutional investor client base in the U.S.
and Canada. Mr. Fredericks is joined by Managing Director, Chris
Richards, who has over ten years of experience as a senior block
trader. Formerly with Banc of America Securities, Mr. Richards will
trade U.S. financial and industrial stocks.
"Our clients will experience a significantly enhanced trading
product that further leverages the best execution and cross border
opportunities that result from our recent acquisition of Westwind
Partners," said Tony Stais, Head of TWP's Trading Department.
With the addition of Raj Denhoy, Thomas Weisel Partners'
research coverage of the Healthcare sector has now grown to seven
professionals covering over 90 companies. Mr. Denhoy will be based
in New York and has over eight years of industry experience. Mr.
Denhoy is widely recognized by the investment community for his
expertise in medical technology including orthopedics, cardiology,
diagnostics and ophthalmology. Before joining Thomas Weisel
Partners, Mr. Denhoy held senior research positions at Bear
Stearns, Piper Jaffray and JP Morgan.
"Given the strong growth opportunities in the medical device
sector, it was important to add an analyst of Raj Denhoy's caliber
to the team to provide our clients with independent research
analysis of the industry," said Keith Gay, Head of TWP's Research
group.
About Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc.
Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. is an investment bank,
founded in 1998, focused principally on the growth sectors of the
economy. Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. generates revenues from
three principal sources: investment banking, brokerage and asset
management. The investment banking group is comprised of two
disciplines: corporate finance and strategic advisory. The
brokerage group provides equity and convertible debt securities
sales and trading services to institutional investors, and offers
brokerage, advisory and cash management services to high-net-worth
individuals and corporate clients. The asset management group
consists of: private equity, public equity and distribution
management. Thomas Weisel Partners is headquartered in San
Francisco with additional offices in Baltimore, Boston, Calgary,
Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, New York, Portland, Silicon Valley,
Toronto, London, Mumbai and Zurich. For more information, please
visit www.tweisel.com.
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