{"id":16459,"date":"2010-06-29T08:09:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T12:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16459"},"modified":"2010-06-29T08:15:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T12:15:33","slug":"people-moves-convertible-securities-and-hedge-fund-specialist-joins-cowen-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/people-moves-convertible-securities-and-hedge-fund-specialist-joins-cowen-group.html","title":{"rendered":"People Moves: Convertible Securities And Hedge Fund Specialist Joins Cowen Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund manager alternative investment specialist Cowen Group, Inc. has hired Thomas O’Mara as Head of Equity Derivatives and Convertibles. O’Mara will be primarily responsible for expanding the firm’s equity derivative capabilities and building out a presence in the convertible market. He will be based in New York.<\/p>\n

O’Mara spent over 14 years at Credit Suisse First Boston where he held a number of senior positions including Global Head of Convertible Securities, Global Head of Cash Equities and Global Chief Risk Officer for the equities division. He also served as a member of the Global Equity Management Committee. Prior to Credit Suisse First Boston, Tom spent five years at Lehman Brothers in the convertible securities group. O’Mara has also spent time on the buy side, including managing multi-strategy assets in a hedge fund structure.<\/p>\n

“Tom is a professional with exceptionally broad experience in equity derivatives and convertible trading activities,” said Peter Cohen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cowen Group. “Tom is ideally suited to work with John O’Donoghue our Head of Equities to lead the growth of our sales and trading platform, where we continue to expand our product and market reach.”<\/p>\n

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New York (HedgeCo.net) – Hedge fund manager alternative investment specialist Cowen Group, Inc. has hired Thomas O’Mara as Head of Equity Derivatives and Convertibles. O’Mara will be primarily responsible for expanding the firm’s equity derivative capabilities and building out a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news","category-people-moves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16461,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16459\/revisions\/16461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}