{"id":44193,"date":"2014-09-25T06:46:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T10:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=44193"},"modified":"2014-09-25T06:46:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T10:46:34","slug":"hedgefund-people-btig-expands-with-2-new-hires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2014\/hedgefund-people-btig-expands-with-2-new-hires.html","title":{"rendered":"HedgeFund People: BTIG Expands With 2 New Hires"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"people\"<\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) – BTIG LLC, a global financial services firm specializing in institutional trading, investment banking and related brokerage services, is expanding its Futures and Commodities desk with the hires of Eric Silverman and Jordan Lichtenstein.<\/p>\n

Eric and Jordan are based in BTIG\u2019s New York office and will report to Robert Gagnon, Head of Commodity Futures. \u201cThese hires complement the expertise of the Futures and Commodities desk and will broaden our reach into the energy segment of the futures and OTC market,\u201d said Gagnon. \u201cBetween Eric\u2019s buy-side experience and Jordan\u2019s sell-side experience, we can offer our clients balanced insight from both the institutional and commercial client base.\u201d<\/p>\n

BTIG launched its Futures and Commodities trading desk in 2010 and now has sales traders based in New York, Chicago and London. This expansion of the desk and its commodities futures offering provides increased capability, particularly in the energy space. These new hires are part of a strategic move by BTIG to provide services to clients who have energy commodities as part of their portfolios.<\/p>\n

Eric Silverman has over 14 years of buy-side experience, most recently trading energy futures and supporting crude oil desk trading activities at Noble Americas. Prior to that, he worked at Glencore Ltd. as an oil derivatives trader and risk manager.<\/p>\n

Jordan Lichtenstein has 12 years of experience in sales trading in the energy sector. Most recently he was a sales trader with UBS for seven years, where his primary responsibilities included executing crude oil derivatives and managing client relationships. Prior to UBS, he spent five years in global energy futures at ABN AMRO, first on the NYMEX floor and then on the sales trading desk.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat started four years ago as a desk to service a niche within the base metals market has expanded to provide execution and market insight across a wide spectrum of futures products,\u201d said Anton LeRoy, BTIG\u2019s Head of Fixed Income Currency and Commodities. \u201cThe hiring of Eric and Jordan highlights our ongoing commitment to enrich that offering for our clients. We will continue to seek additional professionals to meet our clients\u2019 trading needs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – BTIG LLC, a global financial services firm specializing in institutional trading, investment banking and related brokerage services, is expanding its Futures and Commodities desk with the hires of Eric Silverman and Jordan Lichtenstein. Eric and Jordan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44193","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=44193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44194,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44193\/revisions\/44194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}