Deutsche Bank AG announced five senior additions to its equities business in North America.
Joseph Spinelli will join the bank in August as a managing director and head of North America cash equity trading. He will be based in New York and report to Thomas Patrick, head of equities for North America.
Spinelli joins from Goldman Sachs & Co., where he was a managing director and financial services sector head for equity trading. Prior to Goldman, he was the head equity trader at Ziff Brother Investments.
Brad Kurtzman will join the bank in July as a managing director and head of quantitative trading. He will be based in New York and report to Patrick.
Kurtzman brings more than 12 years of trading experience, most recently as head of US equity derivatives trading at Citibank.
Jeff Christian will join the bank in July as a managing director in equity derivatives sales, based in San Francisco. He will oversee West Coast coverage and report to Greg Kuppenheimer, head of US equity derivatives sales.
Christian will join the bank from Credit Suisse, where he spent four years managing West Coast equity derivative sales. Prior to Credit Suisse, he was an executive director at Morgan Stanley, covering hedge funds and asset managers.
Jonathan Simon will join in July as a managing director in equity derivatives sales. In this New York-based role, he will manage relationships with hedge funds and asset managers, and report to Kuppenheimer.
Simon has more than 20 years of experience and spent the last eight years as a managing director in equity derivative sales at Citigroup.
Zahid Biviji started in April as a managing director in index flow trading. He is based in New York and reports to Tom Jarck, head of US index flow trading.
Biviji joined from Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he spent more than 10 years, most recently as head of US single stock options trading. -Business Wire
