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Oppenheimer & Co. announced that John Stoltzfus has joined Oppenheimer as managing director and chief market strategist.

Stoltzfus will work with his associate, Matthew Naidorf, to create and produce a weekly market strategy piece along with other market commentary as required by the markets. He also expects to work closely with OAM’s chief market technician Carter Worth and Oppenheimer’s fundamental sector analysts in developing new collaborative and thematic pieces. He will be the firm’s media spokesperson for market strategy.

Stoltzfus joins OAM from his prior position as senior market strategist at Ticonderoga Securities where he provided all macroeconomic, market outlook and strategy ideas to the firm and its clients. -PR Newswire

Oppenheimer & Co. announced that Gordon Morse has joined the firm as managing director, investments and branch manager in its Atlanta, Georgia office.

Gordon reports to Bob Okin, executive vice president, national sales. -PR Newswire

Oppenheimer Holdings announced that John E. Rodstrom, Jr. has joined Oppenheimer & Co. as managing director – national public finance.

Rodstrom will assume responsibility for expanding Oppenheimer’s public finance bond capabilities nationwide. He will work out of Oppenheimer’s Fort Lauderdale office and will report to Albert Lowenthal, chief executive officer of Oppenheimer & Co.

Rodstrom has many years of experience across a variety of bond structures including hospital, energy, charter schools and a variety of other transactions. He joins Oppenheimer from Sterne, Agee & Leach, where he was managing director and head of Southeast public finance, where he initiated the firm’s public finance efforts in Florida and managed bankers. -PR Newswire

Oppenheimer & Co. announced that Craig Krinbring has joined the firm as managing director in the technology group with the investment bank.

Working out of Oppenheimer’s Palo Alto office, Krinbring will continue to focus on the semiconductor and electronics sector.

Krinbring has over 15 years of experience in advising public and private companies on strategic activities and capital raising. He joins from Citadel Securities, where he led the semiconductor banking effort. From 1998 to 2008, he worked at Citigroup in the technology investment banking group and was a core coverage officer for Citigroup’s global semiconductor team. From 1993 to 1996, he worked at Oppenheimer in the firm’s environmental technology and health care investment banking group. -PR Newswire

Oppenheimer & Co. announced that it has added new senior analysts in a number of important areas to its research department.

Bret Jones has been added as an executive director and senior analyst, covering the healthcare information technology & distribution (HCIT) sector. He moves to Oppenheimer from Brean Murray, Carret & Co.

Boris Peaker has been added as an executive director and senior analyst, covering the emerging biotechnology sector. He joins Oppenheimer from Rodman & Renshaw.

Srinivas Sundararajan has been added as an executive director and senior analyst, covering the specialty semiconductor and emerging technology sectors. He joins from Barclay’s Capital where he was covering the semiconductor capital equipment sector.

Tony Tian has been added as an executive director and senior analyst, covering the China industrials sector. He joins from Ladenburg Thalmann.

Ingrid Yin has been added as an executive director and senior analyst, covering the China healthcare, specialty chemical, and food & beverage sectors. She joins from Brean Murray Carret & Co. Yin is also a former senior research scientist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

Oppenheimer also promoted Brian Bittner, David Ferreiro and Andrew Uerkwitz to senior analysts. Bittner will covers restaurants; Ferreiro will cover life science tools and diagnostics; Uerkwitz will cover Israeli technology and diversified companies. -PR Newswire

Oppenheimer & Co. announced Stephen Todd Walker had joined as a managing director, investments. He will be based in Oppenheimer’s Philadelphia office.

Walker had been senior vice president, corporate client group director in Morgan Stanley’s global wealth management group. -The Philadelphia Inquirer

Oppenheimer announced that David Fields joined the firm as executive director – investments, and as branch manager in its Newport Beach office in Southern California. He reports to Bob Okin, executive vice president – national sales.

Before moving to Oppenheimer, Fields spent most of his career at Smith Barney after periods at Prudential-Bache and Merrill Lynch. He joined Smith Barney’s Buffalo office in 1999 as a producing sales manager. Subsequently, he moved to New York City, first as a regional sales and training officer, then as assistant to the northeast divisional director. From 2004 to 2006, he was assistant manager of Fifth Avenue branch. In 2006, he relocated to California and became branch manager of the company’s Carlsbad, California office. -PR Newswire

Oppenheimer announced that Dan Scannell joined the firm as managing director and complex manager of its North Carolina branches in Asheville, Greensboro and Charlotte, NC. Dan reports to Mark Whaley, managing director-national sales. Before moving to Oppenheimer, Dan spent 18 years at Smith Barney, where he assumed a series of positions of increasing responsibility.-PR Newswire

Oppenheimer announced that Gerry Walters will join the firm as managing director in the media & entertainment group, heading up digital media research for the firm’s growing investment bank. He will work out of Oppenheimer’s Menlo Park, CA office and will report to Bill Lisecky, Oppenheimer’s head of media & entertainment.

Since 1999, Gerry had worked at J.P. Morgan where he served as managing director and head of its internet and digital media group providing advisory, equity, equity-linked and debt-financing services to clients. Before he moved to JPM, Gerry had been an attorney in private practice. -PR Newswire

Oppenheimer & Co. announced that Marc Thompson will rejoin the firm to take up his former role as managing director and head of software banking in the technology & telecom group. He will work out of the Boston office and report to Marshall Heinberg, Oppenheimer’s head of investment and corporate banking. Since late 2007, Marc had been with CIBC Capital Partners, where he made and managed investments in the software and technology-enabled service sectors. Previously, he had headed the software investment banking team, which he founded in 2000, at CIBC World Markets. When CIBC divested its U.S. investment banking division, Marc moved to the U.S. Merchant banking group. Before joining CIBC’s investment banking division, he had been a vice president in corporate development for a publicly traded company. -PR Newswire

Oppenheimer & Co. announced that Michael Murphy and Tom Mulkeen have accepted positions as managing directors in the taxable fixed income sales and trading department. Michael and Tom will report to Robert S. Lowenthal, senior managing director-taxable fixed income trading. -PR Newswire

Oppenheimer & Co. announced the formation of a Pennsylvania municipal note public finance department. The team, which will be located in the Philadelphia branch, specializes in negotiating and underwriting short-term municipal notes and bonds throughout the U.S., especially the high-tax states in the Northeast and California.

Allison Fleitas, who heads the group, will serve as managing director, and Darren Smith will be senior director – trading. Both executives were formerly employed by Janney Montgomery Scott. Cynthia Henry Pinto, formerly of Commerce Capital Markets, will become senior director – Sales. -PR Newswire

Oppenheimer announced the addition of several recent senior hires in the investment banking department. Brian A. McCarthy has joined the firm as the head of healthcare investment banking group. Brian has more than 20 years of investment banking experience and most recently served as co-head of global healthcare at JPMorgan.

Also joining the firm as a director in healthcare is Eric Rabinowitz. Eric joins Oppenheimer from JPMorgan (and before that Bear Stearns) where he was a vice president in the healthcare group.

David Sommer has joined financial sponsors group as a managing director. David has approximately fifteen years of investment banking experience and most recently was a managing director in the financial sponsor group at JPMorgan.

Jeffrey Berson has joined technology and telecom group as a managing director. Jeff joins us from Barclays Capital where he was a managing director in the telecom group. Jeff had been with Barclays since 2007 focusing on the wireline, wireless and emerging telecom sectors. Prior to working at Barclays, Jeff worked for CIBC World Markets in the technology & telecom group. At Oppenheimer, Jeff will continue his coverage of growth companies in both the wireline and wireless sectors.-PR Newswire

Oppenheimer & Co. announced that John Gramins has joined the company’s taxable fixed income team as managing director-high-yield loan sales and trading. John began his career in 1998 on Lehman Brothers’ loan sales and trading desk. From 2000 to 2004, he served as head trader on Lehman’s par loan desk, and then moved to the distressed loan trading desk.-PR Newswire