| MAY 4, 2009 |
| Knight Libertas Appoints Head of Global Emerging Markets Fixed Income Team, Adds Sales and Trading Staff |
GREENWICH, Conn. and JERSEY CITY, N.J., Mr. Mullineaux is an eight-year veteran of UBS where he most recently was
Managing Director and Head of Emerging Markets Debt Sales for the Americas. He
managed a salesforce covering debt, rates, derivatives and foreign exchange
for clients in the U.S. and Latin America. At Knight Libertas, Mr. Mullineaux
reports to "After a contracting market in 2008, emerging markets debt is experiencing a burgeoning growth in new issuance and customer demand across the globe," Mr. Katcher said. "At Knight Libertas, we're actively building our emerging markets capabilities as part of our work to continually identify attractive investment opportunities in fixed income for clients. Our team of highly experienced professionals places us in a great position to offer our clients a full spectrum of emerging markets products in this expanding market." Knight Libertas also announced the hiring of four new employees, adding to
the current emerging markets fixed income team. "Knight Libertas has assembled an outstanding team of emerging markets fixed income sales and trading professionals, adding recent hires to existing operations," Mr. Mullineaux said. "Today, Knight Libertas has bolstered its emerging markets expertise and is poised to grow this business in a market environment that offers tremendous opportunity."
Biographies
Mr. Mullineaux joined Knight after eight years with UBS where he was
Managing Director and Head of Emerging Markets Debt Sales for the Americas. He
managed a salesforce covering debt, rates, derivatives and foreign exchange
for clients in the U.S. and Latin America before joining Knight in Daniel spent more than six years at Daniel has a master's degree in business administration from
Mr. Kenny has more than 25 years experience in the fixed income markets.
As Managing Director and global head of emerging markets trading and sales at
UBS, Stephen helped build and manage operations of more than 75 employees
worldwide. While at UBS for more than 15 years, he also had been Head of
IG/Crossover Risk, Head of Asia bond trading and Co-Chair of the Stephen started his career as a bond trader and has worked for DLJ, LF Rothschild and Merrill Lynch. Stephen has a bachelor of arts in English from the
Mr. Nair was Director with UBS until joining Knight Libertas in Max has a bachelor of science in Business Administration from
Mr. Quinn joined Knight Libertas in Before his career at UBS, Paul worked in the emerging markets fixed income
operations group at
Paul has a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from
George Urumov is a trader in Emerging Markets Fixed Income Sales for Knight Libertas. Most recently, Mr. Urumov was an emerging markets trader for Previously, George was a European credit trader for George has a master of science degree in finance and economics from the
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