LONDON, June 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --
Canaccord Genuity is pleased to welcome five senior
professionals to its capital markets business in the UK &
Europe. The group brings deep
regional expertise and relationships, and will be able to access
the vast resources available across Canaccord Genuity's integrated
global platform to help clients in UK and Europe access domestic and international
partnerships and investment opportunities.
"These strategic additions to our team represent an important
development for our capital markets business at a time when we are
seeing increasing opportunities to bring companies to market and
help them become more globally successful," said Alexis de Rosnay, Chief Executive Officer of
Canaccord Genuity Limited, UK & Europe and Senior Executive Vice President,
Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. "In a post MiFID II environment, we
have placed a strong focus on strengthening our core capabilities
in key sectors and delivering a focused, actionable equity research
product that adds value for our investing clients."
Alex Aylen joins as Head of
Corporate Sales and she brings fifteen years of experience to her
role. Most recently she was Head of Sales, Growth Companies at
Cenkos Securities, where she worked for more than 10 years.
Bobbie Hilliam, joins as Head of
Corporate Broking and brings a mix of corporate finance expertise
and established relationships, having spent more than six years
focused on growth companies with Cenkos Securities and prior to
that, more than a decade with Evolution Securities. They will work
closely with Canaccord Genuity's broader capital markets teams to
deliver a comprehensive range of services and expertise, including
public offerings, private placements and corporate support services
for emerging and established companies in the UK.
Joanna Parsons has worked in the
City for more than 25 years and is a top-ranked Insurance and
Specialty Financials analyst. In 2017, she was ranked #1 Earnings
Estimator for the Insurance sector by Thompson Reuters and she was
also voted Analyst of the Year by the insurance industry in the
2015 Reactions London Market Awards. Most recently, she was an
Executive Director and Head of Research at Stockdale Securities and
previously she was Head of UK Mid-Market Research at RBS Global
Banking & Markets.
Justin Bates has covered the
Financials sector since 1997, having started his career as a member
of the Financials and Insurance team at ING Groep N.V. Most
recently he was Head of Diversified Financials at Liberum Capital,
where his team was ranked 2nd in the 2017 Extel rankings.
Previously he covered European Financials at Keefe Bruyette &
Woods and also served as Head of Financials research for Numis
Securities.
Portia Patel is an equity
research analyst with six years of experience covering Diversified
Financials. Most recently, she covered UK specialist banks and
lenders, asset and wealth managers, IDBs and exchanges for Liberum
Capital and previously she covered European diversified financials
at RBC Capital Markets in the UK.
ABOUT CANACCORD GENUITY
Canaccord Genuity is the global capital markets division of
Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. (TSX: CF), offering institutional and
corporate clients idea-driven investment banking, merger and
acquisition, research, sales and trading services from offices in
10 countries worldwide. Our team of nearly 1,000 capital markets
and advisory professionals has industry and transactional expertise
in 18 key sectors of the global economy. We are committed to
providing valued services to our clients throughout the entire
lifecycle of their business and operating as a gold standard
independent investment bank - expansive in resources and reach, but
targeted in industry expertise, market focus and individual client
attention.
More information is available at
http://www.canaccordgenuity.com
ABOUT CANACCORD GENUITY GROUP INC.
Through its principal subsidiaries, Canaccord Genuity Group Inc.
(the Company) is a leading independent, full-service financial
services firm, with operations in two principal segments of the
securities industry: wealth management and capital markets. Since
its establishment in 1950, the Company has been driven by an
unwavering commitment to building lasting client relationships. We
achieve this by generating value for our individual, institutional
and corporate clients through comprehensive investment solutions,
brokerage services and investment banking services. The Company has
wealth management offices located in Canada, the UK, Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man and Australia. Canaccord Genuity, the
international capital markets division, operates in North America, UK & Europe, Asia,
Australia and the Middle East. To us there are no foreign
markets.[TM]
Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. is publicly traded under the symbol
CF on the TSX.
Christina Marinoff, Vice
President, Investor Relations & Communications, Phone:
+1-416-687-5507, email: christina.marinoff@canaccord.com,
http://www.canaccordgenuitygroup.com