BTIG hires Robert Langer to manage new convertible securities group

By Devika Patel

Knoxville, Tenn., March 8 - BTIG LLC announced in a press release that it has launched a convertible securities business to complement its existing equities, derivatives, fixed income and prime brokerage groups.

The convertible securities business will be led by managing director and head of convertible sales and trading Robert Langer, who joins BTIG along with a team of five other sales and trading professionals, Bill Feingold, Don Pizzutello, Chris Roller, Greg Sullivan and Matthew Zucker.

Prior to joining BTIG, Langer was most recently a partner at Stanfield Capital Group, a multibillion-dollar hedge fund/asset manager based in New York, where he established and was the senior portfolio manager of a convertible/capital structure arbitrage fund.

Langer graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in economics.

Feingold joins BTIG as a director and convertible trader. Feingold came from Hillside Advisors, a convertible advisory firm that he founded in 2009. Prior to Hillside, he traded convertible bonds at Goldman Sachs, was a senior portfolio manager at hedge fund FrontPoint Partners and was a portfolio manager at Clinton Group.

Feingold has a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree in business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Pizzutello will be a senior vice president and sales trader. Prior to BTIG, he was in convertible bond sales at McMahan Securities, where he was a senior salesman.

He graduated from West Virginia University with a bachelor's degree in architecture.

Roller joins as a director and sales trader. Prior to BTIG, he was at Goldman Sachs, where he was a vice president in convertible sales, managing a variety of global institutional relationships.

Roller has a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Maryland at College Park and a master's degree in business administration and finance from Fordham University.

Sullivan will be a senior vice president and sales trader. He was previously with Argent Financial Group in Dubai, where he was a managing director and head of Middle East and North African brokerage.

Sullivan is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and holds a bachelor's degree in history.

Zucker joins as a director and convertible desk analyst. He was previously at BAM Capital, a New York-based volatility arbitrage fund, where he was the sole credit analyst. Prior to joining BAM Capital in April 2008, Zucker was a credit/convertible analyst with Quattro Global Capital LLC, a New York-based convertible arbitrage fund.

Zucker graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland.

BTIG is a New York-based broker dealer.

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