Knight Capital hires three new managing directors for capital markets

By Marisa Wong

Milwaukee, June 10 - Knight Capital Group, Inc. has appointed Mark C. Aitken, David A. Barcus and David Lessen as managing directors in capital markets, effective immediately, according to a press release.

Aitken is responsible for managing the capital markets team in Europe and is based in Knight's London office. Barcus leads high-yield capital markets, and Lessen directs convertibles capital markets. Barcus and Lessen are based in Knight's Greenwich, Conn. office.

Previously, Aitken was at HBOS working in the corporate bonds business, offering high-yield and debt private placement solutions to Bank of Scotland's private equity and mid-cap clients in the United Kingdom and continental Europe.

Prior to HBOS, Aitken was a managing director and head of high-yield capital markets at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. Before that, he worked at a London-based affiliate of JPMorgan, Saudi International Bank, where he was head of capital markets.

Aitken has a B.S. in economics from the London School of Economics.

Barcus was formerly a managing director at MTN Capital Partners, where he was responsible for leveraged acquisition transactions as a principal investor. Before that, he worked at BNP Paribas' leveraged finance and high-yield businesses as managing director, head of high-yield syndicate and managing director, loan and high-yield capital markets, North America.

He has also held positions at the Bank of Nova Scotia, Ehrlich Bober & Co. and Bear Stearns & Co. Inc.

Barcus has a bachelor's in engineering science with a concentration in chemical engineering from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from New York University.

Lessen is a former managing director, head of convertible bond origination at BroadpointGleacher. Previously, he was with UBS Investment Bank and was a managing director in the global healthcare, investment banking group.

He has also held positions at Zurich Capital Markets, J.P. Morgan, Toronto Dominion Securities and Goldman Sachs.

Lessen holds a bachelor's in mechanical engineering, a master of engineering in aerospace engineering and an MBA from Cornell University in addition to a Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Knight Capital is a financial services firm headquartered in Jersey City, N.J.

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