KNG SECURITIES - Key Persons


Alan Pierce

Job Titles:
  • Head of High Yield and Distressed Trading

Andrea Figallo

Job Titles:
  • Global CFO

Andrea Podesta - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Co - Managing Partner
Co-managing partner, Andrea Podesta discussed how the opening of a US office was the natural next step for KNG Securities as we have been working with an increasing number of US based institutions.

Andrew Lee

Job Titles:
  • Credit Analyst

Batu Yucemen

Job Titles:
  • Fixed Income Analyst

Bruno Gennari

Job Titles:
  • Appointed LATAM Specialist
  • EM Strategist and Sales

Cagri Kutman

Job Titles:
  • Fixed Income Sales

David Floyd

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Finance

Dionne White

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager
Previously at Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein before joining KNG in 2016, Dionne is an experienced member of the operational side. She is responsible for the smooth running of KNG's settlements across all asset classes together with risk and exposure reporting, including back/middle office support working closely with KNG's clients and our Model B clearer, Pershing.

Ekaterina Fedorova

Job Titles:
  • Fixed Income Analyst

Fernando Ortega

Job Titles:
  • Head of EM Sales

Filippo Gromo

Job Titles:
  • Fixed Income Sales

Francesco Giuliani

Job Titles:
  • Fixed Income Sales

Gary Ballard

Job Titles:
  • Appointed Equity Capital Markets Expert
  • Capital Markets Expert
  • Head of Equities
Gary Ballard joins us with over 30 years of experience in equity sales, having previously worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Baring Securities.

Giorgio Simioni - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
Giorgio is Chief Operating Officer at KNG Securities, a position he has held since 2015 and Director of KNG Securities International. He is responsible for the operations, regulatory and day to day running of the company. Prior to joining KNG, Giorgio held Managing Director positions within Capital Markets at both Bank of Montreal and UFJ.

Gordon Cole

Job Titles:
  • Senior Operations Executive
Previously at JP Morgan, Mizuho Bank, Bank of Montreal, Santander & SMBC, Gordon joined KNG in 2022 to support its growing Operations / Settlements activities.

Guillermo Solis

Job Titles:
  • Fixed Income Sales

Halila Mazin

Job Titles:
  • Fixed Income Sales

Henrik Ahlstrom

Job Titles:
  • Head of Fixed Income Sales Nordics
Henrik Ahlstrom joins us to help grow our Nordics desk as we continue to rapidly expand our geographic coverage. Henrik has over twenty years of experience working in fixed income debt. His previous position was as Institutional Credit Sales Director at HSBC for sixteen years, where he held responsibility for the entire Nordic region. Prior to this, he spent six years at Handelsbanken. Henrik's appointment is the latest of recent hires focused on KNG's strategic expansion. These recent hires include Head of EM Sales Fernando Ortega, Latin America specialists Christian Laloe and Bruno Gennari, Turkish fixed income expert Cagri Kutman and CIS expert Igor Nartov.

Igor Nartov

Job Titles:
  • EM Senior Advisor and Specialist

Iman Jakani

Job Titles:
  • Fixed Income Analyst

Justin Little

Job Titles:
  • Fixed Income Sales

Justin Stratton-Christensen

Job Titles:
  • Fixed Income Sales

Lorenzo Tarquini

Job Titles:
  • Head of Debt and Special Sits Origination - Italy

Lukas Linsbichler

Job Titles:
  • Head of Fixed Income, Germany & Austria

Michael Freilich

Job Titles:
  • Fixed Income Sales

Michael Tambling

Job Titles:
  • EM Fixed Income Sales

Michele Lupo

Job Titles:
  • Global Head of Legal Affairs of KNG Group
Michele is the Global Head of Legal Affairs of KNG Group and Compliance & AML officer of KNG Securities International. Michele joined KNG Securities in 2017. Michele is an Italian lawyer admitted to the Bar of Milan with previous experience in the Banking and Finance Department of BonelliErede and in the International Capital Markets Department of Allen & Overy. Through his previous employments Michele gained a wide experience providing legal assistance to corporate issuers and banks in relation to loans, securitisations, corporate bond issuances, domestic bonds, Eurobonds, subordinated bonds, certificates, covered warrants, liability management transactions and IPOs. Michele holds a degree in Law Summa cum Laude from the LUISS University of Rome.

Nick Nugent - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner

Omar Ghalloudi

Job Titles:
  • Expert
  • Head of EM Trading

Pablo Gavelli

Job Titles:
  • Fixed Income Junior Sales

Paul Summer

Job Titles:
  • Head of Structured Notes and Financials

Peter Spraggett

Job Titles:
  • Fixed Income Sales

Ramiro Lopetegui

Job Titles:
  • EM Fixed Income Sales

Samantha French

Job Titles:
  • Operations Executive

Vincent Petrozzi

Job Titles:
  • Fixed Income Sales