Introducing a selection of the
nominees for Equity broker sales
person of the year
K&KGC would like to thank all of the nominees for our buy-side award, which recognises the top broker
contacts as chosen by the buy side. The final winner will be announced on 16 November at The Buysiders’ Choice awards dinner hosted jointly by K&KGC and The Trade at The Savoy hotel in London. We
would like to wish our nominees good luck, and we look forward to seeing you there!
Oliver Opgen-Rhein
Choo Guan Yeoh
Mark Freeman
Paul Hidaka
senior equity sales trader
HSBC Germany
Managing Director
UBS
Head of Electronic Trading Sales
Kepler Cheuvreux
Senior Electronic Salestrader
JPMorgan
Choo Guan Yeoh joined UBS in
2001 and has been involved in
Equities business in the APAC
region, covering ASEAN, Hong
Kong, China, Taiwan and India.
She is now based in Singapore,
managing Singapore Equities since
2012 and ASEAN Equities currently.
Her tenure in the region has proven
instrumental in conducting block
transactions.
Mark Freeman joined Kepler
Cheuvreux in September 2008
to head sales of the electronic
trading product to the firm’s
priority research accounts, with
particular focus on institutions in
the UK, Holland and Scandinavia.
His current role is Head of AES
Sales and Sales Trading, covering
the firm’s European accounts.
Mark has over 20 years’
experience in the electronic
trading space. He initially joined
Instinet in 1990, where he was
head of UK and European sales.
He then spent 5 years at ITG
Europe, covering European
institutions and hedge funds
and in addition, has worked for
Portware and Nyfix.
Paul Hidaka is a senior salestrader
on JPMorgan’s Electronic Trading
desk in New York. He graduated
from the University of Notre Dame
in 2004 and joined JPMorgan in the
firm’s Tokyo office, where he started
his career in Portfolio Trading
before moving into Electronic
Trading. Paul has been in New York
since 2010 where he focuses on
European and Asian based clients
trading into the Americas.
Oliver Opgen-Rhein joined the
bank in mid 2000 and serves
German-speaking customers
around the theme Global Sales
Trading with a focus on German
mid caps, European products
and emerging markets. Oliver
has accompanied several capital
market transactions such as share
buybacks, placements, IPOs and
stake buildings in recent years.
Since 2009 he has always been
top ranked in different Sales
Trading catagories of the well
regarded "Thompson Extel" client
survey. Previously, Oliver worked
at Deutsche Bank in various
departments, thus bringing more
than 20 years of experience in the
industry.
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