Execution Ltd Expands Utilities Team with Two New Appointments
LONDON, 7 December 2009 - Execution Ltd, the agency broker, has further expanded its fast growing equities research team with appointments of Andrew Fisher and Tom Lees to join its utilities team.
They join Lawson Steele, head of power research, in line with the firm’s objective of rapidly expanding the firm’s utilities sector coverage.
Andrew Fisher joins Execution with 13 years’ experience in the securities industry the last 11 of which have focused on the utilities sector. Most recently, he was the Vice President and a Senior Analyst at Pioneer Investments in Dublin where he headed the company’s utilities coverage. Previously, he was the Head of Equity Analysis and a Global Utilities Analyst at Barclays Wealth in London. He has an MBA from Warwick Business School and a First Class BSc in Economics from the University of Warwick.
Tom Lees joins the company with 5 years’ experience at Dresdner Kleinwort (now Commerzbank) where he worked as an Associate since 2007. His recent transaction experience focused on companies in the power and energy industries. He has a MA in Mathematics from St.John’s, Cambridge.
Lawson Steele said: ‘We are delighted to have made such rapid progress in building out our utilities team with these two top-class appointments which are an important step in extending our utilities capabilities.”
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Execution Ltd Boosts Reinsurance Team with Tony Pointing Appointment
Execution Ltd has boosted the capability of its Lloyd’s reinsurance broker with the appointment of Tony Pointing at Execution Insurance Products.
Mr Pointing was Chairman and Managing Director of Anthony Pointing Limited, the broking firm which he founded and subsequently sold to Jardine Thompson Graham. Thereafter, he held senior positions at Aon and Guy Carpenter.
Matt FitzGerald, Head of Reinsurance at Execution, said: “We are delighted to have Tony joining us. It says a lot about what we have achieved in the last two years that such a well regarded and established market professional would want to become part of our team. He is a great addition to the further development of our reinsurance platform.
“We offer a unique distribution capability to our clients and one that offers a truly independent and dedicated service. We provide competitive, professional, bespoke capital and reinsurance solutions for our client base.”
Tony Pointing said: “Execution offers an unrivalled and innovative broking platform broking platform to its reinsurance clients and I am looking forward to working with the team to serve clients and to help in the development and expansion of this exciting business.”
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Execution Ltd Boosts Research Team with Lawson Steele Appointment
Execution Ltd, the agency broker, has boosted its fast growing equities research team with the appointment of Lawson Steele as head of power research, to lead the firm’s utilities coverage.
The firm intends rapidly to grow its coverage of the utilities sector with a number of additional team hires to be completed by the end of the year.
With number one positions in analyst rankings going back to 1992, Mr Steele joins Execution Ltd with 22 years’ experience as an equities analyst covering the utilities industry in Europe, the USA , Latin America and Globally. Most recently, he was Executive Director of the Utilities Specialist Sales division at UBS, at which firm he held a range of senior positions since 1997. He was previously at Paribas Capital Markets for three years, latterly as Head of Latin American power research. He trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse.
Martin Dolan, head of research at Execution Ltd, said, “With an enviable track record of analyst survey rankings Lawson is a great appointment to launch and lead Execution’s utilities coverage. We’re delighted and proud that he has chosen to join Execution.”
Lawson Steele added, “"I was attracted to Execution by its ability to focus exclusively on the needs of the client, outside the constraints of an integrated house matched by the resources that it is putting behind the development of its research capability. Execution is hungry for success and is well on the way to building a unique research franchise of senior analysts with a combination of experience and originality to offer clients output of real value.
“In utilities, we will build an experienced team with insightful industry views on how the key drivers in the sector impact specific company dynamics and valuation.”
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