Institutional sales trader veteran James Williams has been made managing director of outsourced trading solutions firm Tourmaline Europe, based out of London.
Williams has spent the best part of three decades as an institutional sales trader, starting his career at securities brokerage company Spear, Leeds & Kellogg (SLK), an outfit based in London that was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2000 in a deal worth US$6.5 billion.
Williams continued his stint at SLK under Goldman Sachs until 2002, at which point he moved to JNK Securities, a US broker‐dealer, working in institutional sales, where he spent six years in their London office.
After JNK, Williams spent almost 15 years at BTIG, a multinational institutional trading, investment banking, research and related brokerage services firm, where he worked again as an institutional sales trader.
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