BGC Names Industry Veteran as CFO.Robert West Joins BGC BGC General Cable Corporation (stock symbol) BGC Billy Graham Center BGC Baptist General Conference (formerly Swedish Baptist Denomination) BGC Boys & Girls Club BGC Bubblegum Crisis Management Team LONDON -- BGC Partners, Inc. ("BGC"), a leading inter-dealer broker providing integrated voice and electronic execution and other brokerage services to banks, brokerage houses and investment banks worldwide, announced that Robert K. West has been named Chief Financial Officer. Mr. West brings to BGC over 25 years of experience in the global financial markets, most recently as Chief Financial Officer of Thomas Weisel Partners Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TWPG), often shortened to just TWP or TWeisel, is a U.S. middle-market and growth focused investment banking firm based in San Francisco, California. Group, Inc. He will report to Lee M. Amaitis, Chairman and Chief Executive of BGC, and be based in BGC's London office. Mr. West was responsible for financial management, controllership, and reporting at Thomas Weisel. Earlier, he served as Global Controller and Managing Director of Barclays Global Investors Barclays Global Investors is a subsidiary of British-based Barclays Bank which is in the investment management industry. It is the largest corporate money manager in the world, with over £936 billion (US$1.77 trillion) under management as of March 2006[1]. and in a number of increasingly senior positions at Salomon Smith Barney, including Controller of that firm's global equity business unit. Prior to joining Salomon Smith Barney, Mr. West was a member of the audit staff of Deloitte & Touche LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , focused on clients in the financial services industry. Upon Mr. West's appointment, Douglas R. Barnard, who had served as both BGC's Chief Financial Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P., will concentrate solely on his role at Cantor. Mr. Amaitis said, "On behalf of the entire management team of BGC, I would like to extend our appreciation to Doug for his extensive contribution to BGC's finance function while maintaining his significant responsibilities with Cantor." About BGC BGC Partners is a leading inter-dealer broker, providing integrated voice and electronic services for wholesale market participants worldwide. BGC is active in the global fixed income, interest rate, foreign exchange and derivative markets, offering both telephone and screen-based price discovery, trade execution, straight-through processing and access to electronic trading services from eSpeed Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ESPD ESPD Enfants En Situation Particulièrement Difficile (French) ESPD Engine Shutdown Protective Device ). The firm, named after fixed income trading innovator B. Gerald Cantor B. Gerald Cantor ( January 17 1916– July 17 1996 ) was the founder and chairman of securities firm Cantor Fitzgerald and an important philanthropist supporting the visual arts institutions in the United States. , has offices in London, New York, Copenhagen, Nyon, Milan, Paris, Mexico, Beijing (representative office), Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore and Sydney. To learn more, please visit www.bgcpartners.com. |
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