ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FBR Capital Markets
Corporation (Nasdaq: FBCM) (FBR Capital Markets), a leading investment bank
serving the middle market, announced today that Jon M. Jensen and Michael
Derby have joined the firm's Institutional Brokerage. Mr. Jensen has been
hired as Managing Director and Co-Head of Sales Trading in Boston, and Mr.
Derby has joined the New York Sales Trading team as Senior Vice President.
Jon M. Jensen has more than 20 years of experience sales trading in
institutional equities, having spent the last six years in Bear Stearns'
Boston office as a Senior Managing Director. Prior to Bear Stearns, he held
senior trading positions at both Dresdner Wasserstein and NatWest Securities.
Michael Derby, a former Managing Director at Bear Stearns, has joined FBR
Capital Markets' New York Sales Trading team. Mr. Derby adds more than 14
years of experience, having also held positions in institutional sales and
trading at Merrill Lynch and Kadem Capital, LLC.
"FBR Capital Markets is committed to cultivating and expanding its
brokerage operations and to reinforcing existing revenue streams in support of
the firm's aggressive strategic plan," said Monte Lehmkuhler, Senior Managing
Director and Head of Trading. "We will continue to strengthen our Sales
Trading team with experienced, talented professionals capable of leveraging
our entire brokerage platform."
FBR Capital Markets Corporation, a majority-owned subsidiary of Friedman,
Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc., provides investment banking*, merger and
acquisition advisory services*, institutional brokerage*, research*, and asset
management and private wealth services. FBR Capital Markets focuses capital
and financial expertise on seven industry sectors: consumer, diversified
industrials, energy & natural resources, financial institutions, insurance,
real estate, and technology, media & telecom. FBR Capital Markets is
headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with offices in
Arlington, VA; Boston; Dallas; Houston; Irvine; London, England; New York; San
Francisco; and Sydney, Australia. For more information, please visit
www.fbrcapitalmarkets.com.
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