Neil is joint head of trading at Hobart. He joined the business in December 2005 as a sales trader before being appointed as Head of Trading in 2008. He works closely with Darryll Warnford-Davis the director of institutional sales as well as being involved with the development of our worldwide automated execution services. Neil also looks after institutions, hedge funds and ultra high net worth clients.

Neil began his career in 1996 at Deutsche Bank working in a trainee scheme throughout the bank. He later worked in back/middle office roles before joining the sales team at Townsley & Co in 1999.

Email: michael.wilson@hobartcapital.com
Direct Line: 020 7070 5636

Michael joined the business in Jan 2006 and became the Head of Fixed Income Sales in November 2008. He has been successful in increasing his business flows whilst at Hobart’s and has been actively working on increasing the team and the business’ market share.

Michael began his career at Wedd, Durlacher Mordaunt, a stockjobber and specialized in Gilts trading. Wedd was taken over by Barclays Bank (together with stockbrokers deZoete and Bevan) in 1986 to form BZW. At BZW,  operating from the Far East, he covered all the U.K and European bond markets.

Justin is an equity sales trader specialising in pan European securities. With a solid background based on many years as both a fund manager and a broker, he generates both long and short equity, ETF and hedging ideas for his strong client base of UK and US institutions and hedge fund clients.

Justin started his financial career in 1987 and has worked for various major UK and US names including Salomon Bros, DKW, JP Morgan & Cardinal Asset Management, before joining Hobart from MF Global in October 2008.

Steve is in equity sales covering pan European securities. He has established good relationships with UK and European based hedge funds and institutional clients. Steve predominantly supports long and short funds but also has relationships with long only funds.

Steve started his career 9 years ago, his last position before joining Hobart was as a sales trader at MF Global where he had been for 2 years.

Email: noel.oconnell@hobartcapital.com
Direct Line: 020 7070 5645

Noel is a Pan European Equity Sales Trader, covering London based institutions.

Noel started career at Schroder Securities in 1997 working in a variety of back, middle and desk assistant roles. In 2000 Schroder’s Securities was acquired by Citigroup and within two years Noel was moved to join the Citigroup trading team where he acted as a Market Maker in UK TMT, European Consumers and Pan European Consumers.