OREANDA-NEWS. Renaissance Capital, a leading emerging- and frontier-markets investment bank, has appointed David George as Managing Director, Head of London Trading.

Starting in March, David will be based in London, reporting to Renaissance Capital's Global Head of Equities, Ben Samuels; and will work closely with the Firm's Global Head of Sales Trading Chris Lantos in London, its Head of Russian Equity Trading Alexei Bachurin in Russia, and Head of Africa Execution Rob Kay in South Africa, to ensure Renaissance delivers seamless execution across its platform to clients. David will support the Firm's efforts to grow its Turkey and CEE businesses, and also will play an important role in frontier markets as it expands into the MENA region.

Prior to joining Renaissance, David had nearly 20 years of experience in emerging markets. He spent 13 years at Merrill Lynch, the last five of which were heading the EM trading desk. Most recently, he spent seven years at Goldman Sachs, where his last role was Chief Operational Officer of the emerging markets equity business.

Commenting on the appointment, Ben Samuels said: “We are excited to welcome David to the Renaissance team as Head of London Trading. He has a proven track record of success in emerging markets, and we are confident that David will bring his deep market knowledge and experience to one of the most important parts of our business. We wish David great success in his new role.”

With this appointment, Renaissance Capital continues to boost its global team with world-class professionals. Among its recent hires are Robert Lamprecht, who joined the Firm as Head of African Sales; Amr Aboushaban (Vice President in Equities Sales team) Harry Stanford (Director in Equity Sales Trading in London) and Ozlem Turgay (Equity Sales in the Firm's Istanbul office).