Imperial Capital adds Glionna, Marchakitus to credit sales team

By Marisa Wong

Morgantown, W.Va., May 3 – Imperial Capital Group, LLC hired credit analysts Jonathan Glionna and Scott Marchakitus to the firm’s credit sales and trading analysis team designed to create global trading ideas for its institutional investors, according to a press release.

Glionna joins the financials analysis team in New York covering global banks, insurance and financials, while Marchakitus joins the high-grade sales and trading analysis team also in New York to cover investment-grade and crossover corporate credits.

Glionna joins Imperial Capital as a managing director and senior desk analyst with 20 years of industry experience and will primarily cover global financials including European banks and Latin American banks for Imperial Capital’s credit sales and trading group.

Glionna spent the last eight years at Barclays as a managing director as head of global bank credit research in London and, most recently, the head of US. equity strategy research in New York.

Glionna began his career with Lehman Brothers in New York as a vice president in the fixed-income research group covering the U.S. financial sector including banks and mortgages. After that, he joined Wellington Management Co. in Boston as a vice president and fixed-income analyst with a focus on U.S., European, and Japanese banks and U.S. finance and brokerage companies. Glionna later returned to Lehman Brothers in New York as a senior vice president.

Glionna holds a B.S. in quantitative methods from Babson College in Massachusetts.

Marchakitus joins Imperial Capital as a managing director and senior desk analyst with more than 22 years of industry experience and will primarily cover investment-grade and crossover corporate credits for Imperial Capital’s credit sales and trading group.

Most recently, Marchakitus was the director of credit research at Goldman Sachs overseeing investment-grade and high-yield credit research, while also covering North American and European telecom, cable and satellite operators.

Prior to Goldman Sachs, Marchakitus worked with JPMorgan in New York and London for 10 years as a vice president in the fixed-income research group covering a variety of sectors including TMT, gaming, transportation, energy and chemicals. Marchakitus began his career as a financial analyst at Citibank in New York.

Marchakitus holds an M.S. in finance from the University of Baltimore and a B.S. from Towson University. In addition, he holds the chartered financial analyst (CFA) designation from the CFA Institute.

“With the hiring of these veteran analysts, we continue to demonstrate our commitment to creating trading ideas for our clients,” Tom Corcoran, president of Imperial Capital, commented in the release.

“Both Jonathan and Scott come to Imperial with extensive credit analysis experience and established track records within both the U.S. and European markets, further distinguishing Imperial as a global leader in credit sales & trading institutional analysis.”

Imperial Capital is a full-service investment bank based in Los Angeles.

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