Traders Magazine Liquidnet appointed John Emmert as Head of Trading Desk for the Americas. The agency-only Trading Desk operates within Liquidnet’s Execution and Quantitative Services group. In his new role, Emmert will focus on developing a new trading experience that brings together specialized institutional expertise and insight, unique liquidity search tools, and real-time analytics across the desk’s algorithmic program and single-stock trading capabilities. Based in New York, he reports directly to Liquidnet’s Head of Execution and Quantitative Services, Americas, Mike Capelli. Emmert has more than two decades of trading and client relationship building experience. Most recently, he worked at ITG as Director on the Global Portfolio Trading team, previously, Emmert worked for 10 years at Deutsche Bank Securities as Director in the Global Program Sales and Trading Group and held senior level trading and sales positions at Société Générale, Susquehanna International Group, BNP Paribas, and Bankers Trust.