JMP Group Announces Changes in Sales and Trading Leadership

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--JMP Group LLC (NYSE: JMP), an investment banking and alternative asset management firm, today announced changes in the management of the institutional brokerage division at JMP Securities. James O’Day has been named head of institutional sales, and Charles Sweeney, JMP Securities’ director of sales and trading, has been appointed to JMP Group’s operating committee. O’Day, a managing director based in the firm’s Boston office for more than a decade, will continue to report to Sweeney, also a managing director, who is based in New York.