Kepler Cheuvreux hires AXA IM senior fairness gross sales dealer for top contact gross sales position

Kepler Cheuvreux has made expanded its prime contact buying and selling gross sales workforce with the addition of Leam Conley.  

Conley can be primarily based on the company’s London place of job in his new position, and is ready to improve Kepler Cheuvreux’s efforts to construct out its UK footprint and consumer providing.  

He’s going to report back to Chris Jay, head of gross sales buying and selling, UK consumer zone, and steps into the brand new position efficient June 2026.  

Talking to The TRADE, Chris McConville, world head of execution services and products and buying and selling, stated: “We’re extremely joyful to welcome Leam Conley to our company. Based totally in our London place of job, he’ll play a key position in supporting our UK shoppers, and in accelerating expansion within the area, and can sign up for in June. 

“Reporting to Chris Jay in London, Conley will paintings in our prime contact gross sales buying and selling workforce and brings over 15 years of enjoy, underscoring the significance of the United Kingdom to our broader KCx technique.” 

The transfer marks a change from the buy-side to the sell-side for Conley, who joins Kepler Cheuvreux from AXA Funding Managers, the place he spent just about seven years.  

Conley to begin with joined AXA IM as an fairness dealer in 2019, ahead of stepping right into a senior buying and selling place in 2024.  

Previous to this, he spent greater than 3 years at Shut Brothers as a multi-asset broker, and started his business occupation in a business improve position at RBC Capital Markets, operating throughout world equities and glued source of revenue.  

Lately, Kepler Cheuvreux’s KCx workforce spans 14 monetary hubs in Europe and america throughout places together with Amsterdam, Brussels, Dubai, and New York.  

Conley is the newest addition to KCx’s prime contact gross sales workforce, following a spate of hires for the reason that starting of 2026.  

Maximum lately, in April 2026, Sidonie Vasseur joined as a dealer at the table, primarily based in Paris.  

Her appointment adopted a four-year tenure at UBS, the place she served as a move asset execution dealer, operating throughout more than a few other asset categories, together with equities, mounted source of revenue, FX, ETDs, price range and hedge price range.