Antoine Lescher has been promoted to head of Paris sales trading at Instinet.
He reports to Hellfried Schram, head of Instinet Europe.
Instinet, owned by Nomura, provides electronic trading and execution services globally.
Earlier this year, high-touch specialist David Ramirez left the company for rival Liquidnet.
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Lescher has more than 25 years of industry experience and has been executive director of equity sales trading at Instinet since January. He held the same role at Credit Suisse for more than five years and at Barclays Investment Bank for close to a decade.
Earlier in his career, Lescher was head of the algorithmic and portfolio trading desk at Oddo Securities and part of the algorithmic and portfolio trading sales team at JP Morgan Chase.
