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Frederik Westra
514 350-2834
Frederik Westra
Managing Director
 

Frederik Westra is a financial services and capital markets specialist with experience servicing institutional investors and corporate issuers in equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, financing, and mergers and acquisitions. Most recently, he was part of the leadership team at one of Canada's largest securities dealers where he oversaw research, investment banking, equity capital markets/debt capital markets/syndication, as well as institutional sales and trading. He has headed an Equity Research team and was a top-ranked financial services research analyst. He has won awards from Thomson Reuters StarMine as one of Canada's Top Stock Pickers (2011 and 2012) and a Top Earnings Estimator (2014). He also worked in equity research roles at a Canadian Bank and one of Canada's largest independent dealers. Mr. Westra holds a Bachelor of Commerce with a major in Finance and Economics from the John Molson School of Business, where he graduated with Honours.

Trading


Geneviève Coutu
514 350-3055
Geneviève Coutu
Managing Director, Head of Trading
 

Geneviève Coutu joined Laurentian Bank Securities Inc. in August 2018. With over 20 years of experience in the Securities industry, she brings an extensive expertise in Equity trading. Prior to LBS, Ms. Coutu joined Pavilion Global Markets (formerly Brockhouse Cooper) in 2003 as a Senior Institutional Sales Trader for North American and Latam Securities.

In addition, Ms. Coutu held several positions at National Bank Financial including Institutional Equity Trader, Liability Trader, and Nasdaq Market Maker. Ms. Coutu was a board member of industry committees for many years. She served as President of the Montreal Institutional Equity Traders Association (MIETA) in 2004 as well as Vice Chair of the Canadian Security Traders Association (CSTA) in 2007.

Ms. Coutu holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Finance from HEC Montréal. She has completed her IIROC licensing examinations as well as the FINRA Series 24, 37, 55 and 63 licenses.



Steven Martins
514 350-3055
Steven Martins
Director, Trading
 

Steven Martins joined Laurentian Bank Securities Inc. (LBS) in February 2021. Mr. Martins brings a broad range of capital markets knowledge, specifically in trading global equities. Prior to joining LBS, he worked as Director, Global Equities at Velocity Trade Capital Ltd. (2018-2020), and at Pavilion Global Markets Ltd. (2003-2018), occupying front, middle, and back office positions. Mr. Martins holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree, with a major in Finance, from Concordia University in Montreal. He has completed IIROC licensing examinations and holds FINRA Series 37, 57 and 63 licenses.

Specialty Products


Frederik Westra
416 865-5781
Alexander Jemetz
CFA, CMT
Managing Director Trading, Specialty Product
 

Alex Jemetz joined Laurentian Bank Securities in November 2016 as Managing Director, Preferred Share Sales and Trading, after having spent almost seven years at RBC Capital Markets as the Bank's institutional preferred share trader. Mr. Jemetz brings with him over 25 years of sales and trading experience, 20 of which have been in preferred shares. Mr. Jemetz has a degree in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Toronto, is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder, and has the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation.