WJB Capital Group, Inc. Expands Coverage of Healthcare Industry

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- WJB Capital Group, Inc. (WJB), a privately held institutional broker-dealer and a Member of the NYSE, FINRA, SIPC and other principal exchanges, announced today the hiring of Joshua Zable (Director, Co-Head of Healthcare Strategy) and Ethan Roth (Vice President, Senior Analyst, Healthcare Strategy). Both Mr. Zable and Mr. Roth will join WJB effective Tuesday, September 7, 2010, and will focus on Medical Devices, Diagnostics and Equipment.

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Joshua and Ethan will join Biren Amin, Director and Co-Head of WJB Healthcare Strategy. WJB's robust Healthcare platform has rapidly evolved into one of the premier Healthcare offerings on Wall Street.  In addition to widening breadth within the sector, the firm's Healthcare research is complemented by its proprietary Expert Network, WJB HEALTHEdge.

Craig Rothfeld, WJB's Managing Partner said "We are thrilled about the hiring of both Josh and Ethan as they will add to our already strong industry footprint in Healthcare.  Josh and Ethan will expand not only our formal research coverage within the Healthcare space but continue to enhance our Healthcare vertical in Corporate Access, our best in class WJB HEALTHEdge expert network and our significant trading of Healthcare derivatives."

Prior to joining WJB, Joshua was a Managing Director at Natixis Bleichroeder LLC, where he ultimately led the U.S. Healthcare effort with a focus on medical equipment, devices and diagnostics.  Prior to focusing on Healthcare, Joshua worked as part of the U.S. Home Construction, Building Materials, and Specialty Retailing team, assisting in the coverage of over 20 companies ranging from deep cyclicals  to consumer products to home improvement retailing.  Before that, Joshua worked for BlackRock, Inc. from 2000 to 2004.

Joshua holds a Master's degree in Applied Economics and a Bachelor's degree with concentrations in Economics and Creative Writing from the University of Michigan.  He has been quoted frequently in various financial publications, including Barron's, Forbes.com and Investor's Business Daily.

Prior to joining WJB, Ethan was part of the Natixis Bleichroeder Healthcare team, where he focused on the medical devices, diagnostics and equipment, industry.  Previously, he worked at Thomson Reuters, consulting and assisting several large energy companies on capital markets activity.   

Ethan holds a Bachelors degree from Bowdoin College with concentrations in Government and Economics. 

About WJB Capital Group, Inc. (WJB)

WJB Capital Group, Inc. is a privately held broker-dealer and a member of the NYSE, FINRA, SIPC and other principal exchanges. Since 1993, WJB Capital has employed a partnership philosophy that focuses on customer-centric agency equity and derivative executions, macro, technical, derivative, healthcare, TMT and financial strategy, corporate access and comprehensive commission management solutions to the buy-side. WJB operates its own live trading desks for all major U.S. equity and option exchanges as well as in the global market centers of Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America, and South Africa. For more information regarding WJB please visit http://www.wjbcapital.com or call 646-344-4300.

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