About our Managing Member

Anita Hill Sands, IFP’s managing member, has over 20 years of experience in Equity Finance.  She began her career at Merrill Lynch where she opened their securities lending office in Tokyo, traded corporate bonds on their Repo desk in NY and helped build their equity swaps business. After fourteen years at Merrill, she moved to Bear Stearns before starting the Equity Finance desk in NY for the broker dealer arm of Crédit Industriel et Commercial.  It was at CIC where she utilized her vast international experience, her knowledge of a diverse range of Equity Finance products and built her own team. Anita’s unique combination of skills places her in a strong position to understand client recruitment needs in all aspects of equity and debt trading. Anita has an MBA from Fordham University.