• John G. Kennedy has joined Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities Inc. as managing director and head of capital markets. In this newly created position, Kennedy will work closely with the firm’s securities and investment banking teams to help drive the firm’s growing role in capital markets activities in the energy sector.

The addition of Kennedy will further enhance the firm’s ability to advise corporate clients on balance-sheet issues and expand its role in new and secondary energy issuances.

Kennedy has more than 25 years of experience in the capital markets industry. Previously, he worked with Merrill Lynch in Atlanta, Ga., as well as with Deutsche Bank in its equity capital markets group from 2000 to 2003 in New York, and with DLJ and Kidder Peabody in similar capacities from 1991 to 2000. He started his career with Bankers Trust Co.