NEW YORK, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ITG (NYSE: ITG), a leading independent execution and research broker, today announced the hiring of Guo Chenggang as a Hong-Kong based research analyst covering China's growing online gaming sector. Mr. Guo is the first ITG Investment Research analyst to be based in the Asia Pacific region.
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Prior to ITG, Mr. Guo served as head of research at Business Connect China and as a senior analyst at JLM Pacific Epoch. He also previously worked as a manager at video game developer Ubisoft. His research at ITG covers China's online multiplayer games, webgames, mini games and information portals, including firms such as NetEase (NASDAQ: NTES), Sohu (NASDAQ: SOHU), Shanda Games (NASDAQ:GAME) and Giant Interactive (NYSE:GA).
"Chenggang is well versed in the dynamics of the Chinese online gaming sector and I am happy to welcome him to the team," said Tony Berkman, CEO of ITG Investment Research. "His insights into the industry, combined with analysis of our proprietary data sources, will provide a fresh perspective to our institutional clients."
ITG Investment Research provides differentiated, data-driven analysis of over 300 companies in more than 20 sectors, including recent research initiations on Burger King Holdings, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), DirecTV (NASDAQ:DTV) and Ann Inc. (NYSE:ANN). ITG IR also provides macro energy and economic research and bespoke research projects. To learn more about ITG's research capabilities, contact info@itg.com.
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