Jefferies taps consumer products chief

Jefferies & Co has hired Kenneth A. Wasik as managing director and head of the firm’s dedicated consumer products investment banking team.
Mr. Wasik joins Jefferies & Co. Inc., the principal operating subsidiary of Jefferies Group, Inc. and will be based in the firm’s New York headquarters.
Mr. Wasik was most recently head of consumer products investment banking at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, where he built that firm’s industry effort over the past five years.
In addition to this advisory-oriented experience, he previously provided full-service investment banking capabilities, including equity and debt underwriting, to consumer products companies as a senior banker at UBS and, prior to that firm, Merrill Lynch.