Fintech specialist Broadridge Financial Solutions, has appointed Wout Kalis as Head of Asia Pacific for Broadridge Asset Management Solutions. As well as driving growth and product expansion, Kalis will oversee day-to-day operations and provide senior asset management leadership in the region. Kalis has extensive regional leadership experience in the fintech and fund administration spaces in APAC. Most recently, he served as Regional Head of Alternative Investment Services for BNY Mellon with responsibility for building out the company’s footprint in Asia. He has also served in leadership positions at SS&C, Citibank, HSBC, and Citco.    Broadridge’s modular suite of asset management

Crescent Capital Group, an alternative credit investment firm, has appointed Jonathan Harari as global head of the firm’s Investor Solutions Group. Based in New York, Harari is responsible for developing and executing Crescent’s strategic sales and marketing plan for clients and assets. This includes identifying potential new investors, developing and maintaining client relationships, designing new investment solutions and managing Crescent’s investor relations and client solutions team. Harari brings more than 15 years of investment experience to Crescent Capital. He most recently served as executive vice president at PIMCO based in New York City, where he led business development across large corporate

John Cryan, who has served as a director of Man Group since January 2015 and as chair of the board since January 2020, is to step down towards the end of this year, with Anne Wade, who has served on the board as a non-executive director since April 2020, to succeed him as chair. On assuming her new role, Wade will step down from her position as chair of the Remuneration Committee but will remain a committee member, and will also assume the role of chair of the Nomination Committee. Man Group says it intends to announce the appointment of

The Standards Board for Alternative Investments has appointed Derek Drummond, fund alpha manager at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, as the new chair of the SBAI North American Committee. 

Point72 Asset Management, the hedge fund founded by Steve Cohen, has expanded its crypto team with the appointment of Lionel Sukhram as a digital assets senior professional, according to a report by Financial News. Sukhram joins Point72 from Robinhood where he spent nearly a year as a crypto operations senior specialist. Prior to Robinhood, he worked in banking, including as a director in Morgan Stanley’s office of business management unit, and a six-year spell at Goldman Sachs. Point72, which manages over $27bn in assets and made it’s first crypto bet in August 2021, has been ramping up its digital assets

Hassan Bassiri, the vice president of portfolio management at crypto hedge fund Arca, has left the firm, according to a report by CoinDesk. Bassiri’s LinkedIn profile says he ended his four year and four month tenure with the company this month and is now portfolio manager at Nima Capital, a single-family office founded by Suna Said.

Global investment firm Cambridge Associates has expanded its executive leadership team with the appointments of chief data officer Harinder Soin and head of corporate strategy Adam Lester. Soin reports to Jason Roberts, chief technology officer and Lester reports to the firm’s chief executive officer, David Druley. As chief data officer, Soin is focused on implementing and overseeing the firm’s data strategy, governance, and execution. He joined Cambridge Associates in 2016, bringing with him more than 20 years of experience in leading enterprise data architecture and designing IT applications and client reporting solutions in the investment management industry. He became the firm’s first chief

Millennium Management has appointed Robert Wininger as global head of HR product management and reporting in its New York office, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.