Digital assets investment firm Hilbert Group has appointed Bruce Terry as a Senior Advisor. Terry brings four decades of hedge fund and private equity experience to the team, where he will advise and support the development of investment solutions and fundraising of capital. 

The Managed Funds Association (MFA), the trade association for the global alternative asset management industry, has announced its newly elected and appointed members of its Board of Directors for 2022-2023.  These new board members, who officially begin their term on 1 October, include top executives from leading alternative asset managers and service provider organizations.    Natalie Birrell, President, Anchorage Capital Group, LLC, currently serves as Chair of the MFA Board of Directors, and Jim Rowen, COO, Renaissance Technologies, serves as Vice-Chair. MFA’s more than 150 member firms collectively manage nearly $2.6 trillion across a diverse group of investment strategies, including

Sound Point Capital Management (Sound Point), a credit-focused investment manager with more than $32 billion in assets, has hired Merrill Martin as its new Senior Director of Business Development for their Independent Wealth team. 

United Fintech, a fintech focused on banks, hedge funds, and asset managers, has expanded its sales team with the appointment of Raj Rathor as head of sales for Athena Systems, EMEA. Raj Rathor joins United Fintech from Enfusion, where he was Vice President of Sales.  Rathor’s 10 years of experience in the financial technology sector includes product management roles and pre-sales engineering roles at buy-side vendor SimCorp. Before that he began his career as an OTC execution broker at ICAP covering bonds and swaps. Athena Systems, part of United Fintech, has developed a highly versatile front to back system which is

Komainu, one of Europe’s leading regulated digital asset custodians, has appointed Nicolas Bertrand as its chief executive officer. Bertrand brings over 20 years of experience in market infrastructure and digital assets, including more than a decade at Borsa Italiana and the London Stock Exchange, whilst being an ambassador at the Global Blockchain Business Council and having advised several digital asset businesses. Bertrand has significant experience in scaling and running global teams at leading financial services institutions, most recently as Head of Derivatives and Commodities and member of the Management Committee at the Borsa Italiana (Euronext Group). Komainu has established itself as

Tikehau Capital, a global alternative asset management group, has appointed Sir Peter Westmacott as its UK Chairman. The appointment follows another strong year of activity for Tikehau Capital in the UK, in both capital deployment and in fundraising activities with local institutional investors and wealth managers. Westmacott assumes the role of UK Chairman in addition to his current role as Chairman of the International Advisory Board of Tikehau Capital, which he has held since January 2019. A highly experienced and decorated former British Ambassador, he will work closely with Tikehau Capital’s Head of UK and Iberia Carmen Alonso to accelerate the

Elementum, an alternative investment manager specialising in collateralised natural catastrophe event reinsurance investments, has appointed Douglas Duncan as chief technology officer based in the firm’s HQ in Chicago.

Preqin, a provider of alternative investment data and insight, has appointed Vatsan Sudersan as its Head of Data Management. Vatsan will lead the data management team that operationalises Preqin’s automated data collection, including through machine learning and AI technologies. 

Brian Treister, the former head of infrastructure for WorldQuant at Millennium has returned to the hedge fund just 14 months after quitting to join Meta, according to a report by efinancialCareers.