Fulcrum Asset Management has added Emma Pickering, Juan Antolin-Diaz and Philip Strother to the Partnership, bringing the total number of partners to 15. Pickering heads Fulcrum’s Investor Relations Team and has greatly enhanced the firm’s relationships with its clients. Joining in April 2004, she was a day-one member of Fulcrum, having previously worked alongside other founding members at Goldman Sachs. She is a CFA Charterholder.   Head of Research, Antolin-Diaz joined Fulcrum 10 years ago from the European Central Bank, and prior to that the Foundation for Applied Economic Research. He has built up a widely respected team of researchers

Willkie Farr & Gallagher has appointed Gabriel Acri as a partner in the Firm’s Asset Management Department in New York. Acri previously served for ten years as Managing Director, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of hedge fund adviser Sovarnum Capital LP. Earlier in his career, he was an associate in Willkie’s Asset Management Department.    Acri has extensive experience in the formation, maintenance and regulation of various domestic and offshore hedge funds and other private funds, including commodity pools. He has advised registered and unregistered investment advisers, commodity trading advisors and other market participants across the US, Europe and

The Hedge Fund Association (HFA), an international nonprofit trade and nonpartisan lobbying organisation, has announced the results of its 2022 Global Board of Directors election. HFA members re-elected Rajpal Arulpragasam, and elected Jagruti Bhikha, Deloris Dunk Vickers, Thejas Nalval and Richard Westmark. HFA Global Board members are all industry executives that serve for up to two consecutive three-year terms. Global Board Election Winners: Rajpal Arulpragasam, Global Board Member, Partnership Committee Co-Chair Jagruti Bhikha, Global Board Member, West Coast Regional Director Deloris Dunk Vickers, Global Board Member, Officer and Treasurer Thejas Nalval, Global Board Member Richard Westmark, Global Board Member, Texas

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) Board of Directors has appointed Francis (Frank) La Salla, currently Chief Executive Officer of BNY Mellon’s Issuer Services business and a member of the BNY Mellon Executive Committee, as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company, effective 12 August. La Salla’s appointment as CEO reflects the Board’s long-term succession planning and rigorous search process with the scheduled retirement of Michael C Bodson, who has served as DTCC’s CEO since July 2012.   La Salla will also serve as President and CEO of DTCC’s principal operating subsidiaries, The Depository Trust Company (DTC),

Trading Technologies International (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, has appointed industry veteran Nick Garrow to the the new position of EVP Multi-Asset & Buy Side. Garrow has more than 20 years of senior management experience in capital markets and prime brokerage, leading significant global technological and operational transformation of businesses ranging from a tier-1 bank, to brokerage and clearing firms, to an exchange and fintech company. Garrow reports to TT CEO Keith Todd and joins the firm’s leadership team. Serving since 2019 as Global Head of IT and Operations for Societe Generale

The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) has promoted Gaone Dube from Chief Analyst to Deputy Head Investments Supervision Division, effective 1 January 2022. Dube is a Fellow Chartered Accountant, holding the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants designation. Additionally, she is a member of several organisations including the Cayman Islands Institute of Professional Accountants and 100 Women in Finance. Dube has over 19 years of experience in the Cayman Islands’ financial services industry. Prior to joining CIMA in 2018, she held a position at an audit firm before becoming the Deputy Head of the Fund Division at a leading fund administrator.

Piper Sandler Companies has made several key hired for its fixed income platform including the appointment of Andrew Deming as a managing director in the firm’s Minneapolis office. Deming joins the team with nearly 20 years of public finance, financial structuring and real estate experience. Prior to joining the specialty finance team at Piper Sandler, Deming worked as a managing director at Jones Lang LaSalle in the firm’s capital markets group.  Deming’s hire comes on the heels of recent hires Michael Milewski and Frank Hammond. Milewski joined the firm as a vice president focusing on quantitative sales within the specialty

LiquidityBook, a provider of cloud-native buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has appointed Bryon Cole as Director of Buy-Side Sales. He will be based in the firm’s New York office and report directly to Head of Global Buy-Side Sales James Baxter.    Cole will be responsible for driving the continued expansion of LiquidityBook’s buy-side client base as the firm pursues its global growth strategy. He will also play an instrumental role in expanding the functionality of LBX Buy-Side, LiquidityBook’s cloud-based POEMS (portfolio, order and execution management system).

Kirchliche Zusatzversorgungskasse des Verbandes der Diözesen Deutschlands (KZVK), the occupation pension scheme provider for Catholic Church and charitable sector employees in Germany, is looking to appoint a portfolio manager to focus on alternative investments, according to a report by IPE. The new portfolio manager will have responsibility for investments in private equity, infrastructure equity and private debt, plus due diligence of new funds.

Two more managing directors are leaving Blackstone’s hedge fund solutions group according to a report by Bloomberg. The report cites unnamed sources for the news that New York-based Tej Arora and Katherine Chan, both MDs in Blacstone Alternative Management’s special situations investing group, have resigned. Arora previously held roles at Roystone Capital Management, ADK Capital, One East Partners and Luxor Capital Group, while Chan previously held positions at Millennium Management and Anandar Capital Management.