Global fund administration firm Maitland has appointed JP Khaitan as Head of Technology Services – Fund Services. Khaitan arrives with two decades’ experience working with multinationals across the wealth management, life insurance, fund, and banking sectors. He reports to Managing Director of Maitland Global Fund Services, Jon Hugill.   Khaitan will work with Maitland’s management team to define Fund Services’ information technology and information system strategy, overseeing its deployment and maintenance. He will also look to ensure Maitland realises maximum value from its technology investments, both to grow the business and further enhance client service.

RWC Partners, an investment group specialising in long-term developed and emerging market equities strategies, convertible bonds and income solutions, has appointed Sunita Patel, former Marketing Director for M&G Investments, as Head of Marketing. Patel joins at a time of significant growth for RWC Partners, including expanding its OEIC range beyond the existing TM RWC UK Equity Income Fund and TM RWC Global Equity Income Fund, with the recent launch of an emerging market OEIC managed by John Malloy.   In her new role with RWC Partners, Patel will lead the marketing function working closely with the senior leadership team. This

The European asset management platform of Mediolanum Banking Group, Mediolanum International Funds Ltd (MIFL), has appointed Jeremy Humphries as Head of Quantitative Investments.  Humphries, who will be based in Dublin and report to Brian O’Reilly, the firm’s Head of Market Strategy, will be responsible for building and managing new quantitative strategies, while also ensuring the firm’s quantitative research and analysis is integrated into MIFL’s entire product range and wider investment philosophy. This is a newly created role as MIFL seeks to expand its internal investment management equity capabilities and will look to add additional resources to the Quantitative team over

Drawbridge, a provider of cybersecurity software and solutions to the alternative investment industry, has appointed Edna M Conway to its Board of Directors.  Conway brings decades of experience and leadership delivering trust, transparency, compliance, risk management, sustainability and supply chain transformation to organisations. She currently serves as Security & Risk Officer for Microsoft Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure, where she is responsible for the security, resiliency and governance of the cloud infrastructure upon which Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud business operates. 

Blackstone has appointed David Ben-Ur and Atish Nigam to  senior leadership roles in the Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM) business.  Ben-Ur will be the Chief Investment Officer of BAAM’s hedge fund solutions business (BPS) and Atish will serve as the Chief Investment Officer of BAAM’s special situations investing business (BSOF). In conjunction with Ben-Ur’s hire, BAAM ahas also greed on preliminary terms to manage the assets of CAM Capital, Bruce Kovner’s family office.

Mercury Capital Advisors has appointed Masashi Hirose as Partner and Eugene Park as Principal to boost distribution and project management efforts for the firm, respectively.  Hirose, who joins Mercury from Teneo Partners, is based in Tokyo, while Park, who has spent the last nine years at First Avenue Partners, ark has joined Mercury’s New York office. Hirose’s experience covers real estate, infrastructure, private equity, direct loans, hedge funds and venture capital, while Park has completed significant capital raises across a variety of fund types and direct deals in key asset classes including infrastructure, private credit, and private equity.

Liquidnet has enhanced its continental European coverage by deploying specialists in equities and fixed income in Paris, Madrid, Frankfurt and Copenhagen to offer a range of execution services including client coverage, sales trading and trading. The strategic move taps into the existing geographic infrastructure and expertise within the pan-European TP ICAP Group allowing Liquidnet to deploy coverage teams locally to serve the buy side Member community.

Exegy Incorporated, a provider of market data and trading infrastructure to the financial services industry, and a portfolio company of Marlin Equity Partners, has added two experienced industry professionals to its global sales organisation. Devry Ross joins Exegy as Global Head of Partners, while Jared Singer has joined the firm as Head of Sales – Americas. Both Ross and Singer will report to Craig Schachter, Chief Revenue Officer for Exegy.  

RBC Global Asset Management’s specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), is added to its client relationship team in Munich, Germany, with the appointment of Matthias Hartmann as Director, Business Development for Germany and Austria, reporting into Viola Patock, Head of Northern Europe. The appointment of Matthias follows Michael Wolfram who joined in June as Head of Institutional Sales Germany and Austria, and reinforces BlueBay’s commitment to strengthening its presence in the Northern Europe region.

Maples and Calder, the Maples Group’s law firm, has relocated one of its experienced Funds & Investment Management Partners – Dan Beckett – from its Cayman Islands office to London.  Beckett, who has been with the firm for over 14 years and advises on the formation of both open-ended and private equity funds as well as on-going legal and regulatory compliance and general maintenance of all kinds of alternative investment funds, will work closely with Harjit Kaur who leads the London Funds & Investment Management practice. He will also collaborate with the firm’s other London practice groups which include Corporate,