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Sterling Trading Tech (STT), a leader in technology solutions for the equity, equity options, futures and digital asset trading, has appointed Erik Schmidt as Chief Operating Officer (COO).
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PIMCO has appointed Kimberley Stafford, Managing Director, as Global Head of the the firm’s Product Strategy Group, overseeing traditional strategies and Alternatives, which include PIMCO’s private strategies and hedge funds.
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Praesidium Investment Management Company (Praesidium) has appointed Daniel McHale as Director of Client Service and Business Development.
McHale joins Praesidium from Morgan Stanley where he served as Executive Director, Head of Business Development, leading a hedge fund solutions platform with over USD22 billion in assets under management and spearheading client engagement for one of the world’s fastest growing large, global asset managers. Prior to Morgan Stanley, McHale held senior roles at RSP Investments, Lyster Watson & Co LLC, FBR Capital Markets, and Sanford C Bernstein & Co LLC.
With over 20 years of alternative investments and business development experience, McHale
Substantive Research, a research discovery and research spend analytics provider for the buy-side, has appointed Michael Malpiede as Senior Sales Associate Americas, and Alex Mackinnon as Sales Associate in Europe, to lead the company’s US expansion.
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US Bank has hired David Kubilus in the newly created role of chief commercial officer for Global Fund Services.
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big xyt, an independent provider of smart data and analytics solutions to the global trading and investment community, has added Philip Barnes to the firm’s executive team as Managing Director, Head of Business Development in Asia Pacific.
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Macrobond Financial (Macrobond), a provider of economic and financial data, has appointed Howard Rees as Chief Commercial Officer, effective immediately.
Rees will oversee all global sales, customer activities; and strategic partnerships from the company’s London office.
Data and analytics are needed more than ever to interpret global macroeconomic trends and market developments. At the same time, the information economists, strategists, and analysts must access and analyse is growing exponentially. Simpler ways are therefore needed to quickly extract information from millions of data points to uncover the real economic story.
Macrobond is the world’s most comprehensive source of economic intelligence for
Cowen Inc has appointed Adam Strout as a Director in the Company’s Outsourced Trading division.
Strout brings decades of experience in trading global equities for institutional clients at large brokerages as well as directly for portfolio managers at well-known investment management firms. A long-time resident of Massachusetts, Strout will be based in Cowen’s Boston office and work with the firms’ global team of 38 traders, across the US, Europe and Asia, to bring our differentiated Outsourced Trading solution to clients in his local market. Strout will report to Bobby Croswell, Head of US Equity Outsourced Trading.
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Quantumrock, an AI-driven investment manager based in Munich, has appointed Thomas Kemming as its Head of Institutional Client Relations.
Kemming has over 26 years of experience working in the asset management industry. He has held various positions ranging from securities specialist, to derivatives trader, and more recently as a portfolio manager and chief investment officer.
Kemming spent eleven years at Merck Finck working in senior leadership positions as their chief investment officer and later, head of professional clients. Before joining Merk Finck, Kemming spent seven years in derivatives sales and trading at HypoVereinsbank, and in the last three years set-up
Boutique law firm Kleinberg Kaplan has appointed David Pentlow as Senior Counsel in the firm’s Private Funds & Investment Management Practice.
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