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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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Creighton AI, a west coast quant equity fund manager which launched its computer-driven global long/short strategy earlier this year, has named Ryan Willson as chief executive officer.
Willson (pictured) was previously head of North America at the San Francisco- and London-based quantitative investment firm, which specialises in systematic global equity long/short and long-only strategies using proprietary machine-learning algorithms.
Before Creighton AI, Willson – who has some 25 years’ experience building boutique investment firms – was CEO of Lateef Investment Management, whose assets grew from USD300 million to USD6 billion. Earlier in his career, he held roles at Merrill Lynch and
Blank Rome has appointed Anthony (Tony) R Callobre as a partner in the Finance, Restructuring, and Bankruptcy practice group and Financial Services industry group in the firm’s Los Angeles office.
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Trium Ireland, a full scope AIFM and UCITS Management Company (ManCo), has hired risk specialist Shauna Brady, as it seeks to capitalise on the increasing demand for the structuring of UCITS and AIF solutions.
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Utopia Genesis Foundation, an organisation formed to support the development of an open platform for the music industry, has appointed Rick Heffernan as Head of Business Development.
Heffernan, with over 18 years of music industry experience, will join a diverse and passionate group of talented professionals working towards achieving transparency and creativity in a new framework.
“Our strategy will be aimed at cultivating awareness and onboarding new artists to gain widespread adoption. We’re on the frontier of what is effectively still a new category for the music industry and what will be an important tool moving forward,” says Heffernan, Head
