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Arcesium, a global financial technology and professional services firm delivering solutions to hedge funds, banks, and institutional asset managers, has opened an office in London.The firm also announced that Chris Barrow has been appointed as the Head of Business Development for Europe, to be based in the new London office.
Chris has more than 20 years of experience in law, banking, and financial technology. He started his career as a lawyer, specialising in banking and capital markets, and then moved into business development roles focusing on hedge funds and asset managers. Chris has led the global sales teams for
Enfusion, a provider of cloud-based investment management software, has appointed Lorelei Skillman as Chief Marketing Officer. With over 20 years of transformative marketing experience in the financial services sector, Skillman will lead Enfusion’s global marketing and communications initiatives, working alongside the organisation’s executive leadership team to expand and evolve its brand, footprint, and bottom-line impact.
Skillman’s appointment is part of the ongoing expansion of Enfusion’s executive leadership team with other recent new hires including Thomas Kim joining as CEO in March and Julie Nagle, Steven Bachert and Steve Dorton joining as Chief People Officer, Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Financial
Brevan Howard, a high-profile global macro hedge fund manager founded by Alan Howard, has strengthened its global business development team with a quartet of appointments in the US, Europe and Asia, with hires from well-known hedge fund firms including Exodus Point Capital Management and Bluecrest.
Natalie Smith has joined in New York as head of strategy, with an investor-focused mandate within directional and relative value macro investing. Smith joins from Commonwealth Asset Management.
Peter Hornick, who was previously at Exodus Point Capital Management and Millennium Management, has been named head of business development for Brevan Howard Alpha Strategies (US) in
Alternative asset manager Trium Capital has hired experienced hedge fund manager Tej Johar. Johar, who joins Trium after extensive experience running successful event-driven strategies for a range of top tier hedge funds, will be responsible for developing and overseeing Trium’s event-driven equity strategies, as the firm continues to broaden its range of uncorrelated solutions.
Johar joins from Man GLG, where he ran a European long/short event-driven equity portfolio. Before joining Man GLG, he was CIO of Broad Bridge Capital, where he also ran an event-driven equity alternative strategy. Prior to this role, he spent almost three years at BlueCrest Capital Management.
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has appointed Rob Friend as Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately.Friend’s 24 years of international financial services experience will be instrumental in scaling SteelEye’s business operations as it prepares to support increasing global demand for holistic, data-centric compliance solutions.
Since its launch in October 2017, SteelEye has gained more than seventy clients and now has a team of fifty serving clientele across seven countries. As the company plans for expansion into North America and Asia Pacific, and a Series-B fundraise to support further growth, Friend joins to scale SteelEye’s operations – optimising internal
PineBridge Investments (PineBridge), a global asset manager focused on active, high conviction investing, has appointed Brian McCarthy as Chief Risk Officer, Europe.McCarthy joins PineBridge Investments Ireland and will oversee all aspects of risk management in Europe. In his role McCarthy will ensure the effective operation of PineBridge’s risk management infrastructure, covering PineBridge Funds (UCITS and AIFs, across fixed income, equities, multi-asset and private market/alternatives), as well as oversight of the firm’s operational risk management.
McCarthy is based in PineBridge’s Dublin office, and will report to Tracie Ahern, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Risk Officer. He will also assume the
Apex Group (Apex) has appointed Julie Ferguson as Co-Head of Throgmorton Compliance Solutions, working alongside previously announced Co-Head Mel Scotland.Ferguson brings an extensive record of accomplishment and experience across all non-investment areas. In addition to her background in the traditional asset management space, including extensive experience managing operational risk within a quantitative investment manager, Ferguson has an excellent understanding of digital assets and the emerging cryptocurrency industry. She has held senior operational and financial roles at firms including commodities trading house VCMT and FCA regulated investment advisory company Ashenden Capital Management. Ferguson began her career in prime brokerage at Morgan
PwC has appointed David Selden as partner to lead its Alternative Investment Funds (AIF) team’s new legal business. Selden has joined PwC following 15 years, ten as partner, at US law firm Fried Frank. He brings experience of working on a variety of investment management and securities law matters across jurisdictions and asset classes, with emphasis on private investment vehicles, including hedge funds, private equity funds and real estate funds.
At PwC, Selden will provide the experience and credentials to support the firm in creating a new integrated tax, legal and regulatory service offering to AIF managers, investors and service
Florence Barjou has been appointed as Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Lyxor Asset Management. Based in Paris, she will report to Lionel Paquin, CEO of Lyxor. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Sudrania Fund Services (Sudrania) has established an office in Singapore making its end-to-end cloud-based fund administration platform available to clients looking to take advantage of the country’s recently enacted Variable Capital Company (VCC) fund structure legislation. Sudrania also has offices in Hong Kong, India, the USA, and the Cayman Islands.
“The combination of VCC legislation, plus our cloud-based fund admin model, helps accelerate fund launches for sophisticated, early-adopting managers,” says Ravindra Tailor, Director of Org Development (APAC) of Sudrania. “Our strategic goal has always been to help managers stay competitive and focus on generating alpha for their investors, so opening this
