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Legal firm Sidley Austin has hired Nathan Greene and Jay Baris as partners in its Investment Funds group in New York. Greene and Baris joined Sidley from Shearman & Sterling, where they were both partners in the Investment Funds practice.
“Sidley has a longstanding track record representing registered investment companies and their constituents in fund formation, board representation and related operational and regulatory matters,” says William D Kerr, global leader of Sidley’s Investment Funds practice and member of the firm’s executive committee. “Our registered fund practice is an important component of our broad private funds practice, which distinguishes our practice
BTON Financial, an independent outsourced dealing desk for asset managers, has appointed two senior executives to its management team. Charles Phan, an experienced hedge fund CTO, quant strategist and trader joins BTON Financial as Chief Technology Officer to drive the firm’s technology strategy and delivery. Caroline Holmes, a regulatory expert and change management specialist with extensive asset management experience, joins as Head of Business Development to act as a conduit between clients, technology and sales teams to enable swift and informative onboarding for asset managers.
Holmes and Phan join BTON Financial to support the firm’s growth ambitions, drive the adoption of
Alternative investment firm Angelo Gordon & Co has appointed Putri Pascualy as a managing director and credit product specialist in the firm’s Investor Realtions team.
Toscafund Asset Management, Martin Hughes’ long-running equity-focused hedge fund, has appointed Aberdeen Asset Management co-founder Martin Gilbert (pictured) as chairman.
Veteran money manager Gilbert, who co-founded Aberdeen in 1983, is currently chairman of Aberdeen Standard Investments, and vice-chairman of Standard Life Aberdeen. He recently announced his intention to step down from his directorship at Standard Life Aberdeen.
He takes up the new position of Toscafund chairman with immediate effect, and will also join the board of Old Oak Holdings, Toscafund’s parent company.
Hughes, a well-known and high-profile figure within the hedge fund industry, launched Toscafund in 2000, having earlier worked
Data Operating Platform Behavox has named its first board of directors, which will be chaired by Founder and CEO Erkin Adylov.
SANNE, a global provider of alternative asset and corporate business services, has made three senior appointments – Jason Bingham as Chief Strategy Officer, Daryn Kerr as Global Head of Technology Change, and Marta Ciemiega as business development director in New York. Bingham, who already serves on the Group’s Executive Committee, previously held the post of Managing Director of Product Development. He has been with SANNE since 2012 when he joined as Head of Real Assets focusing on strategy, business development and product operations.
With more than 20 years’ industry experience and his extensive network across the globe, Jason is perfectly
BrightSphere Investment Group has promoted chief financial officer Suren Rana to chief executive officer and president, with Rana taking over the roles from the outgoing Guang Yang.The appointment is effective immediately, and Rana will also join the board of directors.
In addition, the Board has elected John Paulson to succeed Yang as chairman.
Paulson says: “Suren Rana will be leading the Company as CEO going forward. As we look to grow our assets, we have found that tailored efforts led by our affiliates directly, rather than centralised efforts, have been the most productive. Therefore, going forward, the company will focus
Alan Davies, former Director of SS&C Depositary Services Limited, has joined INDOS Financial, an independent fund depositary and oversight business, as Managing Director.
LeverData, a financial technology company that provides data ingestion, validation, and ongoing management solutions for corporations and financial services firms, has appointed long-time hedge fund executive Mike DeAddio, formerly of WorldQuant, Citadel and MIT, as well as former Managing Director for GIC, Siew Kai Choy, to the firm’s Advisory Board.Messrs DeAddio and Choy join LeverData amid accelerating client demand for the firm’s services, which solve long-standing industry shortfalls around proper data ingestion, validation, and managed services.
“Mike and Siew Kai’s collective expertise will be invaluable as we grow our customer base and global footprint,” says Anmol Bhandari, CEO of LeverData.
SANNE, a provider of alternative asset and corporate business services, has promoted Stephanie Hopkins from Head of Private Debt & Capital Markets to the role of Country Head for Jersey.
