People
Alternative investment marketplace iCapital Network has added of four senior leaders to is executive team: Michael Kushner, Chief Financial Officer; Jennifer Ashley, Chief People Officer; Diane Frankenfield, Chief Marketing Officer; and Stephen Jacobs, General Counsel.
iCapital, which offers advisors and their clients’ access to a curated menu of private equity and hedge funds. has experienced substantial growth in the last 12 months as it has significantly increased the number of advisors on its network, and expanded the scope of wealth management firms and general partners that leverage its technology to drive their growth. Alongside organic expansion, iCapital acquired the alternative investment
GAMCO Investors has named Dennis J DeCore as a Managing Director to lead Gabelli Funds’ ETF business.
Gabelli Funds is a licensee of the Precidian Investments ActiveShares, a non-transparent, actively managed ETF which was recently approved by the SEC. Gabelli Funds expects that ActiveShares will be a significant offering to investors in the future.
DeCore has over 44 years of brokerage and asset management experience. Prior to joining Gabelli Funds in 2014, he was a Managing Director at Mitsubishi Securities where he executed share repurchases for large banking clients as well as implemented equity strategies for the firm’s proprietary account.
European global insights platform, Atheneum, has appointed David Adams as Chief Technology Office (CTO).
Bringing over 30 years of experience, Adams will support Atheneum’s technology-enabled Research-as-a-Service (RaaS) model to provide faster insights and better data to its clients.
Based in the company’s London office, Adams will play a key role in developing Atheneum’s Global Insights Platform, utilising machine learning that will underpin the system to support the organisation’s plan to grow in excess of 50 per cent year-on-year to 2025.
Atheneum provides a gateway to reliable industry knowledge, sought after by renowned investment firms, leading global corporations and well-known professional
Fintech specialist Avaloq has appointed Imad Abou Haidar as the firm’s new Head of Asia. Haidar joins from London-headquartered software firm Finastra, where he was Managing Director for the Asia-Pacific region based in Singapore.
Haidar who will take up his new role in October, had worked at Finastra since 2016 as Managing Director for the Asia-Pacific region. At Finastra, he led the transformation of the firm’s regional strategy and portfolio growth initiatives in both established and emerging markets. Imad is known for building long-term, value-adding relationships with clients and industry partners, and is a passionate client advocate. His previous roles
Eze Castle Integration (ECI), a global managed service provider to the financial sector, has expanded its London team with the addition of Jamie Smith as Director of International Technology and Lee Robertson as Commercial Director.
Smith and Robertson bring a wealth of experience and expertise to ECI. Smith has over 15 years of IT experience specific to the hedge fund and alternative investment sector. Robertson brings over 20 years of knowledge in technology, including connectivity, communications and regulatory compliance surrounding these products.
“Eze Castle Integration is at an exciting time in its growth as we expand our cloud and cyber
The Maples Group has relocated its law firm, Maples and Calder (Jersey) LLP and its fiduciary and corporate services teams, Maples Fiduciary Services (Jersey) Limited, to a new office location at Sir Walter Raleigh House in St Helier.
The new five storey offices at Sir Walter Raleigh are bright and modern and occupy a prominent landmark position at the western end of the Esplanade, the prime office address in St Helier, overlooking the Esplanade and waterfront beyond. Jersey International Finance Centre is located a short walk away and neighbouring offices include a wide range of financial and professional services firms.
The Maples Group’s law firm, Maples and Calder, has appointed Heidi de Vries as the Managing Partner of its London office. De Vries (pictured) will take office on 1 December 2019, succeeding Paul Govier who is retiring from the firm.
Govier joined the firm 17 years ago and will continue to support the London office in a consultancy capacity until November 2020.
With immediate effect, de Vries will assume the position of Joint Managing Partner, working alongside Govier and will take on the role of sole Managing Partner from 1 December 2019.
De Vries has extensive investment funds’ expertise
Alternative asset manager Gresham House has appointed Geoff Lambert as Head of Compliance, effective 19 August 2019. Based out of the firm’s London office, Lambert will report to Samee Khan, General Counsel and Company Secretary of Gresham House.
Lambert joins Gresham House from Nikko Asset Management Europe (NAME), where he was responsible for leading the compliance team to ensure NAME met all its regulatory responsibilities, implementing MAR regulation and conducting ongoing project work for MiFID II, including project implementation. Lambert has more than a decade of industry experience, having previously held compliance roles at Henderson Global Investors and Royal London Asset
Gramercy Funds Management has appointed Jeffrey D Sharon, CFP, CIMA as Global Head of Business Development. Sharon will be responsible for the firm’s marketing, distribution and investor relations efforts and will also serve as a member of Gramercy’s Management Team.
Sharon brings 25 years of expertise in the asset management industry, as a business development professional and successful leader of institutional sales and client service teams. Prior to joining Gramercy, Sharon spent nine years at OFI Global Asset Management, an OppenheimerFunds Company. He was most recently the Head of North America Institutional, where he was instrumental in the firm’s growth through
BTIG has appointed Joe Passaro as a Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets. Passaro brings over a decade of key experience to BTIG’s growing capital markets businesses. He will be based out of the firm’s New York office and report into Matt Clark, who leads BTIG Investment Banking.
“We are pleased to welcome Joe to BTIG’s leadership team,” says Scott Kovalik, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BTIG. “His extensive knowledge of the financial sponsor universe, deep relationships with institutional investors and ability to assist clients executing complex trades and transactions will be extremely valuable as we continue to
