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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
Independent fund servicing provider Ultimus Fund Solutions (Ultimus) has appointed Nickolaus Darsch as Senior Vice President of Business Development.
In this role, Darsch will be responsible for building and strengthening strategic relationships with investment managers that can benefit from the Ultimus offering.
Darsch will focus on aligning the Ultimus suite of services to meet the needs of registered fund sponsors, primarily in the range of USD5 billion and USD50 billion in assets under management. In addition, he will help Ultimus further cultivate its relationships with the community of consultants, audit and legal firms, and other centers of influence that work
Visible Alpha, an investment research technology company, which helps investment managers discover ideas and track and value research for MiFID II compliance, has appointed Samantha Miller as Chief Product Officer.
Miller joins Visible Alpha from Dun & Bradstreet where she was Vice President of Global Product Portfolio Strategy and Management.
In that role, she drove strategy for over 200 products spanning financial, compliance, sales and marketing verticals in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Miller brings with her deep knowledge in software-as-a-service, data and analytics, APIs and a certification in artificial intelligence from MIT Sloan School of Management. She
Blackstone has appointed Limin Wang as a Managing Director on the Quantitative Research team in Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM).
Limin joins from Laurion Capital Management, where he spent four years as a Portfolio Manager. Prior to that, he spent over ten years with Credit Suisse as a director on their proprietary trading desk. He also has held roles at Lehman Brothers and at Columbia University, where he served as a research scientist in theoretical physics. He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Pennsylvania, an MPhil/MA in Physics from Columbia University, and a BA in Physics
Global law firm Goodwin has appointed Lauren King as a partner in the firm’s Private Investment Funds practice in New York.
King focuses on the organisation and operation of private investment funds. She represents a wide variety of funds with extensive cross-border components, including secondary, buyout, real estate, special-opportunity, hybrid, credit and venture capital funds. King also advises private asset managers on the full spectrum of corporate matters, including governance, upper-tier structuring, succession planning, marketing and limited-partner transfers. Additionally, she represents secondary investors in connection with general partner-led restructurings and other secondary transactions. King has significant private equity and joint
