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Dr Egbert Laege is to leave the European Energy Exchange AG (EEX) for personal reasons by the end of his current term of office on 31 December 2019.
As of 30 June 2019, Laege will step down and resign from his position as President of Powernext, based in Paris. He will oversee EEX Asia as CEO until the end of the year and afterwards seek new challenges outside EEX Group.
As of 1 July 2019, Dr. Tobias Paulun, Chief Strategy Officer of EEX, will additionally assume the function as president of Powernext.
Thomas Book, Chairman of the EEX Supervisory Board, says:
Laven Group, a provider of regulatory compliance solutions and risk and due diligence services, has appointed Brad Stephenson as Chief Operating Officer (COO).
Stephenson’s has extensive experience in the funds world, most recently as Head of Funds at Estera, and previously at Trident Trust.
At Estera, Brad oversaw the firm’s Cayman fund offering. This included fund directorships and related fiduciary services to Cayman corporate structures. Prior to this he accumulated over 10 years’ experience in the Cayman funds industry as a business development manager and has significant skills in the day-to-day management of funds in markets including the UK, US,
Outsourced trading firm Dalzell Trading has added John Stefanelli to its Equity Trading Desk based in the company’s Philadelphia office.
“We are pleased to have John on our team. Our clients will benefit greatly from John’s extensive buy-side trading experience and breadth of knowledge,” says CEO and Founder Dave Dalzell. “John’s hiring fits our business strategy of building a team comprised of the most qualified and experienced traders as we continue to grow our business.”
Stefanelli was a former Director of Trading at Blackrock where he spent 17 years trading US and Global Equities. His experience includes trading small, mid
BTON Financial, an independent outsourced dealing desk for asset managers, has appointed two Non-Executive Directors. Electronic trading experts Brian Schwieger, current Global Head of Equities at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Tony Walker, former Managing Director of EMEA Execution Services at Merrill Lynch, have joined BTON Financial in an advisory capacity.
Schwieger and Walker will help shape the direction of the company and focus on delivering on BTON Financial’s mission to support mid-tier asset managers in taking advantage of the emerging liquidity and execution opportunities while also ensuring regulatory compliance.
By using BTON Financial’s outsourced dealing desk, smaller asset
Chainalysis, a blockchain analysis company, has appointed Michael Mosier as Chief Technical Counsel.
Mosier joins Chainalysis after serving for over a decade in various government positions, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the White House National Security Council, and most recently, the US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Alongside former US Department of Treasury and Refinitiv executives based in Washington, DC at Chainalysis, Mosier will be responsible for bringing legal expertise to Chainalysis products, including data privacy and global anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions, policy, and government matters.
Mosier served as Chief of Strategic
Roberto Vernazza and his Mercurio Quantitative Program have joined Typhon Capital Management. Vernazza is Typhon’s first dedicated Quant portfolio manager under the team of François Moreau, Head of Quantitative Trading, and Cris Doloc, PhD, Chief Technology Officer.
The July launch of Mercurio is a strategic addition to Typhon’s decade-old modular multi-strategy platform. Vernazza’s methodology has a four-year track-record and will bring Typhon’s assets under management to over USD100 million.
James Koutoulas, Founder and Chief Executive, says: “We’re incredibly excited to welcome Roberto aboard whilst expanding into the UK. Roberto’s experience in mid-frequency systematic trading is a robust complement to our
INTL FCStone is to open a captive IT development company with offices in Bangalore, India. INTL FCStone Technology Services Private Limited will begin operational activities on 1 July, 2019.
The new venture arises out of a previous relationship with DigitalDot Consultancy India Pvt Ltd in which DigitalDot performed development services exclusively for INTL. After working together for close to two years and building a predominately Bangalore-based team of developers to a point of critical mass, INTL executed on its longer-term strategy to internalise its software development by offering to employ all of DigitalDot’s developers. The newly organised INTL FCStone Technology
Drooms, a provider of secure cloud solutions in Europe, is expanding its expertise in the fields of machine learning and natural language processing with the appointment of Johannes Leveling as machine learning team lead. Leveling will report to Peter Made, Head of Development at Drooms.
Leveling has over two decades of professional experience in the fields of machine learning, machine translation, natural language processing and information retrieval in industry and research. In his previous role as Vice President Data Science and Machine Learning at Teckro, a software company that utilises machine learning to digitise clinical studies, he headed up a
Robeco has appointed Mark den Hollander as Chief Financial & Risk Officer (CFRO), and a member of Robeco’s Executive Committee and statutory director.
He will be responsible for Business Control & Finance, the Financial and Operational Risk Management teams, Fiscal Affairs, Legal Affairs, Compliance and the Investment Restrictions team.
Den Hollander has over 25 years of experience in the asset management industry: he held several positions at NN Investment Partners (formerly known as ING Investment Management) (2009-2018) and ABN AMRO Asset Management (1993-2009). His most recent position at NN Investment Partners was CFRO. Before that, he served as CRO
PineBridge Investments (PineBridge), a private global asset manager, has appointed Henrique Francisco as Chief Technology Officer.
In this role, he will lead the firm’s global team of IT professionals, and work closely with firm leaders to define and drive the firm’s IT strategy. He is based in New York and reports to PineBridge COO Michael J Karpik.
Francisco has over 20 years of experience in leading large global technology functions across a range of financial services, including investment management and fund services. He was most recently Head of Distribution and Client Technology at OppenheimerFunds Inc in New York, where
