Northern Trust has named Kimberly Evans as head of Private Capital Fund Administration in North America, leading a growing practice dedicated to providing middle- and back-office solutions for a range of alternative asset class investment managers, including real estate, private debt, infrastructure and both traditional and hybrid private equity funds in the region. Evans, with 25 years of financial services experience, will focus Northern Trust’s global capabilities on a segment of the alternatives market experiencing rapid asset growth and increased demands for transparency. Northern Trust offers an integrated solution including trade management, reconciliation, risk and analytics, fund accounting, global custody

Thalēs has appointed David Modiano as Managing Director of its Capital Strategies group. In his new role, he will be based out of New York and will report to Edouard Robbes, President of Thalēs Capital Partners. Most recently Modiano (pictured), was a Partner and Head of Business Development at Mill Hill Capital, a New York-based credit hedge fund. Prior to that, he spent ten years combined at Investcorp and Lyxor Asset Management where he was second in command in their hedge fund seeding teams.   “David brings a unique perspective and a track record of success in the industry which will be

MUFG Investor Services, the global asset-servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has appointed Daniel McNamara as Chief Strategy Officer to support and shape MUFG Investor Services’ long-term growth plan. He will be based in London and will report to John Sergides, Chief Executive Officer of MUFG Investor Services.   McNamara (pictured), will have oversight of the six lines of business within MUFG Investor Services, focusing on the use of capital and resources across these business lines, overseeing the delivery of new client solutions, and developing a set of standards and best practices regarding products and services in order to

Lazard Asset Management (LAM) has appointed Jennifer Anderson and Nikita Singhal as Co-Heads of Sustainable Investment and ESG (environmental, social and governance). Anderson and Singhal are based in London and New York, respectively. “Our investment teams have been focused on evaluating ESG characteristics of investments for more than a decade,” says Ashish Bhutani, CEO of LAM. “We are pleased to have Jenny and Nikita on board, working closely with our analysts to continue to advance our long-standing efforts to integrate ESG considerations into our research and portfolio management capabilities across the business.”   Anderson has served as a board director

BTIG Limited has appointed Nigel Fenn as a Managing Director in the firm’s Institutional Equities division.   Based in London office, Fenn will cover institutional equity clients within Europe and the US, specialising in block trading across developed, emerging and frontier markets.   Throughout his 25-year career as a senior equity sales and trading professional, Fenn has effectively covered clients in the US and Europe. Prior to BTIG, he was a Managing Director at UBS in London, where he spent more than 13 years in leadership roles within the Secondary European Equity Block business and was responsible for EMEA Equity

The Hedge Fund Association (HFA), an international non-profit trade and non-partisan lobbying organisation, has appointed a new Treasurer, Deloris Dunk-Vickers, and four new Regional Directors to lead the organisation’s Boston, Hong Kong, Canada and New York Chapters. The new regional directors are: William Herrmann, HFA New York; Scott Campbell, HFA Canada; Alice Lyu, HFA Hong Kong; and Sean McKeown, HFA Boston.   “What makes HFA unique among global trade organisations in our industry is our leadership structure. All of our elected and appointed leaders are volunteers. The new leaders we have announced today are accomplished individuals who have committed to

BroadRiver Asset Management, an investment manager of life settlements and other non-capital-markets assets, has appointed Tony Acquadro has Senior Director of Global Business Development. Acquadro will leverage the firm’s expertise in accessing and structuring non-correlated cash flows from life-contingent assets and longevity risk to launch BroadRiver’s newest offerings in non-capital markets asset classes.   Acquadro has extensive experience in marketing, operations and trading across a variety of asset classes, including algorithmic equity trading, mutual funds, fixed income securities and life-contingent assets. Throughout his career, he has held business development and sales positions with asset managers serving institutional investors and high-net-worth

TransFICC, a specialist provider of low-latency connectivity for Fixed Income and Derivatives Markets, has appointed Godfried De Vidts as Regulatory Affairs Advisor. De Vidts (pictured), is an authority on European financial and political issues, engaging with the European central banks and treasuries, the European Commission and European Parliament. Throughout his career he has been a member of various official working groups such as: the ECB Contact Group on Euro Securities Infrastructures (Cogesi); the ECB Macroprudential Policies and Financial Stability Contact Group (MFCG); and the ESMA Secondary Markets Standing Committee Consultative Working Group.   Since starting his career in Financial Markets

Dash Financial Technologies, a capital markets technology and execution provider, has appointed Scott Patrick as Chief Financial Officer. Reporting directly to CEO Peter Maragos, Patrick will be responsible for leading financial operations and strategic planning for the firm. Patrick (pictured), brings 25 years of experience in financial services and financial technology from his previous roles as an investment banker, an equity research analyst, and a strategic communications advisor. He joins Dash from Brunswick Group, where he served as a Partner, specialising in M&A transactions, IPOs and investor relations matters. Prior to Brunswick, Patrick was a Managing Director in the Financial

International law firm Dorsey & Whitney has appointed Helena Nathanson and Paul Regan as partners in the firm’s Finance & Restructuring Group in London. Nathanson and Regan are experienced advisers to corporate trustee houses. Their expertise includes the full range of capital markets and finance transactions, including high yield bonds, exchange traded products, asset backed commercial paper programmes and securitisations. In addition to new financings, the pair also advise on all post-issuance matters ranging from exercises of discretion to defaults and schemes of arrangement. Nathanson has been active in the City for over 15 years and is well known to major corporate