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Catalyst Funds, an alternative-focused mutual fund company, has added three new members to its team, and made one internal promotion.
Dustin Tait, who previously served as regional investment consultant, has been promoted to external wholesaler and will be based out of Nashville. In this new role, he will cover Tennessee and West Virginia. Tait worked in various investment consulting roles for JP Morgan before joining Catalyst.
The new additions to Catalyst’s team include one new hire to the wholesaling team and two new positions in the marketing department.
Joseph McCart, who serves as an internal wholesaler covering Michigan
Ogier has promoted Geoffrey Delamarre and Bernard Elslander to senior associate as part of the firm’s global mid-year promotions.
Delamarre has been a member of the corporate team since 2014, specialising in the establishment of private equity and real estate structures, and Elslander has been part of the firm’s investment funds team since 2016, specialising in unregulated funds.
The promotions follow Anne-Gaëlle Delabye’s promotion to partner in June and Benjamin Devouassoux’s promotion to senior associate in February, as well as the recent arrivals of counsel Eva Gyori-Toursel and associate Cecilia Gomes.
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Crawford Lake Capital Management (Crawford Lake), a private investment management firm that specialises in trading-oriented long/short equity strategies, has appointed Dov Lando as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer.
Lando joins from MKP Capital Management where he spent six years as General Counsel with responsibility for managing global legal and compliance operations. At Crawford Lake, Lando will oversee all legal, regulatory and compliance matters, while also working with the firm’s executive committee on strategic initiatives.
“Dov is the perfect person to lead Crawford Lake’s legal and compliance functions as we continue to grow and evolve,” says Jeff Schachter, President
Fund administrator Apex Group (Apex) has expanded its US team with the addition of several new senior hires in the firm’s New York office.
Apex continues to grow rapidly in markets across North America, expanding its global footprint following a series of successful acquisitions teamed with organic growth.
The Group now has a strong presence across the Americas region with offices in Atlanta, Charlotte, New York, Santa Ana and San Francisco, in addition to Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Toronto and Uruguay. Apex’s focus on expanding its brand and service capabilities across North America sees the addition of seven new senior
CreativeCap Advisors has launched an Institutional Investor-only Global Board of Advisors for the firm’s Global Emerging Manager Incubator, with the appointment of Hong-Kong based Mark Hibbs, Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Adamas Capital Partners.
“The search for the right Advisory Board members has been a comprehensive and strategic process. We want to ensure we are reaching every corner of the world. We are incredibly fortunate and humbled to have Mark Hibbs join our Advisory Board. His appointment signals our strong commitment to start-up funds based in Asia,” says Tyra S Jeffries, Founder and CEO of CreativeCap Advisors. “He brings
Dash Financial Technologies, a specialist in order routing transparency, visualisation and customisation solutions, has appointed Stino Milito as Co-COO.
Reporting directly to CEO Peter Maragos, Milito (pictured), will be responsible for product strategy and leading Dash’s Institutional buy-side team, a growing group that works with the firm’s asset management and hedge fund clients to help craft highly-tailored trading solutions.
Milito is based in Chicago, where he leads the office along with Co-COO Tim Miller. This is his second stint with Dash, rejoining the firm from ED&F Man Capital Markets where he was Director of Trading, UIT. One of Dash’s
Options, a managed service and IT infrastructure provider to the global capital markets industry, has appointed former Finastra and OpenLink Financial executive Michael Russo to its management team.
Russo joins the New York team as VP, Product Management where he will be responsible for driving new business growth and supporting the firm’s Managed Application services.
Russo brings nearly two decades of industry experience to Options from Finastra and OpenLink Financial, where he oversaw global business development and growth of the firm’s burgeoning cloud-based solutions. Michael was a key contributor and leader in the expansion and development of the firm’s
Active investment management firm Man Group has appointed Jason Mitchell as Co-Head of Responsible Investment. Together with Steven Desmyter, Co-Head of Responsible Investment, Mitchell will oversee responsible investment activities across Man Group.
In his new role, Mitchell (pictured) will work across the firm’s investment engines to ensure that investment processes and policies identify and integrate operational, governance and strategic risks. Reporting to Sandy Rattray, Man Group’s Chief Investment Officer, Mitchell will be responsible for directing the development of impact, thematic and norms-based investment strategies as well as the broader integration of ESG criteria across asset classes and multi-asset solutions.
Frostrow Capital, an independent investment companies group and AIFM, has appointed Matthew Burrows as a director in its distribution team where he will add support to the business’ well-established team promoting its investment company clients.
The hire comes as Frostrow continues to implement its ambitious growth strategy.
Burrows joins Frostrow having spent three years at Standard Life Wealth as a senior client portfolio manager where he managed discretionary portfolios for private clients, pensions, charities and trusts. Prior to joining Standard Life, Burrows worked at Falcon Private Wealth as an investment manager and adviser from 2013 to 2015. He began
Guernsey Finance is set to take a broader role in the development of the island’s financial services sector through the permanent appointment of Dr Andy Sloan as Deputy Chief Executive, Strategy.
Sloan (pictured), has been Acting Director of Strategy on part-time secondment from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission for the past nine months. He now joins permanently to oversee development of jurisdictional-wide financial services strategy through Guernsey Finance in line with the role set out in the Committee for Economic Development’s recently approved Economic Vision.
Dominic Wheatley, Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance, says: “Dr Sloan complements the strong team
