Katey Bogue has joined eVestment, a global leader in institutional investor data and analytics, as Head of Private Markets. She will be responsible for leading the growth and development of eVestment’s private markets solutions. This will include expanding eVestment’s private markets database and growing the company’s market intelligence, analytics and due diligence solutions for private markets general and limited partners.   Bogue (pictured), joins eVestment from Nasdaq, eVestment’s parent company, where she served as Head of Alternatives for Nasdaq Private Market. Her appointment illustrates the opportunities to share expertise and personnel between Nasdaq and eVestment that made eVestment an attractive

Mercury Capital Advisors, a global placement agent specializing in alternative investments, has appointed industry veteran, Reymundo Calcano, as Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. In his new role, Calcano (pictured), will report to Chief Executive Officer, Michael Ricciardi, and will lead the Mercury Capital Advisors’ finance team.   Calcano brings over 15 years of financial leadership and management experience to the Company. Prior to joining, Calcano served as Head of Finance and a member of the Executive Committee for Brevan Howard US. During his tenure at the firm, he worked as Finance and Operations Principal for Brevan Howard’s FINRA member broker-dealer

Intertrust in Jersey has appointed an experienced director in its Performance & Reward Management team. Melissa McConnell joins Intertrust as a client director, heading up the Deferred Compensation team. She will manage a range of client portfolios, providing trustee and administration services to those clients that are required to defer their bonuses for regulatory or company specific reasons. The team’s clients include asset managers, private equity companies, hedge funds, private companies and large listed companies. In addition to this, McConnell will develop the team’s service offering further and undertake business development. McConnell has 16 years’ experience in offshore trust administration

Private markets asset management firm Hamilton Lane has made a number of firm-wide promotions, naming seven professionals to the title of Principal.  “We congratulate this group of individuals and recognise their contributions to the organisation. With promotions across the firm’s investment, product and strategic technology platforms, as well as our client service functions, we have enhanced our senior team to better serve our new and existing clients around the world,” says Mario Giannini (pictured), CEO of Hamilton Lane. “The last year has been one full of milestones for Hamilton Lane, and the continued development of our deep bench of talent

Singapore Exchange (SGX) has appointed Mark Leahy as Head of Fixed Income. In this role, Leahy will be responsible for executing the strategy for SGX’s bond trading business, SGX Bond Pro, including driving institutional participation.  He will also continue to strengthen SGX’s Asia leadership in bond listings, maintaining the growth momentum with SGX on track to exceed its FY2017 listings record.    Leahy (pictured) has more than 27 years’ experience in fixed income trading, syndication and capital markets and played key roles in the development of the fixed income franchises of several major international banks in the region, including Nomura International,

Duco, a data engineering technology company, has appointed Mireille Dyrberg as Chief Operating Officer (COO), with responsibility for customer success, all administrative functions, finance and legal.  Dyrberg (pictured) joins from NEX Group’s TriOptima, where she was Chief Operating Officer and previously CEO of EMEA. The appointment follows a recent USD28 million funding round for Duco. Christian Nentwich, Duco CEO, says: “Mireille brings deep industry knowledge and a reputation for execution to Duco at a time when the company is scaling rapidly and globally. She adds significant capital markets technology and strategy experience to the management team, strengthening our approach to

Aspect Capital (Aspect), a USD7.5 billion systematic investment manager, has promoted Rosie Reynolds to Chief Commercial Officer and to the Board. In her new role, Reynolds will remain responsible for Aspect’s commercial strategy and the management of the Business Development team, as well as playing a greater role in developing and delivering the company’s strategic plans.   Anthony Todd (pictured), CEO of Aspect, says: “I am delighted to welcome Rosie to the Board and congratulate her on her new role. Rosie’s appointment reflects her broad involvement and impact on Aspect’s strategy over many years.  She has all the key skills

Commodities asset manager CoreCommodity Management has appointed Lawrence Danter as Managing Director, a newly-created position which includes responsibility for marketing the firm’s absolute return offerings.  CoreCommodity’s Founders Absolute Return Program, which is approaching its one-year anniversary, seeks to provide alpha through a diverse portfolio designed to be uncorrelated to traditional equity, fixed income and commodity markets. The strategy employs directional commodity exposure, inter- and intra-commodity relative value, and invests across natural resource equities.   “Larry’s stellar background and reputation further strengthens CoreCommodity as the most experienced commodities investment team in the industry,” says Bradford Klein, CoreCommodity Co-Founder. “He will be

Man Group has appointed Simon Finch as CIO of Credit at Man GLG, its discretionary investment management engine. In this newly created role, Finch will be responsible for Man GLG’s credit business and will have oversight of the credit portfolio management teams. Simon will report to Teun Johnston, CEO of Man GLG, and will work closely with Man GLG’s CIO Pierre-Henri Flamand and Man Group’s CIO Sandy Rattray. Finch will join Man Group’s Executive Committee and Man GLG’s management team.   Finch has 25 years of experience in credit investing and joins Man GLG from CQS, where he was CIO

JonesTrading Institutional Services has named David O’Shaughnessy as Managing Director in its Derivatives Trading Group. O’Shaughnessy is an industry veteran, bringing over 15 years’ experience and expertise to the team. He will be based in New York and report to Jeff Micsky, Head of Global Derivatives.   O’Shaughnessy joins JonesTrading having served in positions of increasing responsibility in derivatives trading during his career. Prior to joining, he served as Director in Equity Derivative Sales for Deutsche Bank New York. Prior to Deutsche Bank he held senior derivatives sales roles at Citadel Securities, BNP Paribas and Susquehanna.   Alan Hill (pictured), CEO