People
Euronext has announced a number of senior appointments in London and New York.
Paul Humphrey, Head of Fixed Income, Rates and FX (FICC), has been appointed as interim Head of Global Sales, and interim member of the Managing Board of Euronext, in addition to his current position and subject to regulatory approvals. He replaces Lee Hodgkinson who is leaving the company on 30 March 2018. Euronext is in the process of actively searching for Hodgkinson’s permanent replacement.
Alain Courbebaisse, Chief Information and Technology Officer, has been appointed as Chairman of the board of directors of FastMatch Inc, replacing Hodgkinson.
The Managed Funds Association (MFA) has appointed D Brooke Harlow, currently Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Public Affairs, as its Chief Commercial Officer, effective immediately.
In her nine-year tenure with MFA, Harlow has held leadership roles across a number of functions, including public affairs, communications, and membership.
“Brooke’s many contributions to the programming content and revenue growth of our Association have been significant, and her leadership has helped expand our constituency to include major investors through the MFA Institutional Investor Advisory Council,” says MFA’s President and CEO Richard H. Baker. “Brooke’s new role as MFA’s first Chief Commercial
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions and application hosting for alternative investment firms, has expanded its London office into a new, larger space to accommodate the firm’s growth in the UK.
The new Abacus office is strategically located near the firm’s client base in the West End, and is poised to absorb the company’s anticipated continued record growth in the UK during the rest of 2018 and into next year. Over the last year, Abacus has tripled its UK client base, made up of hedge funds, private equity firms, mutual funds, family offices, asset managers and independent software
Axioma has appointed Jason Connelly (pictured), as Managing Director, Business Strategy and Execution. He was previously Global Head of Analytics Managed Services at MSCI, Inc.
“Jason will focus on strategic efforts to identify, target and develop market opportunities for Axioma,” says Sebastian Ceria, Chief Executive Officer of Axioma. “Gaining a better understanding of the markets and segments we serve – and precisely matching the needs of those markets and segments to Axioma’s product capabilities and functionality – is key to our ability to drive sales efficiently.”
On the execution side, Connelly will collaborate with Marketing, Specialists and Sales to
Ripjar, a company that enables institutions to counter money laundering, cybercrime and other security threats, has appointed former GCHQ Director Sir Iain Lobban KCMG CB as a Senior Advisor.
Lobban will be providing strategic advice as Ripjar increase the pace and scale of its global operations in the highly competitive cyber security and anti-money-laundering sectors.
Lobban served at GCHQ – the UK Government Communications Headquarters – for over 30 years, becoming Director in 2008, after having previously served as Director General for Operations from 2004. As Director of Britain’s national signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance capability, he worked
Digital Shadows, a specialist in digital risk management and relevant threat intelligence, has expanded into Germany and Singapore with the opening of local offices and the recruitment of country managers in both key markets.
Stefan Bange has joined to run Digital Shadows’ German and DACH region and Lawrence Loh will run the Far Eastern region based out of Singapore.
“We are delighted to welcome Stefan and Lawrence to the Digital Shadows family and excited to be able to attract individuals of their calibre and experience to the company,” says Alastair Paterson (pictured), CEO and Co-Founder of Digital Shadows. “With
Heartwood Investment Management, the asset management arm of Handelsbanken in the UK, has made three new appointments.
Siobhan Pandya has joined as Head of Investment Communications. Pandya is responsible for developing and implementing the content and marketing strategy for Heartwood. She has extensive experience of generating and managing cross-asset content, having previously spent seven years at M&G Investments, most recently as Head of Equities Market Content. Siobhan has also held roles at Henderson Global Investors, Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan.
Alistair Campbell and Nikki Howes have joined as Investment Associates. Campbell’s primary area of research is alternatives and he
Laven has added to its compliance and operations consulting team with the appointment of Priscilla Babs as a Senior Consultant. Babs joins Laven’s GDPR team from BlueBay.
Babs has extensive experience working on global GDPR projects and other regulatory compliance matters. In her previous positions she worked on ensuring that business processes, policies, procedures and systems comply with the GDPR regulations. She has a great track record of successfully conducting GAP analyses, data flow mapping, recording of processing activities, conducting third party assessments as well as implementing the solutions across all business units.
Babs has previously worked at the Standard
Ogier has promoted Richard Bennett from the firm’s London based investment funds team to managing associate.
Bennett (pictured), who has been with Ogier since 2011, is a Registered Foreign Lawyer regulated by the Law Society of Hong Kong, and worked at Hogan Lovells and the UK Financial Services Authority before joining the firm.
He specialises in licensing, fund structuring and restructuring and financing arrangements under the laws of the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands for private equity and hedge fund clients.
Nicholas Plowman, the practice partner of Ogier’s Hong Kong office, says: “Ogier’s Caribbean funds team continues
TradingScreen (TS) has appointed Surika Vosloo as European Product Manager. In this role, Vosloo will focus on strengthening and extending TradingScreen’s product offering in Trading and Analytics.
Vosloo (pictured), brings nearly a decade of industry experience to TradingScreen and a proven record in client relations and project management. Previously at FlexTrade, Vosloo built and delivered products for some of the biggest asset managers around the world, oversaw global implementations of products and realised several procedural and architectural changes to improve time-to-market.
“Surika will bring deep insight and add tremendous value to our team and our product,” says Quentin Limouzi,
