Operational Due Diligence Solutions Provider Shadmoor Advisors has appointed Brad Stehle as Managing Director.  An alternative investment industry veteran with almost 20 years’ experience, most recently serving as Director at Unigestion, SA, and formerly with Citigroup, Bank of New York, and Deutsche Bank, Stehle provides Shadmoor’s clients with deep, senior-level operational due diligence expertise across various hedge fund, private equity, long-only, and private real estate strategies.
 
   “Sophisticated investors are increasingly focused on the need to complete operational due diligence across all asset classes, both at the inception of an investment and on a regular basis throughout the life

Horseshoe Group (Horseshoe) has made two senior hires to strengthen its fund administration offering. Keenan Press and Gordon Paterson have been appointed as SVP – Head of Investor Services and Group Manager – Fund accounting respectively.

Beachhead Capital Management, an investment advisory firm that specialises in liquid alternative investments, has appointed Dr Pankaj Ghemawat to oversee the firm’s Research Advisory Board, which focuses on structural changes within the asset management industry.  Ghemawat (pictured), currently serves as a full professor at both the NYU Stern School of Business and IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Prior to this, he was a professor at Harvard Business School, and was the youngest person appointed to a full professorship. Ghemawat is the author of eight books and over one hundred articles, and has received numerous industry awards. He has an AB

Ebury, a fintech focused on corporate global transaction services, has opened its first office outside of Europe in Toronto Canada, which will be led by Matthew Acton-Davis as Country Manager.  This first Canadian office has been set up to support demand for international currency payments and collections, foreign exchange risk management and import finance solutions from businesses based in Canada. The new office will be located on Wellington Street in the heart of Toronto.    Ebury now employ over 600 staff across Europe, with plans to sail through the 1000 mark before the end of May 2018 including aggressive expansion plans in

Torstone Technology, a provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, has appointed Payal Raina to the newly created position of Global Head of Marketing, with immediate effect. Raina will be responsible for overseeing Torstone Technology’s global marketing and branding initiatives as well as internal and external communications for the company. With over a decade of experience in B2B marketing for financial and technology companies in Europe and North America, Payal has a wealth of experience implementing successful marketing strategies, building brands and subsequently increasing revenues of global businesses.   Brian Collings (pictured), CEO, Torstone Technology, says: “Payal’s extensive knowledge of

PPB Capital Partners, a designer and administrator of alternative investment funds for the wealth management industry, has appointed Frank Burke as chief investment strategist. Burke (pictured), will advise PPB Capital’s network of investment advisors on selecting best-of-class alternative investment products for its clients.    “We are pleased to welcome Frank to our growing team,” says Brendan Lake, chief executive officer of PPB Capital Partners. “Frank’s deep knowledge of alternative asset classes will provide our platform of private investments services increased breadth and depth. As one of the lead portfolio managers of Hatteras Funds, Frank brings a wealth of experience sourcing

Aquis Exchange, the exchange services group, has hired Adrian Ip to the newly-created role of head of project/product management. Aquis Exchange consists of two divisions, one operates a pan-European cash equities trading exchange (Aquis Exchange), which uniquely uses the subscription pricing model, and the other arm develops and licenses exchange software to third parties (Aquis Technologies).   Aquis Technologies creates and licenses a cost-effective matching engine and market surveillance technology for banks, brokers, investment firms and exchanges, as well as single dealer platforms for the growing Systematic Internaliser market segment. In Europe there is particular demand for compliance and surveillance

CubeLogic, a specialist in Business Intelligence products and services for risk management in the energy, commodity, and financial markets, has appointed Mark Crosno (pictured), as Vice President of US sales to help manage the exploding interest in cloud-enabled BI for risk management. Following more than 100 per cent growth over the past 12 months, and numerous new customers, CubeLogic is experiencing tremendous interest and demand for our products and services. With 30+ years of experience, half directly in the energy commodity trading and origination market and the second half in the energy commodity CTRM software business, Mark is perfectly suited

Saxo Capital Markets UK Ltd (SCML), the UK subsidiary of Saxo Bank A/S, has appointed Andrew Edwards as its new CEO effective from January 2018. Edwards (pictured), joins SCML as an experienced CEO with over eighteen years in the sector, twelve which were spent establishing and expanding a complex financial services business. Edwards most recently served as CEO of ETX Capital and his appointment will strengthen Saxo’s ambition to further build out and facilitate partnerships and collaborations as well as giving private clients access to multi-asset trading capabilities.   Anthony Belchambers, Non-Executive Chairman, SCML, says: “We are delighted to welcome

International law firm Proskauer has promoted 23 lawyers, 14 to partner and nine to senior counsel, including three partners promotions in the private investment funds and private equity teams in London. “We are pleased to promote this outstanding group to our ranks as partner and senior counsel,” says Proskauer Chairman Joe Leccese. “We applaud them on achieving this significant milestone in their careers and are confident that they will continue to make remarkable contributions to our clients in the years ahead.”   Edward Lee advises fund managers and institutional investors on a broad range of matters relating to private funds,