Geneva-based asset manager Quaero Capital has appointed James Hepworth as head of sales for the UK, charged with building relationships with UK institutional investors from the firm’s London office. Hepworth, 53, joins Quaero Capital in April from Paris-based Asset Managers & Advisors, where he was a founder and managing director from 2009. The firm created JVs on both sell-side equity research and fund raising for international asset managers including private and public market strategies.   Previously Hepworth was a senior vice president and head of European sales for Jefferies International in Paris.   Hepworth has also worked for ABN Amro

Markov Processes International (MPI), a fintech provider of tools and services for analysing investment performance and risk, has appointed Bijan Foroodian (pictured) as managing director of EMEA. Based out of London, he will be responsible for MPI's overall business and client relationships across EMEA.   Foroodian has over 20 years’ experience in the global fund industry with specific focus in the UK, Japan and the US. Prior to MPI, he was chief investment officer for Inflection Point Capital Management and, before that, Innovest Strategic Value Advisors acting as chief investment officer and managing director. In those capacities, he was instrumental in developing

Fund and corporate services provider the Aztec Group has strengthened its real assets team in Luxembourg with the appointment of Stephen Osmont as associate director. In this new role, Osmont (pictured) will lead the real assets teams in Luxembourg, with overall responsibility for the relationship management activities of those teams.   Osmont will also play an active role in helping to drive the continued growth of the group’s Luxembourg office which has grown from 49 to 152 employees in the last 12 months. He will work closely alongside the business development team to build and enhance relationships with local intermediaries,

Ultimus Fund Solutions, an independent provider of mutual fund, pooled investment and middle office services, has appointed Bill Tomko as an executive vice president, director of fund servicing. Tomko has nearly 30 years of third party fund administration experience, including time spent servicing mutual funds, hedge funds and private equity funds.   His varied executive experience includes operations, relationship management, strategic planning and sales.   In this new role at Ultimus, Tomko will be responsible for fund accounting, financial administration, transfer agency, new client implementations and relationship management.   Gary Tenkman (pictured), COO and managing director of Ultimus, says: “I

BlueMountain Capital Management, a private diversified alternative asset management firm with USD22 billion in assets under management, has appointed Rollo Wigan as client adviser in the firm’s London office. Wigan (pictured) will support ongoing client and business development activities for BlueMountain across Europe, the Middle East and Australia.   Wigan will work closely with the region’s institutional investors, consultants and high net worth individuals and their advisers, strengthening BlueMountain’s existing relationships and sourcing new investment opportunities. He joins the team led by Louisa Church, BlueMountain’s co-CEO of Europe and head of client advisory – EMEA, and a member of the

Man GLG, the discretionary investment management business of Man Group, has appointed William Ferreira as its head of machine learning. In this newly-created role, Ferreira will be responsible for developing Man GLG’s machine learning capabilities, providing the firm’s portfolio managers with tools and techniques through which to support their analysis and decision-making processes.   He will also work directly with Man GLG’s teams on the application and interpretation of machine learning techniques in relation to topics such as analysing news and social media, market events and announcements, and the visualisation of complex data.   Ferreira will use the knowledge and

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has added four new members to its board of directors. The new directors are Michael Herskovitz, director of fixed income risk operations and technology and co-head of enterprise operational risk at AllianceBernstein; Kathleen Lynch, chief operating officer for UBS Americas and Wealth Management Americas; Umesh Subramanian, co-head of the Goldman Sachs technology division; and Lara J Warner, chief compliance and regulatory affairs officer at Credit Suisse and a member of the executive boards of Credit Suisse Group and Credit Suisse.   The DTCC board of directors provides direction and oversight for DTCC in

LOGiQ Asset Management has appointed Colleen McMorrow and the Honourable Joe Oliver to its board of directors, effective 21 April 2017. McMorrow (pictured) has also been appointed the chair of the board's audit committee.   McMorrow is an accomplished business professional who recently retired as partner from a 38-year career at Ernst and Young where she held a number of senior leadership positions.   She presently serves as a director on various boards and also participates in the capacity of chair of the Finance and Audit Committee for the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario board and as a member of