People
Cowen Group has made two new senior hires within the electronic trading division of Cowen & Company.
Jason Oien joins as managing director and head of electronic trading services.
Jennifer Hadiaris joins as managing director and head of global market structure.
“Jason and Jennifer play a key role in furthering Cowen’s position as the leading platform for broker-neutral execution solutions,” says Dan Charney, Cowen’s head of equities. “Our priority is to help clients make informed trading decisions by providing value-added tools – such as non-conflicted trading and algorithmic execution – and insights on issues that impact clients. Jason
Eze Software Group, a provider of global investment management technology, has opened an office in Toronto.
The Toronto location marks a new chapter in Eze Software’s growth in North America, enabling the team to provide faster on-the-ground support for implementations and client operations in Canada.
“As long-time technology partners to Canada’s investment management community, we’ve seen the market become more sophisticated and complex over the last few years,” says Pete Sinisgalli (pictured), CEO. “Having an office in Canada will allow us to be closer to our clients and facilitate faster and better service, in line with our strategy of
Independent trust, fund, real estate and corporate services provider First Names Group has promoted Karen O’Hanlon to managing director of its Singapore business.
The appointment is effective immediately.
O’Hanlon will lead the team in Singapore, continuing to build on the foundations developed over her last two years as director with First Names Group.
O’Hanlon has nearly 30 years of global experience providing trust services to corporates and family businesses.
“Karen is a highly experienced professional who I am certain will be an invaluable asset as we continue to attract new business and deepen our footprint in the
Global fund administrator FundBPO has opened an office in Malta which will be headed by new hire Malcolm St John.
St John has more than 15 years of fund services experience, most recently with Apex Fund Services and HSBC.
The office opening follows FundBPO’s receipt of a Recognition Certificate from the Malta Financial Services Authority to act as a fund administrator in Malta.
Malta is an emerging jurisdiction for the formation and administration of funds in the European Union, with a net asset value of EUR10 billion in over 500 locally based funds.
FundBPO (Malta) Limited’s new
Triad Securities is expanding into the Boston area with the hiring of Tom Landsbergen as director, prime brokerage sales.
Landsbergen (pictured) has over 22 years' experience in the prime brokerage industry.
Before joining Triad, he was responsible for prime brokerage sales and client service for JP Morgan and Bear Stearns in New England and Canada for 16 years. Prior to that, he held various positions with the prime brokerage platforms of Furman Selz/ING Barings. Landsbergen has extensive experience assisting clients on financing, clearing, recruiting, marketing, service provider selection, investor relations, and treasury functions.
"I am excited to join Triad,"
Quantopian, a free online platform for the education and creation of institutional-quality investment algorithms, has hired Marc Volpe as chief financial officer (CFO).
Volpe has an extensive background in hedge funds, accounting, compliance, strategic planning, and risk management.
"Marc is joining us as we prepare to manage external capital in early 2017," says John Fawcett, founder and CEO of Quantopian. "Marc's skills and background will help us in our efforts to provide the highest returns that we can for our investors, and through those returns, a growing stream of payments to selected algorithm authors from our community."
Volpe
The Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB) has appointed Luke Ellis, CEO of Man Group, and Henry Kenner, CEO and founder of Arrowgrass Capital Partners, to its board.
The appointments come at a time when the HFSB is seeing global growth in the managers and institutional investors supporting the Hedge Fund Standards.
In 2016, 19 additional managers became signatories to the Standards. Also in 2016, six additional institutional investors overseeing USD220 billion in capital joined the HFSB Investor Chapter.
The HFSB is forming a working group on liquid alternatives. Given the growth in regulated alternative investment funds in the
Help For Children, formerly Hedge Fund Care, has appointed four new members to its global board of directors – Don Steinbrugge, Jeffrey Bronheim, Lucia Arienti and Nicholas Halaby.
Dean Backer, chairman of the HFC board of directors, says: “The breadth, depth and diversity of experience that these newest members bring to HFC will play an important role in our ability to continue to grow and expand our global impact.”
Steinbrugge (pictured) is the founder and CEO of Agecroft Partners, a global hedge fund consulting and marketing firm. With over 30 years of experience within the alternative investment community, he frequently
Investment management firm Aristotle has launched Aristotle Atlantic Partners, a New York City-based investment management firm focused on large cap growth and large cap core domestic equity strategies.
The team at Aristotle Atlantic was formerly at Deutsche Asset Management and will be led by Joseph Benevento and Owen Fitzpatrick, supported by five equity research analysts.
Benevento, previously chief investment officer of the Americas at Deutsche Asset Management, where he oversaw equity, fixed income, multi-asset, currency and commodity strategies, joins Aristotle Atlantic as chief investment officer. He was a member of the Deutsche Asset Management, Americas asset management executive committee
Cordium, a provider of governance, risk and compliance services to financial and professional services firms, has appointed Richard Hudson as vice president of its cybersecurity and data protection consulting services.
Hudson (pictured) joins from Mizuho Bank where he was the Information Security Officer for 17 years and managed the information security program for all offices in North and South America.
He has over 25 years of experience working in an information security role as well as ensuring cybersecurity programmes comply with regulatory requirements.
At Cordium, Hudson will be assisting clients in assessing cybersecurity risks and providing ongoing guidance
