AcadiaSoft, provider of the MarginSphere collateral hub, has appointed Mark Demo (pictured) as Product Director.  Demo, who will assume responsibility for directing the company’s response to regulatory changes and will lead AcadiaSoft’s product and industry working groups, will be based in New York and will report to AcadiaSoft Chief Executive Officer Chris Walsh.    Demo joins from JP Morgan Chase where he was Vice President of Business Architecture and Transformation and was responsible for Collateral Market Infrastructure planning in the OTC Derivative space and for implementing technology and business process changes associated with Derivatives Financial Reform in the JP Morgan Corporate

Jeff Mazer and Katya Baron have joined Aequitas Capital as senior managing director of capital markets and treasury, and managing director of capital markets, respectively. Mazer has more than 30 years of financial services industry experience. He most recently served as a director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Global Liquidity Investment Solutions unit, where he led a team that helped deliver investment management solutions for clients with approximately USD63 billion in assets. Mazer will be responsible for managing the company's portfolio of investment offerings, executing senior and junior debt and credit strategies, and serving as an advisor to executive

TABB Group has promoted Anthony J Perrotta (pictured), Jr and Andy Nybo to partner, global heads of research and consulting.  According to Larry Tabb, founder and CEO, TABB Group, they have been appointed to the financial markets research and consulting firm’s executive management committee. Perrotta is now directing all aspects of the firm’s client management, business development, and research content development. Nybo is directing all aspects of TABB’s research activities including equities, listed derivatives, fixed income and technology. “As the financial industry continues undergoing significant regulatory reform, market structure changes and business model adaptation,” says Tabb, “we wanted to forge

ENSO Financial Analytics (ENSO), a provider of data-driven investment and operational insights for hedge funds, has appointed Michael McMahon (pictured) as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).  McMahon will join the executive team and will be responsible for expanding ENSO's network infrastructure and core analytics. He will report to Partner and Co-Founder, Dwaine Alleyne. McMahon was previously a Managing Director at Bank of New York Mellon, where he led several engineering and architecture teams in building a big data analytics platform for the bank. His vast knowledge base in information technology systems includes enterprise architecture for complex design and large data integration

The Institute of Trading and Portfolio Management (ITPM) has appointed fund manager and ex-Goldman Sachs and Brevan Howard trader Tristan Edwards as a Senior Trading Mentor in Australia and New Zealand.   Edwards has over 15 years' experience as a Professional Trader. After graduating with a degree in Commerce from the University of Tasmania in 1996, he joined the Commonwealth Department of Finance as part of their 1997 graduate program working on the Australian Commonwealth National Budget.  He soon moved to the private sector and started his career in trading with Goldman Sachs in Melbourne as an Institutional Equities Trader

Munich Reinsurance America, has appointed John Vasturia (pictured) and Jill Beggs to new leadership positions, effective immediately. Vasturia has been named as President of Munich Re America’s Specialty Markets and a member of the Company’s US P&C Executive Board. Vasturia replaces Carsten Prussog who has assumed a new leadership role with Munich Re (Group). Previously, Vasturia served as Head of New Strategic Markets, with responsibility to establish an Innovation Practice and Risk Incubator for the US P&C Operations of Munich Re. Prior to this role, John was President of Regional Clients Underwriting at Munich Reinsurance America, Inc. Vasturia first joined

CRT Capital Group (CRT), an independent institutional broker-dealer, has expanded its institutional sales, trading and research platform with the hiring of six new senior research analysts.  These hires follow CRT’s April 2015 acquisition of the Institutional Equities business of Sterne Agee Group, Inc., which is now branded as Sterne Agee CRT, and strengthens the organisation’s role as a leading provider of alpha-generating research for its institutional client base. Joining CRT Sterne Agee’s highly-regarded Research Group as Managing Directors are Robert Cihra, Douglas Freedman, Vinay Misquith, April Scee, Peter Winter and Brett Levy. Robert Cihra joins the firm’s Technology sector research

Frank C Meyer has retired from the Board of Directors of Fifth Street Asset Management. Mark J Gordon has been appointed to the Audit Committee and David J Anderson to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee to fill the vacancies created by Meyer's departure.  Additionally, Chief Executive Officer Leonard M Tannenbaum (pictured) has been named Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. At this time, the Board has determined to not fill the vacancy created by Meyer's resignation and to decrease the size of the Board from seven members to six members.  "We would like to thank Frank for

Caerus is to join the Ramius alternative investment platform, enabling the firm to enhance its operations and accelerate the marketing of its fundamental, consumer-focused long/short equities strategy. Headquartered in New York, Caerus is led by Founder and Chief Investment Officer Ward Davis and Managing Partner and Co-Portfolio Manager Brian Agnew. Davis was one of three founding partners at Trivium Capital Management, where he co-managed USD940 million and oversaw all consumer-focused equities investments. He was also a Managing Director at Chilton Investment Company, where he headed the Consumer Team.  Brian Agnew, Caerus Global Managing Partner and Co-Portfolio Manager, was previously a Portfolio Manager