Global Prime Partners has appointed Tom Wooders as Head of Sales, Broker-Dealers and Intermediaries. Wooders, who has over 20 years experience in the financial services industry, will be responsible for growing the Company's international clearing and custody services. Prior to joining Global Prime Partners Wooders held frontline sales roles at JP Morgan, BNY Pershing, State Street and Broadridge.   Global Prime Partners’ clearing and custody services, which complements its prime brokerage offering, has recently extended its product range. Services now include client money and asset segregation which enable the Company to meet the growing needs of asset managers, broker dealers and other clients who are looking for

Offshore legal firm Appleby has expanded its funds practice with the appointment of Sailaja Alla (pictured) as a partner. Alla is returning to Appleby having spent seven years with the firm from 2000-2007 in Cayman and Hong Kong before leaving to join another offshore firm. She has spent the last three years at Harney’s and she now has 15 years of funds experience, specialising in the formation, maintenance and restructuring of a range of investment funds utilising corporate, partnership and unit trust structures. Bryan Hunter, Managing Partner for Appleby Cayman says, “We are delighted to welcome back Sailaja to our

The World Wide Web Foundation — the global advocacy organisation established by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee — has appointed Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss as its next Chairperson.  Beschloss will lead a diverse international board responsible for the strategic direction of the Foundation as it advances the open Web as a public good and a basic right. She will assume her new position on 1 November, when Rick Haythornthwaite steps down as chairman after more than three years of service.  Beschloss says: “The Web Foundation, and its founder, are playing a vital role in spreading knowledge, reducing inequality and promoting more

Alternative asset management firm TPG has named Jon Winkelried (pictured) as Co-Chief Executive Officer of TPG Holdings alongside TPG Co-Founder and current Chief Executive Officer Jim Coulter.  David Bonderman, who co-founded TPG with Coulter, will continue in his role as Co-Founder and Chairman of TPG. Winkelried, who previously served as the President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs, brings to TPG significant experience in helping build, manage and lead one of the world’s leading financial institutions. During his 27-year tenure at Goldman Sachs, Winkelried held various senior roles including co-head of the firm’s Investment Banking division, co-head of Fixed

RWC Partners’ Priya Kodeeswaran (pictured) has hired Colin Moar to join his team as a senior analyst.   Moar has over 17 years’ investment experience with research expertise across a number of sectors, with a particular focus on technology. He started his career at Aviva Investors as an analyst on the UK and pan-European equity teams for five years followed by seven years on the Global Equity team as an analyst then fund manager.  Moar then spent a year at HSBC Asset Management as a fund manager on the Global & Emerging Markets team before joining Polar Capital’s Technology team.

Options, a managed service and IT infrastructure provider to the global capital markets industry, has has expanded its operations in New York, relocating its Midtown office to a new, larger space on Third Avenue.  The move, necessary to accommodate the firm’s continued growth in the US, follows the recent consolidation of the IaaS provider’s two existing London offices into one larger space in the Victoria area of central London. Combined, the new offices in New York and London will have capacity for over 150 employees. Options’ global client presence now spans over 20 countries and the expanded New York office

Geneva-based asset management company Argos Investment Managers SA is changing its name to Quaero Capital SA.  The rebranding is driven by the firm’s continuing international expansion and a growing concern that its original name may lead to confusion with other businesses in the sector.  Founded in 2005 in Geneva, QUAERO Capital is a specialist investment management boutique that offers a range of actively managed, high-conviction funds with a commitment to fundamental research and original thinking. ‘Quaero’ – the Latin word for ‘I research’ or ‘I seek’, is consistent with that commitment. Quaero Capital is 100 per cent employee owned. Its

Macro Risk Advisors (MRA), a provider of global equity derivatives strategy and trade execution for institutional investors, has expanded its business development team with the addition of Katya Kouznetsov (pictured) as Vice President of Business Development and Clearing Operations.   The appointment of Kouznetsov is part of MRA’s plan to deliver its product and services to a wider audience of institutional investors who will benefit from exceptional analysis of global market risk. "Katya brings valuable experience in business development initiatives, including prospective client engagement and ongoing client success,” says Drew Forman, Co-Head of Equity Derivative Sales and Trading at MRA.

Linklaters has appointed Matt Keogh (pictured) as Global Practice Head of the Investment Management Group, succeeding Scott Bowie. The role is for a four year term with effect from 15 October 2015. A partner since 2012, Keogh’s practice includes all aspects of institutional investment products and transactions acting for both sponsors and investors, with a particular focus on alternative investment funds including private equity, real estate, infrastructure, debt and hedge funds, private equity style joint ventures and equity syndication.  Matt also has considerable experience in the operation of asset management houses as well as fund equity and debt financing (acting

Indos Financial, the UK’s only independent AIFMD depositary, is adding to its team with the appointment of Andrew Watson (pictured), a chartered accountant with over 14 years experience within the private equity and financial service industry. Watson joins INDOS Financial’s London office and will manage the firm’s growing private equity and real estate depositary business. Watson started his career in 1999 with PricewaterhouseCoopers working across a variety of Banking and Capital Markets clients. In 2003, Andrew joined the European private equity team at Bank of America as Financial Controller which later became Argan Capital, an independent European mid-market private equity