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Brown Rudnick has strengthened its Corporate Practice in London with the appointment of veteran employment law Partner, Nicola Kerr.
Kerr, who was European Head of Employment at King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) (formerly SJ Berwin) for over 15 years, advises employers and senior executives at hedge funds, private equity houses, broker-dealers, family offices and other companies on contentious and non-contentious employment law issues. She focuses on employment law issues for major corporate transactions and restructurings, high value executive dismissals, team moves, boardroom disputes and high value employment litigation.
Kerr has successfully acted for financial institutions and executives in a
ANALEC North America has appointed Richard Marcus as head of sales in North America. He will report to ANALEC CEO Indy Sarker.
ANALEC is a leading financial technology company providing a comprehensive suite of products for the buy- and sell-side enhancing transparency, efficiency and increased productivity within the investment research and client servicing functions. The firm has users of its product suites in the US, Europe, and Asia.
Marcus brings a wealth of software enterprise sales expertise and experience, and will, (through ANALEC’s ResearchWise and ClientManager software) enable banks and brokerages to increase productivity and reduce costs. These goals
BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking today announced that it has hired Wike Groenenberg (pictured) as global head of emerging markets strategy.
Groenenberg will be responsible for strengthening the bank’s emerging markets franchise, combining global intelligence with local expertise in the bank’s research and strategy publications.
Groenenberg, who is based in London, will also drive dialogue with key decision makers including real money investors, absolute-return funds, central banks and policy makers. Additionally, she will lead the global house view on emerging markets internally and externally, co-ordinating the bank’s emerging markets strategy and trade ideas in all relevant regions.
Macro Risk Advisors (MRA), a provider of global equity derivatives strategy and trade execution for institutional investors, has appointed Meikel Mokry (pictured) as an Equity Derivatives Salestrader.
"Meikel brings a strong base of equity derivatives knowledge and valuable experience in delivering daily market insights," says Brian Bier, the Co-Head of Equity Derivative Sales and Trading at MRA. "Our institutional client base continues to seek our help to implement trades that effectively leverage volatility. Meikel's product knowledge furthers our mission in this area."
MRA's expansion of its salestrading effort comes as investors continue to confront global risks and look to the
Gottex Fund Management Holdings Limited (Gottex) has appointed Pierre Udriot as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Gottex Group.
Udriot will join Gottex as CFO on 16 November 2015 and will be based at Gottex’s regulated Swiss subsidiary Gottex Asset Management (Suisse) SA. Tim Roniger, Gottex’s current CFO, will work closely with Pierre through 30 November.
Udriot joins Gottex from Ernst & Young, where he was a Senior Manager specialising in the financial industry, first based in Switzerland and then in Singapore. Pierre is a Certified Public Accountant, conversant with various accounting standards, and a Lead Auditor accredited by
Electronifie, the operator of an anonymous all-to-all corporate bond trading marketplace, has elected Troy Paredes, a former Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Max Kamhi, an entrepreneur and strategic investor in early stage companies, to the company’s Board of Directors.
“Troy’s regulatory expertise and reputation for integrity, coupled with Max’s experience as an entrepreneur in the technology and finance industries, will be invaluable assets for our company as we grow our network of Subscribers and navigate through the evolving fixed income market landscape,” says Amar Kuchinad, Chief Executive Officer of Electronifie. “Both Troy and Max share our
HSBC Securities Services (HSS) has been appointed by Lynx Asset Management AB to provide administration and global transfer agency services to its two Swedish onshore fund vehicles, amounting to approximately USD1 billion assets under management.
Founded in 1999, Lynx is a Commodity Trading Adviser (CTA) with approximately USD6bn in assets under management and is part of the Brummer group.
These additional funds will be serviced by HSBC Securities Services Ireland (HSSI), which has had a client relationship with Lynx since 2004. It will be the first time that HSSI will service such Swedish onshore funds.
Tony McDonnell (pictured),
Harvest Exchange, a software platform that builds public and private digital communities across the financial services sector,has appointed Derek Anderson as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), a newly created position.
Anderson, 35, reports to CEO Peter Hans and is charged with enhancing the efficiency and scalability of the firm’s proprietary software and developing new platform features and offerings.
"Derek joins at an inflection point for our business as the mechanisms and delivery of content marketing and investor communications continue to undergo a paradigm shift," says Hans.
Harvest has also added a new compliance module that allows for multiple compliance
Eze Castle Integration has hired Maria DeSousa (pictured) as its chief administrative officer. DeSousa is an experienced technology and financial services industry executive with more than 15 years of finance, operations and technology expertise.
Prior to joining Eze Castle Integration, DeSousa was director of finance, M&A at Factset Research Systems, Inc, where she was responsible for pre- and post-acquisition activities. Previously, DeSousa was vice president of finance and operations at Code:Red, an investment research software platform for financial services firms. Code:Red was acquired by Factset in February 2015. DeSousa will lead Eze Castle Integration’s finance department, with responsibilities including global
Bill Maher has joined Cowen Prime Services (Cowen Prime), the prime services division of Cowen, as Managing Director – Head of Client Services.
Mike Rosen, Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Prime Brokerage Servicesm says: “We are pleased to welcome Bill to Cowen Prime and believe his leadership of our client service effort will further enhance the firm’s relationships with our clients and further develop our presence in the alternative investment space. Bill is a seasoned prime brokerage executive with a great deal of experience in client service and support, and an impeccable reputation with alternative investment managers and institutional
