Anchin, Block & Anchin has appointed a new Partner, Raphy Soussan (pictured) and a new Director, Marc Nadritch to the firm’s team. Soussan is a Commercial Audit Partner with more than 20 years of experience providing auditing, accounting and consulting services to private companies, with more than 15 years at Big Four and national firms. Soussan also has extensive experience working with clients to develop proactive tax and business strategies. He has focused on a variety of industries, including, among others, fashion and apparel, food and beverage, manufacturing and distribution, healthcare, and technology. Soussan also has experience working with international

Sigma Analysis & Management (Sigma), a specialist in advising institutional investors on managed account solutions, hedge fund portfolio construction and research, and risk analytics, has appointed Megan Vesely, JD as General Counsel.   Vesely joins Sigma at its Toronto office to provide legal counsel on a variety of business and regulatory issues including cross-border matters and corporate development in the financial services industry.   “I am thrilled to join Sigma at a time of increased global regulation and change in the investment industry,” says Vesely. “Through its innovative model for hedge fund investing, Sigma is well positioned to lead investors

Monument Group, an independent alternative investment fund placement agent, has hired three professionals to join Managing Director Niklas K Amundsson (pictured) in the firm’s Hong Kong office. The new additions to the Monument team are Albert Jun, Director, Sabrina Meng, Senior Associate and Kris Ho, Operations Manager.   The Hong Kong team will be based at Monument Group’s new permanent offices in Two Exchange Square, the hub of the local private equity community.   Amundsson joined Monument Group in January 2015 as a Managing Director to help the firm expand its Asia footprint. Before joining Monument Group, Niklas spent over

Prytania Investment Advisors has appointed Shaun Curry (pictured) as Head of Business Development (ex-US) with effect from 3 September 2015. Prior to joining Prytania, Curry was a Senior Business Development Executive at Stenham Asset Management and a Director of Marketing at Gottex Fund Management. Prior to his work on the buy-side, Shaun worked in sales and trading at Credit Suisse First Boston and research and sales at Merrill Lynch International.   At Prytania, Curry will be responsible for institutional Business Development across the globe with the exception of the United States. His extensive relationships and experience working with institutional investors

BCS Global Markets (BCS), the international arm of BCS Financial Group, has appointed Adam Wood to the position of Director in the Prime Brokerage Sales team in London. In his role, Wood will work to maintain and establish strong relationships with high frequency traders, proprietary trading firms specialising in arbitrage and major hedge funds across accounts in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and United States.   Prior to joining BCS, Wood worked as a relationship manager at ABN AMRO Clearing Bank, where he was responsible for business development and sales with buy-side and proprietary trading firms across global accounts. Prior

Sprott Asset Management has appointed Dennis Mitchell as Senior Portfolio Manager and Senior Vice President, pending regulatory approval.  Mitchell is a highly-regarded investment professional who, prior to joining Sprott, served as Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at a leading Canadian investment firm. In his previous role, Mitchell managed funds with more than USD2 billion in assets and oversaw more than USD18 billion in total assets. "We are thrilled to welcome Dennis Mitchell to our investment team. Dennis is a well-known portfolio manager with deep experience managing global equity, infrastructure and REIT funds. We look forward to expanding our

Swedish advisory and capital introduction company OE Capital is expanding its business with the appointment of Johan Strömberg (pictured) as Head of Sales.  Strömberg will also become partner & board member in OE Capital when regulatory approval is granted.  Strömberg previously held senior roles at KKR, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (Head of Nordic Sales), Brummer & Partners (Head of Institutional Sales) & Nordea Investment Management (Head of Institutional Clients). Oscarsson & Engman Capital AB (OE Capital) is an independent Nordic advisory and capital introduction firm with a focus on Alternative Investments, located in Stockholm. The company is supervised by the Swedish

Alternative investment firm Angelo, Gordon & Co has appointed Joshua S Baumgarten (pictuered) – currently a Senior Managing Director of The Blackstone Group – as Senior Managing Director and Head of Credit. Baumgarten will report to Michael Gordon, Angelo Gordon's co-founder and Chief Investment Officer, and oversee the firm's credit strategies – US and European Distressed, Leveraged Loans, RMBS/ABS/Whole Loans, CMBS, Middle Market Lending and Energy Lending. The credit portfolio managers, and their investment teams, remain the same.    "Over the past five years, we have grown and diversified our credit platform as our clients continue to use credit as an important part

Cordium, a provider of regulatory compliance consulting, software, accounting and tax services to the asset management and securities industry, has appointed Lusine Moshkounian (pictured) as Vice President. Moshkounian has over 17 years of experience in compliance and has joined Cordium as Vice President of its compliance consulting division in San Francisco.   Moshkounian’s role will see her helping investment managers successfully implement and maintain a comprehensive compliance program unique to each firm’s size, structure, and client base. Her clients include managers of hedge funds, private equity/venture capital funds, and other private funds as well as traditional investment advisers providing

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