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Stuart Howard has joined HarbourVest as Chief Operating Officer, European Listed Products. Based in London, Howard is responsible for overseeing HarbourVest’s role in the operations of HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited (HVPE) and HarbourVest Senior Loans Europe (HSLE), two listed investment companies managed by HarbourVest affiliates.
Stuart joins HarbourVest from 3i, where he spent over ten years, most recently as Chief Operating Officer for Asia and the Americas. He has also held senior positions within 3i Infrastructure plc and 3i’s Quoted Private Equity plc. Stuart is a chartered accountant and prior to joining 3i in 2001 was at Credit Agricole
State Street Corporation has appointed Paul McLaughlin (pictured) as head of operations for the firm’s Alternative Investment Solutions team in Guernsey.


McLaughlin, who has more than 15 years of experience in the alternative investment industry, joins State Street to help further build its alternative investment servicing business in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) with a particular focus on the private equity and real estate funds sectors.


McLaughlin joins from BNY Mellon in Dublin where he worked for 11 years, most recently as head of alternative investment servicing fund of funds and private equity for EMEA. He also gained experience
Macro Risk Advisors (MRA), a provider of equity derivatives strategy and trade execution for institutional investors, has strengthened its team with the hiring of Michael Buckjune, Ed Lalanne and Frank Trentacoste.
The senior appointments are part of an ongoing expansion effort at MRA to further support its growing client base and meet increasing investor demand for cross-asset risk analysis.
“Michael, Ed and Frank bring deep understanding of risk across multiple markets,” says Dean Curnutt, the founder and CEO of MRA. “Their expertise will give our buy-side clients, including many of the industry’s largest hedge funds, the global risk perspectives they
Tim Love and Joaquim Nogueira have both left CQS to join GAM as Investment Director and Investment Manager, respectively.
Love and Nogueira join GAM’s London office to manage a UCITS product in the GAM Star range, an actively-managed long emerging markets equity fund expected to launch in the first quarter of 2012. The fund aims to profit from the inherent growth potential in emerging market economies.
Both join from CQS where they managed a long/short emerging market equity portfolio. Love and Nogueira bring more than 31 years of investment experience to GAM alongside a wealth of region-specific knowledge and a
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has appointed Michael Ho to chief investment officer for its active emerging markets equities and global macro capabilities.
Ho, who will be based in Boston, joins SSgA from Mellon Capital Management where he oversaw all investments as chief investment officer, responsible for approximately USD220 billion in assets under management, spanning all investment disciplines including global tactical asset allocation, currency, quantitative equity, active and passive fixed income and index equity strategies. Earlier in his career, Ho was head of research for Global Tactical Asset Allocation and oversaw hedge funds at Mellon Capital where he generated a
Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) has appointed Jan Straatman (pictured) as Chief Investment Officer, a newly-created position, effective 1 March 2012. He joins from ING Investment Management where for the last two years he was Global CIO, overseeing EUR330 billion of client assets.
Straatman will be based in London, reporting to Hubert Keller, who is a Managing Partner of Lombard Odier and co-responsible for LOIM along with Thierry Lombard.
With 28 years of investment experience, Straatman joined ING’s European asset management unit as CIO in 2008 before becoming global CIO for that business. While there, he oversaw 800 investment professionals
Paladyne Systems, a Broadridge company has appointed William Kelly as global head of sales. His appointment is a strategic move to leverage the size, scale, and synergies that Broadridge brings to Paladyne through its recent acquisition.
"Paladyne is working to accelerate sales across the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific, and Bill brings the necessary experience to lead our business development efforts globally," says Sameer Shalaby (pictured), President, Paladyne Systems. "He will be instrumental in extending Paladyne’s unique solutions to new and existing clients across the buy-side industry."
Most recently Managing Director and Global Head of Sales at GlobeOp Financial Services,
Advent Software has appointed Hazem Elmalla as the new head of professional services in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In this role, Elmalla will support Advent’s ongoing operation and be responsible for the professional services teams dedicated to clients in the region.
Advent Software has been engaged in the Middle East and North Africa and active as a member of the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC) since 2004. More than 30 MENA-based clients today use Advent’s specific local solutions combined with its world-class investment management systems. As evidence of the company’s commitment to the region and to understanding
Aquila Capital, the Hamburg-based alternative investment company, has appointed Oldrik Verloop to lead business development in Benelux and Scandinavia.
Verloop, 36, joins Aquila Capital from Switzerland’s oldest bank, Wegelin & Co, where he developed and implemented a market entry strategy for the Benelux and Scandinavian institutional markets. Originally qualified in Dutch civil law, Verloop started his career with leading US telecom company MCI WorldCom, before moving to Cameroon to lead the West African operations of a commodity trading firm. He later returned to the Netherlands to join Shell Gas & Power’s corporate strategy, planning and portfolio department. He holds an
The IMS Group (IMS), the leading regulation and compliance consultancy, has bolstered its consultancy offering with four new hires.
Dominic Williams, Elisebeth Slater and Michael Strug join as compliance consultants. Saira Farooq joins as a consultant in the dedicated Regulatory Transactions Team.
Williams has worked in the financial services industry for 15 years, and in compliance roles for the last 13 years, predominantly with asset managers, including most recently five years as the standalone compliance officer at J. Rothschild Capital Management. At IMS, Williams will provide compliance advice to a range of clients including asset managers, private equity firms and hedge
