A-TEAM CONSULTING - Key Persons
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- Member of the Fintech Advisor Amar Rajani Joins VTFinTech Board
- Fintech Advisor
- Member of Its Board
VTFinTech, a provider of index management and research evaluation services, has named Amar Rajani as a member of its board with immediate effect. Rajani is the founder and managing director of Argella, an advisory firm specialising in fintech and with specialist knowledge in research, data and analytics. Prior to founding Argella, Rajani spent 17 years…
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- CCO
- President & Chief Content Officer
Welcome to the second instalment of our Meet the A-Team series. This week, we'll focus on our always witty capital markets guru; President and Chief Content Officer, Andrew Delaney. Andrew has been with A-Team Group "since the beginning" - 20 years ago this year. When asked how he would describe what he does here, Andrew…
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- CEO
- Xceptor Replaces Retiring CEO
Xceptor, provider of a data automation platform, has announced the retirement of CEO Andrew Kouloumbrides and the appointment of Michiel Verhoeven as its new CEO. Verhoeven, managing director of SAP UK and Ireland, will take over leadership of Xceptor on 3 April 2023.
It's been 20 years since two enthusiastic entrepreneurs started tracking the financial technology industry in capital markets with the launch of A-Team Group. It's only fitting that on this esteemed anniversary, we share a little bit about those behind the scenes at your favourite content provider. Starting with the woman at the head of our…
Anthony Kirby will be leaving SmartStream Technologies at the end of this month to pursue other opportunities. Kirby joined a year ago as director of market management at SmartStream, reporting to chief executive officer Martin Brown. Prior to that Kirby worked at Deutsche Borse, Reuters, Swift, the former GSTPA, and Merrill Lynch. Kirby is also…
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- SIX As Head of Global Business Management
Beate Born has moved on from a 15 year tenure at UBS to join the financial information business of Zurich-based SIX as head of global business management. In her new role she will drive the business's key strategic goals. Born will also play a part in extending SIX's strength beyond home markets and into international…
Rimes Technologies, a provider of managed data services, has appointed Brad Hunt as CEO. The company describes the appointment as a follow-on from a ‘significant growth investment' in Rimes by Swedish private equity firm EQT Partners in February 2020. Rimes' co-founder and former CEO, Christian Fauvelais, retains a role on the company's board and will… Read More
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- Asset Management Technology Expert
IHS Markit has hired asset management technology expert Brett Schechterman as the Global Head of cross-asset class investment management platform thinkFolio. Schechterman will report to Senior Vice President and Head of Solutions Andrew Eisen. He was formerly Head of Fixed Income Platform Solutions at UBS Asset Management and has also held senior roles at Legal…
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- First Derivatives Founder
- Northern Irish Founder and CEO
Brian Conlon, the Northern Irish founder and CEO of the £1 billion+ FinTech firm First Derivatives, lost his battle with cancer on July 28, 2019 at the age of 53. Conlon started at KPMG and worked briefly at Morgan Stanley and software firm Sunguard before starting First Derivatives. He listed the company in 2002 but…
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- Named Head of EMEA at Data Quality Management Platform Provider Datasynthesis
Brian Sentance, former CEO of Xenomorph, is back in the data management business as head of EMEA for Datasynthesis, provider of a cloud-native data quality management platform that synchronises data governance, integration and quality to transform data policy into data operations. Sentance joins the New-York based leadership team of Datasynthesis, CEO Christian Robertson, and chief…
Carole Mahoney has joined the sales team of data management technology firm Cicada in London. Mahoney joins from Soliton, where she was director of UK sales. Prior to that, she was with Reuters for 12 years in various sales marketing and product management roles. At Cicada, Mahoney will become vice president of European Sales reporting…
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- Names Caroline O'Shaughnessy As Head of EMEA
Charles River Development (CRD), a State Street Company, has appointed Caroline O'Shaughnessy as senior vice president and head of EMEA with responsibility for all business oversight within the region and collaboration with State Street Alpha, State Street's global front-to-back office platform. O'Shaughnessy joins CRD, provider of the Charles River Investment Management Solution, from the London…
RegTek.Solutions has hired Chris Cornish as a consultant business analyst based in London. He joins from IHS Markit where he was a senior business analyst and a Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR) specialist. He was previously at ICBC Standard Bank, where he worked on SFTR implementation. At RegTek.Solutions, Cornish will focus on Validate.Trade, a product…
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- SimCorp COO and Member of the Executive Management Board
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- Joins Zelig Associates As Senior Advisor
Zelig Associates, a boutique investment bank specialising in fintech, has named Dale Richards as senior advisor. Richards will be based in Toronto and support the team globally. Richards has over 30 years' experience in fintech, data and analytics as a senior executive, investor and consultant. His appointment will strengthen Zelig's global reach and domain expertise…
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- Senior Vice President of Sales, North America
Gresham Technologies has appointed Dan Kennedy as senior vice president of sales, North America as part of the company's continued expansion in the market. Based out of Gresham's New York office, Kennedy will be responsible for all business development, sales, account management and partnering activities in the region. He joins with than 25 years of experience in enterprise technology solutions, including seven years at Corvil (now part of Pico) as managing director and head of sales, Americas focused on real-time data analytics, cloud, cybersecurity and managed service solutions for financial markets.
Gresham has grown its business in North America from winning its first customer in 2015, to having more than 150 customers in banking and investment management supported by a team of over 60 people on the ground.
Refinitiv CEO, David Craig, and other members of the company's executive leadership team will join the future London Stock Exchange Group executive committee, subject to completion of the acquisition of Refinitiv by LSEG. Craig will join LSEG's executive committee post-merger as group head, information services and CEO, Refinitiv. Debra Walton will join the committee as…
David Craig, group head, data and analytics, and CEO at Refinitiv, who led the company through acquisition by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and is part of the integration of the organisations, will leave the group at the end of 2021. In the role of group head, data and analytics, he will be replaced…
Delta Capita, a provider of managed services, technology solutions and consulting, has appointed Oliver White as head of sales with a focus on the company's Karbon end-to-end client lifecycle management (CLM) proposition. White joins Delta Capita from Enveil, where he opened and led the London office for the Washington-based privacy enhancing technology company. Prior to…
Delta Capita, a capital markets consulting, managed services and technology provider, has appointed Steve Hargreaves as head of consulting, UK. The company's mission is to reinvent the financial services value chain, with the role of the consulting business being to create long-term partnerships with financial services clients, design and deliver the change they need, and…
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- Chairman of the International Regulatory Strategy Group
- Vice Chair of Financial Services at KPMG UK
Dr Kay Swinburne, vice chair of financial services at KPMG UK and former vice chair of the European Parliament's Economics and Monetary Affairs Committee, has been named chair of the International Regulatory Strategy Group (IRSG). The role was previously held by former city minister Mark Hoban. The IRSG is focused on promoting regulation that encourages…
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- CDO at Northern Trust Asset Servicing
Duncan Cooper, a data strategy, products and governance expert, has moved on from BNY Mellon to become CDO at Northern Trust Asset Servicing. Cooper joined Northern Trust early this month, having spent two years at BNY Mellon with responsibility for creating and operating the company's OMNI digital services. During his 25-year career in the financial services industry, Cooper has also held senior roles at banks and companies including HSBC, SimCorp and Bloomberg.
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- CEO at NeoXam, Delpla Becomes Non - Executive Chairman
- Formerly Group Managing Director
NeoXam has made a senior leadership promotion with Florent Fabre, formerly group managing director, moving to the role of CEO. Outgoing CEO and NeoXam founder Serge Delpla takes the position of non-executive chairman. Fabre's promotion coincides with a recent 100 million investment agreement between NeoXam and Paris headquartered private equity company Eurazeo, which became the...
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- Senior Vice President With Responsibility
Frank Piraino has joined Xcitek as senior vice president with responsibility for managing client relationships and sales operations for the company's flagship corporate actions software solution in New York. He was previously vice president of global sales operations and marketing for GoldenSource Corp.
Broadridge has appointed Ian Strudwick as general manager and head of APAC as part of its strategy to capitalise on opportunities for business growth in the post-pandemic recovery and demonstrate commitment to the region. Strudwick brings 23 years of experience in the financial services and technology sector to Broadridge and joins from TD Securities, where…
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- Appointed Director of Business Development and Marketing for Standard & Poor
James Price has been appointed director of business development and marketing for Standard & Poor's European Securities Services. Based in London, he reports to Krishna Biltoo, managing director of European data and information and oversees a team of five. Price's main focus will be to raise Standard & Poor's profile in the credit markets. He…
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- Director of Event Operations / MARKETING
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- Chairman of the Federal Reserve System
Tick data management provider iSpheres has hired John Burgos as senior sales engineer. Burgos, with experience in networks, STP and payments systems, was previously with SunGard. He will support New York area clients.
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- Co - Founder and Former CEO of Taskize
John O'Hara, a co-founder and former CEO of Taskize, has extensive banking technology experience, having held senior roles at JPMorgan, Bank of America, RBS International Bank, and BP Energy Trading. The appointments follow a period of rapid expansion for Adaptive Financial Consulting, including key company hires and a significant increase in headcount.
Joseph Arney has joined Xcitek as vice president responsible for supporting sales efforts in the recruitment of securities professionals within financial institutions on a consulting basis. He previously spent 14 years with the DTCC.
Refinitiv has appointed Joseph Mrak as global head of wealth management with a remit to focus on driving technology innovation, developing key regional and global partnerships, expanding global reach and growing value for clients and prospects. Refinitiv's wealth management business supports a number of established and emerging wealth customers, and provides global, regional and emerging… Read More
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- Delta Capita 's New Regional Head of APAC
Capital markets consulting, managed services and technology provider Delta Capita, the financial services division of Prytek, has appointed Julian Chesser as its new Regional Head of APAC, based in Singapore. Chesser will oversee all aspects of the business across the region, contributing to regional strategy development and future business expansion. His addition to the global executive team is expected to utilise his extensive experience in banking, asset management, and service provision to support Delta Capita's growth.
Chesser brings with him over 25 years of experience in the financial markets, including regional and global roles. Before joining Delta Capita, Chesser was the APAC Regional Head and Exco member at OSTTRA, a joint venture between S&P and the CME Group, where he established their post-trade business. Earlier, he held a position as Managing Director at IHS Markit in Singapore, where he led their post-trade business.
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- Appointed Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for Calypso Technology
Ken Byrne has been appointed executive vice president of worldwide field operations for Calypso Technology, a provider of front-to-back-office trading solutions. Based in New York, Byrne will be responsible for global sales and professional services worldwide. His experience includes running his own consulting practice in addition to holding senior roles at Reuters during 13 years…
Kevin Bradshaw, head of enterprise data at Reuters, is expanding his responsibilities to include real-time data. The move is designed to leverage Reuters' strong position in front-office data, as the market moves toward an ‘on-demand' environment, with reference data consumers taking information when they need it rather than waiting for a fixed update time. A…
Larry W. Jones has joined corporate actions firm Xcitek as senior vice president of its product management group, responsible for managing the product roadmap. Although not from a corporate actions background, Jones spent 18 years at HP/Compaq Computer Corp. within its global services division, as well as Integrated Medical Systems International and Adea Solutions. He…
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- Client Marketing Operations Manager
- Marketing Operations Manager
This week's edition of our Meet-the-Team series focuses on our self-proclaimed "Jack-of-all-Trades" Leigh Hill; A-Team Group's Marketing Operations Manager. Nearly six years ago, Leigh joined the team and hasn't looked back! Her working life started out in sales administration, transitioned to a sales and marketing role and from there she caught the marketing bug. Her…
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- Industry Analyst Role for Vendor Side
Tim Lind has left The TowerGroup to join enterprise data management company GoldenSource. In his new role, Lind is senior vice president for product strategy, responsible for strategic planning, market research, competitive intelligence and product positioning. He will report to executive vice president Mark Zill, and will operate from both New York and Boston. Lind…
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- New Managing Director for the US
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- Plan a Co - Founder and Chief Executive
More changes at Cicada. Carole Mahoney, former vice president of European sales at Cicada, has left and taken on an external sales consulting role, working with both Cicada and CounterpartyLink. In this new position, Carole will focus on market intelligence and lead generation activities. Michael Tse has joined Cicada as sales liaison executive, providing pre-sales…
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- Leaves Refinitiv to Head Up SIX Financial Information
Marion Leslie has stepped down from the role of managing director of Refinitiv's Enterprise business and will join SIX as leader of SIX Financial Information and a member of the SIX executive board on January 1, 2020. She will succeed Robert Jeanbart, who has decided to retire at the end of this year. Jeanbart joined…
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- President of Sales, North America
Mark Bannon has joined KX as president of sales, North America, with responsibility for the company's growth in the region. He will partner the North America sales organisation across finance and other industries to meet growing need for ultra-high performance, real-time data analytics. Bannon joins KX from TIBCO and brings a mix of deep industry…
NeoXam has named former SIX Financial Information managing director, Mark Hembury, as head of sales for the DACH - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, and CEE Central and Eastern Europe regions. Hembury held several senior roles across a six-year period at SIX and previously worked at Thomson Reuters, Moody's Investor Services, and Reuters. At NeoXam,…
Markit Group has hired Will Meldrum as director of acquisitions and strategic development, pointing to further acquisitive activity by the credit markets pricing vendor. Meldrum previously worked at Deutsche Bank for four years as director and head of global markets strategic investments. In this role, he was involved in the original sale of the collaborating…
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- Vice President of Marketing and Strategy at Asset Control
Martin Church has retired from Cicada, after seven years with the company, and a total of 32 years in the financial information industry. Church established Cicada's U.K. and European operation in 2000 and served as a board member in other enterprises in the Cicada group of companies. He will continue to serve as a special…
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- Head of Product Management
Moody's has named industry veteran Mona Breed as chief information officer (CIO) with effect from October 15, 2018. Breed succeeds Tony Stoupas, who has led Moody's IT organisation as CIO since 2010 and will remain with the company until the end of 2018. As CIO, Breed will lead Moody's global technology infrastructure and programmes, and… Read More
Nathan Wolaver has returned to Asset Control as managing director of the company's Americas business after a three-year stint as global head of data management solutions at Broadridge. Based in Asset Control's New York office, Wolaver is responsible for all aspects of the company's business operations across the Americas, including sales, customer support and professional…
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- Head of Product Management at Asset Control
Neil Sandle, head of product management at Asset Control, says d-fine's expertise in financial analytics and business expertise complements Asset Control's Ops360 end-to-end mastering platform, its data lineage capability and its ACX market data warehouse solution, to provide analytics and derived pricing capabilities.
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- Marketing Operations & Event Manager
Niresh Rajah, currently managing director and head of the digital, data and RegTech practice at Grant Thornton in the UK, will join Danske Bank as CDO and a member of the technology and services leadership team with effect from 17 April 2023. Rajah will work with Danske Bank COO and member of the executive leadership…
OpenCorporates, provider of a large open database of companies worldwide, has named former Teradata CEO Oliver Ratzesberger as the first chair of its board. OpenCorporates has grown rapidly in the past nine years with its White Box company data attracting millions of visitors to its website every month. Users include financial institutions, government agencies and…
Capco has named Padma Parthasarathy as country manager in India, based in Bangalore, and reporting to partner and executive vice president, business process outsourcing and sourcing development Gopi Chelliah who joined a few months ago (Reference Data Review, March 2005). Parthasarathy will be responsible for developing Capco's relationships with India's banking sector as well as…
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- Executive Vice President at DST International
Pamela Pecs Cytron has left her role as executive vice president at DST International, a role she joined just last year. Prior to DST International, Pecs Cytron was at SunGard's Front Capital Systems as managing director of the Americas, and senior vice president, sales and general manager, North America for Netik.
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- GoldenSource As Vice President EMEA Sales and Marketing
Pat Dolan has joined GoldenSource as vice president EMEA sales and marketing. Here he will report directly to chief executive officer Mike Meriton. Dolan was previously global head of sales at Strategic Communications Software, and has previously worked at Cognotec, Dow Jones and Standard & Poor's.
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- Formerly Head of Content and News at Reuters
Paul Kennedy, formerly head of content and news at Reuters, and Peter Leichsenring, previously director alliances and channels financial services at Tibco Software, have both joined the recently renamed GoldenSource (known before as Financial Technologies Inc. FTI). Both join in newly created roles. Kennedy has been named vice president of product management based in London….
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- Director Alliances and Channels Financial Services at Tibco Software
Transaction Lifecycle Management specialist SmartStream lost a leading light in December with the departure of data guru Peter Moss as CEO of SmartStream RDU, a reference data specialist co-founded back in 2016 with buy-in from Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Morgan Stanley. Now a wholly-owned subsidiary of SmartStream, the reference data utility (RDU) was created…
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- Joins Element22 As Advisory Partner
Peter Serenita, one of the first global CDOs in financial services, and chairman of the EDM Council's board of directors, has joined Element22, a provider of data, data management and analytics solutions and consulting services, as an advisory partner. His role will include collaborating with Element22's clients on a variety of projects using his knowledge…
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- Chief Information Officer
Refinitiv has promoted Phil Wellard from chief technology officer (CTO) to the broader role of chief information officer (CIO). In his new role, Wellard leads Refinitiv's enterprise technology and cyber security organisation, which comprises a team of about 5,000 staff and strategic partners, and develops, operates and secures all Refinitiv products, infrastructure and technology. He… Read More
Goldensource has hired Gert Raeves as vice president of business solutions, based in London. Raeves was previously with CheckFree Heliograph in a product marketing role, as well as with Swift and JP Morgan in various roles. At GoldenSource, Raeves will report to Mark Zill, executive vice president of global software operations.
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- Senior Conference Producer
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- Sales Manager at Telekurs Financial
Reto Baumann, long standing sales manager at Telekurs Financial is leaving the company to "explore new opportunities abroad". Meanwhile, Edward Busk has returned to Telekurs Financial as part of the London sales team focused primarily on third-party relationships. He previously worked with Telekurs in sales between 1993 and 1999, before leaving to join Reuters as…
Gresham Technologies has named Rob McGowan as senior sales executive in North America as the company expands in the region following its June 2021 acquisition of Electra Information Systems. McGowan joined Gresham in the first quarter of this year and is based in the company's New York office. He joined from Duco, and previously held…
Roberto Rivero has left the London Stock Exchange where he was responsible for new initiatives, most noteworthy of which was the exchange's acquisition of Proquote, the exchange's stockbrokerage information systems unit. Rivero was previously at Royalblue and before that Primark.
Kingland has named Ron Jordan as senior vice president, strategic accounts and partnerships. Jordan joins the Kingland executive team with more than 30 years of experience in the financial industry where he has worked with organisations including DTCC and NYSE. He has also served four years as a member of the Financial Research Advisory Committee… Read More
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- Managing Principal and Head of Global Marketing at Capco, Has Left the Company to Join Citigroup in an Undisclosed Role
Samuel Wang, managing principal and head of global marketing at Capco, has left the company to join Citigroup in an undisclosed role.
Thomson Financial has selected COO Sharon Rowlands to succeed Dave Shaffer as chief executive. Rowlands, who joined Thomson Financial from FT Information - now FT Interactive Data - retains the role of president. Shaffer, who has been CEO since 2002, moves back to Thomson corporate, continuing to report to Richard J. Harrington, president and chief…
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- Extends Remit With Role of Managing Director at BCC Group
- Founder of Financial
Sheena Clark, founder of Financial Machineries, has extended her remit by partnering BCC Group and becoming UK managing director of the company. At BCC, Clark is responsible for all global client activities around the group's ONE Solution financial data enterprise platform and its market data cloud solutions. She will use her extensive market knowledge and…
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- Senior Advisor and Head of Division at the Bank of England
Sholthana Begum, senior advisor and head of division at the Bank of England, and a popular A-Team Group Summit speaker, has left the bank after a 16-year career. Moving on, she will join the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as head of the data and data strategy department. Begum joined the Bank of England in 2006…
Nielen was most recently sales director at risk and analytics specialist Axioma Inc., which is now part of Deutsche Boerse's Qontigo group. Before that he spent eight years at MSCI focusing on buy-side engagements. Asset Control says his appointment will allow the company "to more specifically focus on the requirements of its buy-side customers around self-controlled data sourcing, mastering, derivation and integration across the investment decision processes."
Broadridge has appointed Stephan Müller as managing director for Germany. Based in Frankfurt, Müller will join Broadridge's international leadership team and will be responsible for leading and growing Broadridge's overall business in Germany across all solution lines in its global technology and operations portfolio, and its investor communication solutions. He will also manage Broadridge's Payments-as-a-Service…
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- Head of UK Data Management at UBS
Stuart Levy has become head of UK data management at UBS based in London. He replaces Steven Birch who has moved to become head of data management at Schroder Global Asset Management, also in London.
Stuart Shipperlee is rejoining Standard & Poor's as its new European managing director for the Risk Solutions division, based in London. Shipperlee, who will report to Gary Kearns, global leader for Credit Risk Services, was previously managing director of European operations for U.S. insurance ratings agency AM Best, and before that spent 10 years at…
SunGard Data Management Solutions has named Ariel Aloni to lead design and direction of its technology strategy. Aloni was previously chief architect at Electronic Broking Services (EBS), an electronic interdealer broker in the foreign exchange marketplace. Before joining EBS, Aloni was director of data messaging at Merrill Lynch.
GoldenSource has appointed Swati Tyagi as chief product officer based in New York, leading the product team, and overseeing product strategy. She will also join the management team with her experience of integrating applications brought together by acquisition an important factor as GoldenSource looks to incorporate acquisitions into its growth strategy. Tyagi joins GoldenSource from…
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- Joins SmartStream RDU As Product Manager
- SmartStream RDU As Product Manager
Tim Fox has joined SmartStream RDU as product manager with responsibility to evaluate industry requirements and make recommendations on the development of new and existing products. He will also steer the business strategy behind each product, help to gather business requirements and launch new products and industry collaborations. With over 25 years' experience working in…
Tim Lind has left The TowerGroup to join enterprise data management company GoldenSource. In his new role, Lind is senior vice president for product strategy, responsible for strategic planning, market research, competitive intelligence and product positioning. He will report to executive vice president Mark Zill, and will operate from both New York and Boston. Lind…
Tim Mohin, chief executive of data provider Persefoni, is among the sustainability-linked financial figures selected to help shape the UK's regulatory response to ESG issues. The former Global Reporting Initiative chief will be joined by five other executives on the Financial Conduct Authority's ESG Advisory Board. They include Harald Walkate, senior fellow at the Center for…
Tom Raptis, a former senior consultant at Refinitiv and previously with Thomson Reuters for seven years, has joined Reformis, a business and technology consultancy for the buy-side that specialises in data management, trading platform optimisation, and regulatory and client reporting. Raptis joined Reformis today as a senior consultant based in London. He brings data management…
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- Senior Executives to Support Growth
Volante Technologies, a provider of technology and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to accelerate digital transformation and payments modernisation has made two senior strategic hires to drive continued growth of the company. Executive in residence and non-executive board director Harp Grewal has been appointed chief operating officer (COO) with responsibility for managing and delivering company growth. Deepak Gupta,…
Clearwater Analytics, an SaaS solution for investment data aggregation, reconciliation, accounting, and reporting, has appointed Warren Barkley as Chief Technology Officer. Barkley was formerly General Manager in the AWS Machine Learning Group at Amazon and has held roles at Microsoft and SMART Technologies, as well as holding over 60 worldwide patents in networking, wireless, communications,…
Xcitek has appointed Neil Sheppard as chief operating officer with responsibility for managing the company's corporate actions software XSP in Europe, in support of the European growth strategy. Prior to joining Xcitek, Sheppard has held a variety of project management, product and business development roles in corporate actions at Magenta One, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Dresdner…
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- Audience and Membership Manager