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Cicada Continues Sales Team Expansion in Europe, U.S.

Cicada is continuing to expand its sales team, hiring Steve Rosenburg as director, America sales, Eija Hietavuo as European sales director, and Bruce Hawkins as business consultant, managing pre- and post-sales support efforts. Rosenburg was previously with Reuters’ Enterprise Information Products Solutions group, and held senior sales roles at Bridge. At Cicada, he will report...

Standard & Poor’s Bolsters European Securities Evaluations Team

Standard & Poor’s has bolstered its European Securities Evaluations group with the addition of two senior managers to the team. Annabel Saunders is named associate director, and Ciro Incarico is named director of fixed income evaluations sales in the group. Saunders has previously worked at Reuters and FT Interactive Data, where she had been responsible...

Capco Names Parthasarathy as Country Manager, India

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...

Xcitek Hires Jones for Product Management Group; Gyngell in Europe

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...

Markit Establishes Tokyo Office, Led by Mizutani

Markit Group has hired Katsumi Mizutani to head the company’s new Tokyo office and manage business development in Japan. He joins from TD Securities, where he was managing director and head of credit derivative structuring and customised solutions in Tokyo. Prior to that, he was at Deutsche Bank in the capital markets team. Also joining...

Reuters Taps Barnes for Enterprise Information Marketing Role

Reuters has named Ken Barnes marketing director, Americas, for enterprise information products. Based in New York, Barnes will manage campaigns for the DataScope and real-time data feed products. Barnes previously led research and development initiatives with Reuters’ Innovation Program, and managed the Reuters strategic technology alliances. Before that, he managed data feed marketing for Bridge...

FT Interactive Data Adds Younge in Business Development for Ireland

FT Interactive Data has appointed Sandra Younge as business development manager for Ireland, based in Dublin. She was previously international business manager at MoneyMate, an Irish investment and fund data provider. FT Interactive maintains more than 100 staff in its Dublin office.

Thomson Financial Names Rowlands CEO

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...

GoldenSource Hires Zill From CheckFree

GoldenSource – formerly known as Financial Technologies Inc (FTI) – has hired Mark Zill as executive vice president, with responsibilities including leadership and development of software operations for product management and development, customer care and international operations. Zill, based in New York. was previously with CheckFree Financial and Compliance Solutions through its acquisition of HelioGraph...

Perry Moves on From BearingPoint

After a brief stint at BearingPoint, Derek Perry has left to pursue other opportunities. Perry joined BearingPoint last year from Capco where he worked on reference data services.