About a-team Marketing Services
The knowledge platform for the financial technology industry

A-Team Insight People

Athena Appoints Scott Loughran as Head of Client Engagement, North America, to Drive Regional Expansion

Subscribe to our newsletter

Athena, the Order Management System (OMS) and Portfolio Management System (PMS) solutions provider, part of United Fintech, has named Scott Loughran as Head of Client Engagement for North America. This appointment supports Athena’s strategic growth in the region, aiming to enhance service quality, streamline implementations, and deliver innovative solutions to hedge funds and asset managers.

Loughran brings extensive experience in fintech and asset management platforms, having held key roles at AlphaDesk and d1g1t, where he led successful client engagement and implementation initiatives. His leadership will focus on scaling Athena’s North American client services and driving platform adoption.

This move follows Athena’s broader expansion strategy in the region, including the Q4 2024 appointment of Abdi Kahiye as Senior Implementation Specialist. With experience from d1g1t, Refinitiv, and AlphaDesk, Kahiye adds further strength to Athena’s implementation capabilities.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Related content

WEBINAR

Recorded Webinar: Step-by-step guide to implementing a data governance framework

Implementing a data governance framework is essential for many financial institutions, but the task is difficult and often complex. The webinar will take a step-by-step approach to implementation considering everything from identifying priority data that must be governed to automating data governance processes, allocating data ownership and responsibility, and sustaining data governance in a dynamic...

BLOG

FRSGlobal Hires Founder of STB Systems and Makes Further Hires in Asia Pacific and Japan

FRSGlobal, part of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, the industry-recognised leader in content-rich solutions for unified global regulatory reporting and risk management, today announced that it has appointed Michael Thomas as Head of Business Development and Operations for North Asia. FRSGlobal has also made a number of additional new hires in the region to boost its...

EVENT

Data Management Summit, New York City

Now in its 17th year, Data Management Summit (DMS) NYC returns in September 2027, to explore how to use data and AI to drive measurable business outcomes - reliably, repeatedly and at scale.

GUIDE

The DORA Implementation Playbook: A Practitioner’s Guide to Demonstrating Resilience Beyond the Deadline

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) has fundamentally reshaped the European Union’s financial regulatory landscape, with its full application beginning on January 17, 2025. This regulation goes beyond traditional risk management, explicitly acknowledging that digital incidents can threaten the stability of the entire financial system. As the deadline has passed, the focus is now shifting...