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André Helfenstein Joins the Board of Directors of SIX
Shareholders at SIX’s AGM yesterday elected André Helfenstein to the Board of Directors. He becomes the representative of Credit Suisse with immediate effect, replacing Thomas Gottstein. The 53-year-old Swiss and British citizen is CEO of Credit Suisse (Switzerland) and a member of the Executive Board of Credit Suisse Group, responsible for the bank’s entire Swiss business. He has been with the bank for over 12 years, holding various management positions in different areas of the private clients business as well as in the corporate and institutional clients business. Before joining Credit Suisse he spent over 10 years with Boston Consulting Group. He is also a member of the Boards of Directors of Neue Aargauer Bank and Venture Incubator.
BTON Financial Makes Two Strategic Hires
BTON Financial, an automated outsourced trading desk for asset managers, has appointed txo new strategic hires to meet the growing demand for its services. Charles Phan, an experienced hedge fund CTO, quant strategist and trader joins as Chief Technology Officer to drive the firm’s technology strategy and delivery; while Caroline Holmes, a regulatory expert and change management specialist with extensive asset management experience, joins as Head of Business Development to act as a conduit between clients, technology and sales teams to support swift onboarding for asset managers.
OpenFin Hires Adrian Crockett as Chief Product Officer
OpenFin, an operating system (OS) provider deploying around 1,200 desktop applications to both buy and sell-side firm, has hired Adrian Crockett as Chief Product Officer. Crockett is the co-founder and former CEO of Pellucid Analytics, an integrated platform that streamlines the creation of investment banking pitch books. Prior to that, Crockett headed investment banking strats groups at Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch. As Chief Product Officer, Crockett will work with OpenFin’s client base to build the financial industry’s app infrastructure.
Richard Hills Joins big xyt
big xyt, an independent provider of market data analytics, has hired Richard Hills as Head of Client Engagement. Working alongside Mark Montgomery, Head of Strategy and Business Development, Hills will help to drive client innovation using a partnership engagement model. He will be responsible for promoting client awareness of big xyt’s products and services, and help them to integrate big xyt’s technology into their daily workflow. Hills joins from Société Générale, where he launched and built the equities electronic trading business, going on to become Global Co-Head of Cash Equities Execution encompassing electronic, program trading and high touch execution.
Eventus Systems Hires Roger Chandler to Build European Presence
Texas-based trade surveillance and market risk software platform provider Eventus Systems has hired Roger Chandler as Senior Sales Engineer for Europe, based in London. Reporting to Scott Schroeder, Eventus Global Head of Sales, Chandler will be responsible for servicing existing clients and driving the firm’s growth in the EMEA region. He was most recently Technology Sales Manager for Bloomberg out of London, responsible for EMEA enterprise technical sales for global multi-asset sell-side clients, prior to which he spent nearly 11 years at Fidessa. This is the third key hire for Eventus following its $10.5 million Series A funding round last month, with Eric Einfalt recently joining as Chief Strategy Officer and David Mitchell as Regional Sales Executive, North America, both out of Chicago.
Tim Macek Joins Sterling Trading Tech
Sterling Trading Tech (STT) has appointed Tim Macek as the Director of Technical Operations and Infrastructure. Macek previously served in several senior management positions at UBS, where he led cross-functional teams of developers and IT specialists and oversaw all of UBS Asset Management’s trading technology and networking systems. He will assume day-to-day leadership of the technical operations team and will be responsible for deploying and managing the technical operations of all current and future STT technology.
Itiviti Names Josh Monroe as Head of Americas
Itiviti has appointed Josh Monroe as managing director, head of Americas region. An accomplished sales executive and sales coach with more than 15 years of financial industry experience, Monroe joins Itiviti from Ned Davis Research, where he was global head of sales. He started his career at Morgan Stanley before joining SAC Capital Advisors where he was a VP in the global macro business. Monroe also has prior sales management experience from senior positions with FIS and SunGard. He will be part of Itiviti’s executive management team, reporting to CEO Rob Mackay.
SteelEye Appoints Rob Bernstein as Chief Financial Officer
Compliance technology and data analytics firm SteelEye has confirmed the hire of Rob Bernstein as its new CFO. He joins from RegTek Solutions, which was acquired by Bloomberg in August 2019, where he was CFO since February 2018. Bernstein has more than 10 years’ experience as a finance executive, formerly with London-based tech firm TIM Group, where he held the position of CFO for seven years. In his new position he will lead SteelEye’s financial operations, reporting directly to CEO Matt Smith.
CloudMargin Promotes Armando Hernandez to Expand Presence in North America
London-based CloudMargin, provider of a collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, has promoted Armando Hernandez to the new role of executive director, head of North America. Hernandez joined CloudMargin in September 2018 as director of new business development for North America. In his new role, reporting to CEO Stuart Connolly, Hernandez takes responsibility for the entire North American operating unit, including sales, relationship management, partnerships and client onboarding. He will also join the executive leadership team, heading up the company’s push into North America where it established a presence less than four years ago.
LiquidityBook Adds to EMEA Client Service Team
LiquidityBook, a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) trading solutions, has named two London-based hires for its EMEA client service team. James Pearson joins from Schneider Trading Associates, where he most recently served as head of IT and takes on the role of technical implementation analyst; while Abdullah Al Nasiri joins from Fidessa to serve as a client services analyst. The hires have been made as LiquidityBook sees an increasing number of fund managers abandoning legacy technology in favour of web-based systems such as its own.