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Opensee Names Emmanuel Richard as Chief Growth Officer and MD of North American Operations
Opensee, a provider of data access and real-time analytics to financial institutions, has appointed Emmanuel Richard as Chief Growth Officer and Managing Director of North American operations. Richard brings over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, having held roles at Rimini Street and MicroStrategy. He will work alongside Rodrigo Medgenberg, VP of Sales, to accelerate Opensee’s go-to-market strategy.
Opensee aims to help financial institutions unlock valuable business and risk intelligence from vast data sets. With Richard’s appointment, the firm is also confirming its strategy to invest in partnerships as a key growth driver, leveraging its open API architecture to enable integrators to deliver bespoke solutions across the financial industry.
Clearwater Analytics Appoints First Chief Revenue Officer and Bolsters European Leadership
Clearwater Analytics, the SaaS-based investment management, accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions provider, has announced the appointment of Scott Erickson as the company’s first Chief Revenue Officer. Erickson will oversee Clearwater’s sales efforts in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and will work to continue expanding the company’s market share across all regions. With 18 years of experience driving growth at Clearwater, Erickson has held roles in services, product strategy, and sales.
To strengthen its European leadership team, the company has relocated Brian Slattery, who led Clearwater’s efforts in the North American insurance market, to London, where he will focus on the Northern European market. Josef Sommeregger, a former leader at SimCorp, has been appointed to lead the DACH region, joining Thomas van Cauwelaert, regional head for France, and Sai Perry, Head of Solutions across Europe. This team will report directly to Erickson.
Torstone Hires Sam Farrell as Head of North America
Torstone Technology, the SaaS platform for post-trade securities and derivatives processing, has appointed Sam Farrell as Head of North America, based in Toronto. He will have oversight of all Torstone’s US and Canadian operations and will be tasked with expanding Torstone’s footprint in North America.
Prior to joining Torstone, Farrell spent the last 35 years in Canadian financial services, having previously worked at RBC, TD Securities, Scotiabank, and most recently at Credit Suisse Canada as a senior operations leader. Over his career, he has led a number of significant initiatives, including the Credit Suisse migration to Torstone’s Cloud Platform.
Avelacom Appoints Timothy Wong as VP of Sales in APAC and Opens Hong Kong Office
Avelacom, the low latency connectivity, IT infrastructure and data solutions provider, has appointed Timothy Wong as VP of Sales for the APAC region. Wong joins from Xenith IG (formerly Superloop Asia) and brings over 15 years of experience working in data and network systems across sales, business development and technology.
In addition, the company has taken on new office space in Hong Kong to support its expansion in the region.
OpenSee Positions for Growth with New Hires in US
OpenSee, the financial data analytics company, has made one global appointment and added three executives in its New York office to drive sales and broaden support for international and domestic clients in the US. Abdul Anwari and Michael Bailleux join as US Sales Directors, reporting to Rodrigo Medgenberg, who was appointed as VP Sales late last year. The company also recruited Stéphane Sesquin as its New York-based Head of Solutions.
The appointments form part of Opensee’s global growth strategy following the company’s €11 million Series A funding round in December.
BMLL Hires Industry Veteran Rob Laible as Head of Americas
Following its recent US$26 million funding round, BMLL, the independent provider of harmonized, historical Level 3 data and analytics, has appointed industry veteran Rob Laible as Head of Americas, with plans to open a New York area-based office. Laible comes with over 30 years’ experience of running global institutional businesses across sales and trading, technology, compliance, risk and operations. Most recently he served as Global Head of Equities at Liquidnet. Earlier in his career, he worked for global organizations such as Macquarie Securities, Nomura, Lehman Brothers and ITG.
Laible will report to Paul Humphrey, BMLL’s CEO, and join the senior leadership team to drive the company’s US expansion.
Pico Appoints Bo Zhou as Head of APAC
Pico, the technology services, software, data and analytics vendor, has named Bo Zhou, Ph.D., as Head of APAC to oversee Pico’s continued growth in the region. Zhou brings more than 15 years of financial markets industry experience and was most recently Partner and Senior Managing Director for IHS Markit (now S&P Global). Previously, she served in various leadership positions at Bloomberg.
As Head of APAC, Zhou will drive Pico’s expansion efforts in Asia Pacific while overseeing all sales, operations and engineering throughout the region, in partnership with key global executives.
Taskize Hires James Pike as Head of Business Development
Taskize, the provider of inter-company workflow to the financial services industry, has announced the appointment of former Morgan Stanley Managing Director James Pike as Head of Business Development. Based in London, Pike brings over 24 years’ worth of industry knowledge and experience across securities and derivatives, having most recently held the role of EMEA Head of Client Operations and Global Head of Institutional Client Services at Morgan Stanley. Prior to that he was Global Co-Head of Equity Operations.
Pike’s role will be to continue the growth of the Taskize network, which has passed over 530 financial institutions, growing from 289 in January 2021.
Appital Appoints Matthew Jefford as Business Development Executive
Appital, the equity markets technology solution vendor, has appointed Matthew Jefford, an experienced equity markets specialist, as Business Development Executive. Jefford will help accelerate Appital’s growth strategy, specifically working with the asset management community to deepen platform liquidity, and support the firm’s mission to bring innovation and automation to equity markets.
Jefford brings over 30 years of experience working in the global financial markets. Prior to joining Appital, he was Electronic Sales Trader at ICAP and previously worked with Liquidnet, Bloomberg Tradebook and Instinet on Sales, Electronic and Automated Trading, covering clients in the EMEA region.
DTCC Appoints Nashira Spencer to Head Security
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure provider, has appointed Nashira Spencer as Chief Security Officer (CSO), responsible for managing DTCC’s enterprise-wide global information security, physical security, employee safety, and crisis/incident management functions. She will report to Tim Cuddihy, DTCC’s Group Chief Risk Officer.
Spencer brings 20 years of leadership and expertise in security management to DTCC, including serving the last 6 years as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and, most recently, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Anywhere Real Estate, a leading provider of U.S. residential real estate services.