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Following five years of service, Rick Baff left his post at Dow Jones Telerate Sept. 30. During his tenure as vice president of product management at that vendor, Baff reported directly to executive vice president Julian Childs. While Baff could not be reached for comment, a source close to him says that he is striking out on his own to start up a new business. Baff at one time held the title of assistant to Childs. Following a reorganization several months ago (IMD, Dec. 6, 1993), he and Childs took on oversight of some of the direct staff reports of Telerate vice president Debra Walton-Collings; the reorg disbanded the vendor's international marketing group, shifting it primarily into regional marketing units under Childs.

At Star Data Systems Inc., a Canadian retail quote system vendor, two principal architects, David Grenier and Donald Kennedy, recently left. In other developments at Star Data, John Willem arrived Oct. 3 to assume the post of vice president of marketing and product development. Willem had previously been vice president of product development at Telerate.

Deutsche Bank North America has hired two new executives who will likely have a major impact on the firm's market data usage. The bank hired an information technology head and an operations chief to replace J.J. Sendelbach, the executive who previously oversaw both areas. Overseeing I.T. for the bank will be Stuart Sugarman, a former vice president of trading systems technology at Salomon Brothers Inc. Sal Ricca, formerly with National Securities Clearing Corp., has stepped into the position of New York-based managing director in charge of operations. These shifts come at a time when the bank is looking to further deploy the so- called Market Data Infonet digital data distribution platform it jointly developed with Reuters some two years ago (Trading Systems Technology, May 4, 1992).

Sun Microsystems Inc. -- the predominant vendor of Unix hardware in support of Wall Street's trading room data distribution systems -- relocated Serge Dugas to Singapore and hired one-time EJV Partners exec Jill Rubin to replace him. Dugas, who had been Sun's marketing manager of financial services for the capital markets area, is now sales manager for financial services for Sun's so-called Asean territory. Rubin, who filled Dugas' vacated post in September, was previously vice president of marketing and product planning at the EJV.

Risk management system vendor C.ats Software Inc. has named Sharon Gregory its new managing director of North America. Based in New York, Gregory will be responsible for all sales and client services in the U.S. and Canada for C.ats. Gregory was previously vice president of marketing and business development at systems integrator Micrognosis' U.S. headquarters in Danbury, Conn. She had been at Micrognosis since 1991.

The Securities Industry Automation Corp., a subsidiary of the New York and American Stock Exchanges, is seeking to fill a number of positions, according to assistant staffing director Beverlin Green. The company is looking for programmers, programmer/analysts, software engineers, database analysts, and communications analysts/technicians.

Also currently looking to fill various positions is ILX Systems Inc., according to ILX technical recruiter Lauren Frizziola. Says Frizziola: "Due to our expanding client base and development environment, we currently are adding to staff across the lines." Frizziola said systems and support positions ranging from entry to senior levels are available at ILX.

Bloomberg is soliciting applicants to fill positions in its research and development department. According to a recent help-wanted ad in the New York Times, Bloomberg is seeking a relational database programmer, a systems engineer, a systems programmer, an application programmer and a Unix communication programmer.

In another Times ad, Reuters' information technology unit sought professionals with computer science or related degrees to staff its Stamford, Conn. location. The following positions are available: project leader, programmer analyst/senior programmer analyst, senior programmer/analysts-data, development quality analyst and technical specialist-data.

Touting a brokerage services division that processes more than 20 percent of all New York Stock Exchange trades, ADP is currently advertising for CICS/Cobol II experts as well as strong assembler programmers and Cobol and Rexx specialists working under VM.

Quick America Corp. is seeking account executives to introduce several product lines in the New York metropolitan area, according to an ad in the Times. Those hired will also be expected to represent Quick America's existing Asian product lines.