People Moves: Acin, NeoXam, BNY Mellon, Northern Trust, and more

Acin appoints former StanChart exec Tracy Clarke non-executive director and strategic consultant

Acin, a provider of operational risk controls, has announced the appointment of Tracy Clarke as a non-executive director and strategic consultant. Clarke will join Acin in the drive to equip firms to quantify and calibrate their operational risk controls across their businesses.

Clarke’s career in financial services has spanned more than 30 years, working across corporate, institutional and private banking on critical business issues including compliance, financial crime, corporate affairs, culture, and climate change. Clarke previously held a range of senior executive positions at Standard Chartered Bank, where she was CEO of its private bank chief executive officer and regional CEO for Europe & Americas .

Her prior roles also include non-executive director at Sky and Inmarsat, director of Zodia Holdings, supervisory board chair at Standard Chartered AG and director and audit & risk committee member at TheCityUK. Clarke is currently a non-executive director at Starling Bank, TP ICAP and the All England Netball Association.

Mark Hembury joins NeoXam as head of sales for DACH and CEE regions

Data management software vendor NeoXam has hired former SIX Financial Information managing director Mark Hembury as head of sales for the Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein (DACH) and Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) regions. Reporting to the general manager of the DACH and CEE region Philipp Sfeir, Hembury will be responsible for accelerating new business growth across NeoXam’s product suite as well as helping develop existing client relationships.

Hembury held several senior roles across a six-year period at SIX, including global head of sales and account management, head of global sales operations and head of strategic account management. Before that, he held senior sales roles including global business director and MD for Germany in the German-speaking region at Thomson Reuters and previously at Reuters, separated by a two-year stint as VP of business development for the Emea region at Moody’s Investor Services.

Hembury, who started his new position in April, is based in NeoXam’s Zürich office.

BNY Mellon appoints Alejandro Perez as COO for global market infrastructure

BNY Mellon has hired Alejandro Perez as the first chief operating officer for global market infrastructure. Perez will work closely with Robin Vince, vice chair and chief executive officer of global market infrastructure, and the leaders across BNY Mellon’s GMI businesses (clearance & collateral management, treasury services, markets and execution services and Pershing) to help maximize opportunities for closer collaboration and product integration.

Perez was most recently head of professional services at no-code enterprise application developer Unqork, prior to which he was CEO of Bloomberg Data Reporting Services, and also served as the CEO of the vendor’s RegTek solutions business, and as global head of post-trade solutions. Before that, he spent almost 13 years at Goldman Sachs, including as managing director.

Perez started at BNY Mellon on June 1, and reports directly to New York-based Robin Vince, who joined the custodian last year after 26 years in senior roles at Goldman Sachs.

Northern Trust appoints Caroline Higgins and Iain Carey to top roles in Asia offices

Northern Trust has named Caroline Higgins head of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and Iain Carey head of global funds services in Asia.

Based in Hong Kong, Higgins will report to Angelo Calvitto, newly named head of Asia-Pacific at Northern Trust. She will oversee Northern Trust’s asset servicing business activities across the three markets and assume executive management responsibilities for Northern Trust’s Hong Kong office.

Iain Carey will report to Higgins and oversee client services and the offering of Northern Trust’s fund administration solutions to clients across the region.

Prior to joining Northern Trust in 2016, Higgins held several senior leadership and client management positions at Brown Brothers Harriman, State Street, and UBS. Carey was most recently head of hedge fund services for Asia-Pacific and has worked at Northern Trust since 2010. Before joining Northern Trust, he worked for an independent financial adviser in Australia.

State Street taps vets Wong, Chen to head HK and Taiwan

State Street has appointed Pauline Wong as head of the Hong Kong special administrative region and Ilona Chen as head of Taiwan. These newly created roles will report to Mostapha Tahiri, CEO of State Street in Asia Pacific.

Based in Hong Kong and Taipei, respectively, Wong and Chen will be responsible for leading and executing State Street’s enterprise-wide business strategy, developing talent, and managing relationships with local government officials and regulators in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Wong and Chen will oversee all State Street’s businesses in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Wong joined State Street in 2011 and was most recently Asia-Pacific lead for the firm’s client program office. She has more than 20 years of experience in financial services. Before joining State Street, she worked in various positions at HSBC in trustee services, private banking and securities services covering the Asia region.

Chen joined State Street in 1993 and helped establish the firm’s asset servicing business in Taipei in 1995. Her most recent role was head of Institutional Services for Greater China.