People Moves: Alpima, Santander UK, Tradeweb, SS&C, SmartStream, Numerix, and more

Alpima appoints Karen Tierney as chief product officer 

Alpima, a SaaS platform for investment management and product design, has appointed Karen Tierney as chief product officer. 

Tierney joins Alpima from DWS, where she was responsible for managing the 2020 Ibor transition initiative for the global alternatives businesses, and supporting environmental, social and governance regulatory initiatives for alternatives. 

Tierney previously held roles at the Royal Bank of Scotland as a program manager for digital and engineering services, Barclays, Deloitte, and The National Bank of New Zealand.

Santander UK announces senior technology appointments

Santander UK announced the appointment of Graham Calder as interim chief information officer and Daryl Brookes as director of IT operations and service delivery.

Calder will lead the delivery and development of Santander UK’s technology strategy and IT transformation plan. Brookes will report to Calder and focus on delivering IT service provision and performance across all areas of the bank. 

Calder has held senior technology roles, including as group CIO at Ladbrokes Coral group and CTO for Pearson PLC. He is a non-executive director at NubeGo, a specialist UK cloud consultancy.

Brookes joins from Metro Bank where he was interim cloud CIO and director of IT operations and service delivery. Brookes brings over three decades of experience in senior IT roles, including positions at Nationwide where he led technology operations and service management for over five years, and before that at Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group, and Zurich.

Carlos Selonke, Santander UK’s current chief information technology officer, has been appointed to a new role as head of core banking migration. 

Calder and Selonke will both report to Iain Plunkett, chief operating officer, as part of his redesigned technology, transformation and operations division.

Tradeweb Markets makes appointment to board of directors

Tradeweb Markets, a global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities, and money markets, announced the appointment of Murray Roos to the company’s board of directors effective March 19. He succeeds Debra Walton, who will be stepping down from the Tradeweb board.

Roos is group head of capital markets, London Stock Exchange Group, and a member of the group’s executive committee. Prior to joining LSEG in 2020, Roos was global co-head of equities at Citigroup and previously led the bank’s multi-asset structuring group. He joined Citi in 2015 from Deutsche Bank, where he held a number of management and trading roles, and prior to that, he was a trader at UBS.

Roos earned a BSc in Engineering (Chemical) from the University of Cape Town.

SS&C appoints head of new intelligent automation solutions group

SS&C Technologies Holdings announced that Gautam Moorjani has joined SS&C to lead its intelligent automation solutions group. He will report to Mike Sleightholme, senior vice president and general manager.

The newly-formed group will focus on helping clients with their digital transformation journeys using technologies such as workflow management, machine learning, natural language processing, and robotic process automation.

Moorjani joins from PwC, where he served as a principal and leader for intelligent automation in the financial services advisory practice. Before PwC, Moorjani was COO at WorkFusion, a machine learning, and process automation platform. Prior to WorkFusion Moorjani spent time implementing solutions for Financial Services clients at Markit, JPMorgan, and ARGO Data Resource.

SmartStream hires global head of business development

SmartStream Technologies has announced the appointment of Neil Sheppard as global head of business development for transaction lifecycle management corporate actions solutions and services.

Sheppard will focus on expanding the firm’s presence in the asset servicing sector. Bringing over 30 years of experience, he will help to accelerate the business’ growth strategy. Sheppard’s recent fintech experience was as managing director at FIS’ XSP where he handled the Sungard acquisition in 2012.

Prior to that he was product and business development director at Magenta One Ltd. Other significant roles include: UBS, Morgan Stanley and managed global corporate action departments at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, ABN Amro Equities, and Citibank.

SteelEye hires Adrien Vigier as pre-sales specialist

Adrien Vigier has joined SteelEye as a pre-sales specialist. Vigier will be responsible for liaising with customers and prospects to understand and clarify their challenges, build the next generation of regulatory products, and help firms comply with financial market regulations globally.

A 10-year Bloomberg veteran, he was previously acting as product owner in the transaction cost analysis, best execution, and market abuse product team. Prior to this, Vigier spent most of his career in client-facing roles, in sales, project management, and people management.

Numerix announces executive leadership promotions

Numerix, a provider of risk technology, announced the promotions of three top executives on the Numerix leadership team. Diane Redvanly, Bill Humphrey, and Pulak Rishi have been promoted to new roles within the company.

Redvanly, CFO since 2018, has been elevated to executive vice president, CFO of Numerix.

Humphrey has been promoted to chief technology officer of Numerix. In his previous role, he worked as chief software architect and head of the Platform Group within the development organization. In his new role, he will be focused on future development goals including the evolution of Numerix’s cloud-native solutions and building out the company’s SaaS and RaaS offerings. 

Rishi has been promoted to chief software architect of Numerix. He will now oversee the design and architecture of Numerix’s various modules, establish the evolutionary path towards a cloud-native product offering and ensure a sound technical foundation for evolving business demands.

Morningstar taps ex-CME data exec McElligott

Chicago-based data and research provider Morningstar has hired Brian McElligott as head of product strategy for data products. His role will involve creating new content and distribution technology solutions for clients, and enhancing its existing offerings.

McElligott was previously managing director and head of data strategy at Tradeweb, prior to which he ran his own data management consulting firm, BJM Data Management. Before that, he spent 14 years at CME Group, including as managing director and global head of information products, analytics and market data.

He reports to Scott Burns.

Capco names new partner within US digital engineering practice

Capco, a technology and management consultancy, has appointed Teuta Naghshineh as a new partner in its US digital engineering practice, based out of Los Angeles.

With over 15 years of global consulting and technology transformation experience within financial services, Naghshineh joins Capco from global consultancy Slalom Consulting, where as a client service partner she helped launch the firm’s Los Angeles fintech practice focusing on banking, capital markets and asset management. She has also held roles at PwC, where she worked as a director and manager in its financial advisory practice. Prior to PwC, Naghshineh worked at Diamond Management and Technology Consultants and BNY Mellon.

Canoe expands Europe, Middle East and Africa presence with senior hire

Canoe Intelligence, a financial technology company focused on reimagining data management processes for alternative investors, wealth managers, asset servicing firms, and capital allocators, announced it has expanded its Emea presence with new clients, a new London office, and the hire of Toby Bailey as Vice President of Sales, Emea.

Bailey, who has joined Canoe’s growing team in its new London-based office, will be responsible for leading Canoe’s go-to-market strategy, building partnerships, and driving revenue growth in the region. Bailey will spearhead the company’s business strategy to expand Canoe’s reach into new and existing markets.

Bailey has over 12 years of experience in sales and sales leadership at private markets software and data businesses. He began his career at the Mergermarket Group where he helped launch and grow the company’s M&A platform, MergerID, which was ultimately acquired by Intralinks. Bailey was the third hire for iLEVEL in Europe, where he contributed to establishing iLEVEL as the dominant portfolio monitoring software for private capital GPs and LPs. He was with the business through its acquisitions by both Ipreo and IHS Markit. Most recently, Mr. Bailey opened the UK office for CEPRES where he successfully established a team and grew its client base of European institutional investors.

LiquidityBook appoints managing director

LiquidityBook, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, announced that Stephanie Minister has joined the firm as managing director of connectivity services. In this role, she will lead a newly created arm of the LiquidityBook corporate structure.

Minister will spearhead business development efforts for LBX Connect, LiquidityBook’s proprietary managed FIX network. 

Minister spent the past 15 years as a project manager for global trading integration at ITG and, following its acquisition in 2019, Virtu Financial. Before that, she held senior sales roles at Instinet, Boston Stock Exchange and Bridge Information Systems. An industry veteran, she serves as a governor for the Security Traders Association and is a past president of Boston STA. She holds a BS in CIS and Finance from Manhattan College and an MS in Administration from Boston College.

Datasynthesis hires head of EMEA

Datasynthesis, data quality management platform provider, announced that it has recruited Brian Sentance as head of Emea. Sentance’s appointment marks a step in the expansion of Datasynthesis, extending its reach beyond its origins in the North American market with its new London office. Datasynthesis, formed in 2018 in New York, is a relatively recent entrant to the market with its cloud-native data quality management platform.

Sentance is the ex-CEO of Xenomorph and has over 30 years of experience of data and analytics technology within financial markets. At Datasynthesis he joins the leadership team of Christian Robertson, CEO, and Vlad Agranov, chief product officer, who previously worked at Paladyne Systems and Broadridge respectively.