People Moves: Deutsche Börse, Talos, Gresham, Tradefeedr, and more

Johnston joins Deutsche Börse supervisory board

Deutsche Börse shareholders have elected Shannon Johnston as a shareholder representative to the supervisory board. She succeeds Karl-Heinz Flöther, who has resigned and left the board after 10 years.

Johnston has assumed the chairmanship of the supervisory board’s technology committee. She currently serves as the CTO of Global Payments, where she is responsible for data, analysis, and corporate architecture.

Talos expands team with global hires

Talos, an institutional digital asset trading tech provider, has announced four new key hires: Pamela Lee as head of Asia-Pacific sales, Karan Dalwani as director of customer success for Asia-Pacific, Phillip Beasley-Harling as vice president of engineering for Emea, and Conor Shea as head of marketing and communications.

Lee joins Talos from LMAX Group, where she was head of partnerships and the company’s Asia-Pacific crypto business development lead. Prior to that, she held leadership roles at Credit Suisse across various functions. Lee will oversee all sales operations to drive the growth of Talos’s new and existing business in the Asia-Pacific region.

Dalwani comes to Talos from the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), where he was most recently senior customer success executive at LSEG’s Asia-Pacific data and analytics division. Prior to that, he held roles at Refinitiv, Icici Bank, and FlexTrade. As director of customer success, Dalwani will work to develop initiatives and campaigns to drive revenue and optimize customer use of Talos’s services in the Asia-Pacific region.

Beasley-Harling brings 20 years of capital markets experience, and was most recently managing director at Beasley-Harling Trading. He previously held executive roles at Squarepoint Capital, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America. As vice president of engineering for Emea, Beasley-Harling will coordinate, develop, and oversee all of Talos’s engineering and development activities in the region.

Shea joins Talos having held previous positions as senior vice president of financial communications and capital markets at Edelman and head of US marketing at IG. In his new role as head of marketing and communications, Shea will be responsible for developing, implementing, and monitoring Talos’s global business marketing strategy.

Gresham hires senior sales executive to drive US growth

Gresham Technologies, a provider of reconciliations, banking integration, and cash management solutions, has hired Rob McGowan as senior sales executive in North America as part of the company’s continued expansion in the US and Canada. McGowan is based out of Gresham’s New York office, where he sells the vendor’s entire suite of data, regulatory, and technology solutions to both buy-side and sell-side institutions.

McGowan joins from Duco and has previously held sales roles at SmartStream Technologies and RegTek Solutions.

Ex-UBS exec joins client advisory group at Tradefeedr

Tradefeedr, an independent foreign exchange (FX) data analytics platform, has added Christian Gressel to its client advisory group. Founded to create a forum advising Tradefeedr on product development and alignment with industry-wide needs, the group comprises a mix of liquidity providers, buy-side clients, and industry experts. Gressel joins other advisory group members Tim Cartledge (ex-Nex Group), Richard Turner (Insight Investment), Jeremy Smart (XTX), Ian O’Flaherty (ex-Deutsche Bank), and Michal Marcek (ex-Pimco).

He most recently served as global head of exchange-traded derivatives and FX electronic execution at UBS in London. He previously worked in sales roles at JP Morgan in London and Raiffeisen Zentralbank AG in Austria.

Leader to lead Asia-Pacific operations for Eventus

Eventus, a global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, has named Scott Leader as Asia-Pacific managing director, heading the company’s sales efforts in the Asia-Pacific region.

Leader previously served as executive director of large enterprise for Workday, a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Prior to that role, he was regional vice president of cloud content management and sharing platform Box. He has also held senior-level roles at the Australian Securities Exchange, Nyse Euronext, Bloomberg, SunGard Financial Systems (now FIS), Misys, and Pegasystems.

Reporting to Eventus’s global head of sales Scott Schroeder, Leader is based in Sydney, where he has spent most of his career.

Blue Ocean Technologies announces executive management changes

Blue Ocean Technologies, a capital markets fintech provider in global after hours trading and operator of Blue Ocean ATS, has announced executive management changes. Brian Hyndman will assume the position of CEO, in addition to his role as president. Previous chairman and CEO Ralph Layman has been named non-executive chairman. Previous CTO Matthew Horisk is now chief information officer and has also assumed the role of COO. Co-founder and Blue Ocean ATS managing director Greg Shinnick will be leaving the organization and will remain on the Blue Ocean Technologies board of directors.

In his new role as CEO, Hyndman will lead Blue Ocean Technologies into the next phase of its growth and continue to oversee the organization’s strategy, fundraising, business, and product development. In his expanded new position, Horisk will be responsible for overseeing operations, technology, platform support, and Blue Ocean’s growing data business.

Prometheum appoints Whitestock CSO

Prometheum, the parent company of alternative trading system Prometheum ATS, has announced the appointment of Chris Whitesock as chief security officer (CSO). As CSO at Prometheum, he will oversee the development of policies and programs intended for the mitigation and reduction of compliance, operational, strategic, financial and reputational security risk strategies. He will also ensure Prometheum’s compliance with local, national, and international regulatory environments as it relates to data privacy and protection.

Whitesock joins from Blockchains, where he was vice president of IT and cybersecurity, responsible for building and leading six teams or committees, including application security, security operations, corporate risk teams. He also previously served as senior director of global cybersecurity for Concentrix and led the initial creation and foundation of the company’s global cybersecurity program.