People Moves: Douglas Taylor, TD, Xavier Rolet, Guggenheim

Guggenheim Partners Promotes Caban to CIO

Amie Caban has been named chief information officer for Guggenheim Partners. Caban was previously deputy CIO, and she will replace Jim O’Donnell, who is stepping back from his day-to-day operational duties, but will remain on as a senior advisor to help in the transition.

Caban joined Guggenheim in 2010, taking over responsibility for application development over the summer. She’s also served as the firm’s chief information security officer, and has previously held roles related to business continuity, enterprise technology governance, IT project management, and technical infrastructure and architecture.

Most recently, she has been working to “optimize [Guggenheim’s] technology platform and move the organization towards the cloud,” noted Tom Irvin in a press release. Caban will report to Irvin, who serves as chief administrative officer of Guggenheim Services and chairman of the Information Technology Oversight Committee.

Caban also sits on the Steering Committee for Guggenheim’s Women’s Innovation and Inclusion Network (WIIN) and is a member of the firm’s Vendor Diversity Advisory Council.

Burton-Taylor Founder Departs, Sets Up New Consultancy

Douglas Taylor, founder of market data and financial technology research firm Burton-Taylor International Consulting, has left the now TP Icap-owned company to set up a new consulting firm, Douglas B. Taylor International Consulting.

Taylor founded Burton-Taylor in 2006 to provide competitive market research on the data industry. During that time, between 2010 and 2015, he also served as COO of EMIS, Euromoney’s emerging markets information service. Before founding Burton-Taylor, he was managing director of Thomson Financial in Asia-Pacific, and spent one year as manager of partner engagement at Microsoft. Prior to that, he spent more than 15 years in various roles at Reuters, including global director of product management and marketing for the vendor’s news business.

Taylor says his new consultancy will not compete with Burton-Taylor.

Read more about Taylor here: https://www.waterstechnology.com/awards-rankings/4357887/inside-market-data-hall-of-fame-douglas-taylor-the-surveyor

Flynn Trades Morgan Stanley for TD

Market data veteran Ed Flynn has joined TD Ameritrade as head of market data strategy, based in New York. Flynn was previously executive director of global market data sourcing at Morgan Stanley, where he spent almost seven years. Before joining the bank in 2013, he ran his own data sales and training consultancy, The Flynndex Company. He also spent 13 years as a senior director at Fidelity Investments, and nine years as an account manager at Interactive Data.

Xavier Rolet Joins Saudi Stock Exchange’s Board

Former London Stock Exchange Group CEO Xavier Rolet has joined the Saudi Stock Exchange’s board. Rolet, whose departure from the LSEG at the end of 2017 was acrimonious, had served as the exchange operator’s CEO since May 2009. He is currently the CEO of credit-focused hedge fund CQS, joining at the start of 2019.

The Saudi Stock Exchange, also known as Tadawul, has additionally named Mark Makepeace to its board. Makepeace also has roots at the LSEG, where he had served as group director of Information Services, and was the founder of FTSE, later becoming CEO of FTSE Russell.