People Moves: Euronext, RJO, CloudMargin, And More

Euronext Announces New COO

Georges Lauchard will join Euronext as chief operating officer and member of the managing board, based in the firm’s Paris office. In his new role he will oversee the exchange’s operational strategy, policies, and execution.

Lauchard previously spent over 20 years at JP Morgan and was most recently the COO/CFO of their corporate and investment bank technology team. While at the firm he held a number of leadership roles, including head of global front office markets supervision and COO of global currencies and emerging markets trading. Before that, he worked in the emerging markets division at BNP Paribas in New York.

Lauchard holds a degree in economics from Nice University and gained his MSc in management from NEOMA Business School in France.

RJO Bolsters Market Expertise With Industry Veteran

Futures brokerage and clearing firm RJ O’Brien & Associates (RJO), has announced that John H. Porter will be joining the team as a new strategic advisor. Porter will be the lead macro-economic speaker at conferences and will serve on RJO’s investment committee.

Recently, Porter was global head of fixed income and structured finance at AXA Investment Managers, where he managed over $500 billion in assets. Prior to that, he served as a managing director and global head of portfolio and liquidity management at Barclays Capital in London.

Porter served in senior roles at the World Bank in Washington for 10 years, including senior economist and chief investment officer.

He earned a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Paris and also holds BA and MA degrees.

Head of Client Services Joins CloudMargin

Miriam Marascio has been appointed head of client services at CloudMargin, the collateral and margin management solution firm. She will report to the firm’s CEO, Stuart Connolly and will be responsible for the end-to-end care of the firm’s clients. This includes onboarding, support and ongoing relationship management.

Marascio began her career as a cultural mediator in Florence, Italy. She has held previous client services roles before joining CloudMargin including 13 years at Clearstream Banking, a European-based supplier of post-trade infrastructure services. At Clearstream banking she led projects aimed at improving the client experience as well as the departments adoption of new technologies.

First Derivatives Appoints Global Chief Marketing Officer

Global software and consulting company, First Derivatives, has hired Kathy Schneider into the role of chief marketing officer. Schneider will take on the responsibility of the firm’s marketing strategy and brand, which includes demand generation and communications. She will report directly to the CEO, Seamus Keating.

Before joining First Derivatives, Schneider held the same role at Sungard Availability Services. She moved into the technology sector in 1999 when she joined Dell. After spending 15 years at Dell, she worked her way up to executive director global channel marketing and programs.

Magnifi Announces Executive Co-Chairman

Magnifi, an investment search platform for mutual funds, ETFs and model portfolios has announced the appointment of David Pottruck to the role of executive co-chairman. 

In his new role, Pottruck will aim to help identify, structure and execute on strategic partnerships as the business scales.

Pottruck was a former chairman of HighTower Advisors and former CEO of Charles Schwab.

RegTech Vendor Nexus FrontierTech Adds Execs

Nexus FrontierTech, a London-based provider of AI-powered RegTech solutions for financial services, has made several hires to respond to increasing demand for its services and support ongoing growth.

The vendor has hired Matt Purcell as CFO to help bolster its growth through efforts including fundraising. Purcell was previously finance director at fund manager and investment services provider Parmenion Capital Partners, and has held finance roles at a range of companies, as well as spending almost 10 years at Barclays Capital as director of business management, and an audit manager at KPMG.

Nexus FrontierTech has also hired Dilpreet Sall as an artificial intelligence and automation analyst. Sall previously spent two years at IT consultancy Cognizant as an associate and a business analyst in its AI and Analytics Advisory division, prior to which she was a business development executive at ecommerce analytics platform E Fundamentals.

The duo follow the hire of Sardor Karimov last year as business development manager, who was previously senior business development executive at Digital Aquila, a provider of Salesforce Marketing Cloud consulting services, and a financial technology researcher in the fintech practice of recruitment firm Amrop.

Nexus FrontierTech CEO Danny Goh, says the company is seeing demand for technology that can address the pain points that financial institutions are experiencing in the current regulatory environment, to ensure compliance while promoting business growth.

CityExecutive Expands London Recruitment Team

London-based capital markets and fintech recruitment company CityExecutive has hired Yianna Florides as associate director to build on the company’s existing fintech search and recruitment activities.

Florides joins CityExecutive after senior roles at other technology-focused recruitment firms, including most recently director at IWorkInPayments.com, a principal consultant at Ingenio Group, head of sales at Pentasia, and senior managing consultant at Mark Loucas Ltd. She reports to CityExecutive managing director Miles Nicholls.