People Moves: Eventus Systems, Hudson Fintech, Cutter Associates, Beeks & More

Veronica Augustsson Joins Doconomy As Chairman of the Board

Veronica Augustsson, former CEO of Stockholm-based Cinnober Financial Technology (which is now a subsidiary of Nasdaq), has joined fintech company Doconomy as chairman of the board.

Doconomy helps track and measure companies’ carbon footprints. The firm has developed a mobile app to promote sustainable consumption and its Åland Index impact calculations uses data covering 99% of global market cap, through a partnership with Trucost, which is part of S&P Global. 

Augustsson is a founding partner of 7Ridge, a growth equity firm that invests in technology enabled financial services. She spent a large part of her working life at Cinnober, having joined the firm in 2002 as a developer. Between 2012 and 2018 she was the company’s CEO.

Eventus Systems Taps Joseph Schifano For Global Head of Regulatory Affairs

Eventus Systems, a trade surveillance and risk management software platform provider, has hired Joseph Schifano as global head of regulatory affairs. In the new role, Schifano will partner with key client stakeholders to assess their experience and generate ideas for new functionality and products based on marketplace intelligence.

Schifano is an attorney specializing in market surveillance matters, most recently as deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer at Tower Research Capital in New York, which he joined in 2014. At Tower Research, Schifano led the global compliance team covering proprietary trading activity in electronic markets worldwide. Previously he was vice president of US markets in the the New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) legal department, responsible for advising the exchange’s affiliates on rule interpretations, regulatory exams, and reporting. He has also served at Barclays and UBS.

Schifano is based in New York and will report to Eventus president Jeff Bell. The firm has also appointed Mikhail Gasiorowski as North American sales director, and Diane Imas as director of marketing.

Hudson Fintech Appoints Ashley Daffin As Director of Strategic Development

Hudson Fintech has appointed Ashley Daffin as director of strategic development. Daffin has worked in the capital markets for 30 years, while holding institutional sales roles at HSBC, NYSE, and Refinitiv, as well as working with a variety of start-ups on business development. He is also chair of the Education Committee at financial markets association ACI UK, working with the foreign exchange (FX) industry to increase global code of conduct compliance.

The vendor has also hired Martin Best as head of business development. Martin has worked in senior sales and relationship management roles for more than three decades, including fixed income sales at Alpha Bank, Danske Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, LBBW, and, most recently, Rabobank.

Beeks-Velocimetrics Announces Matthew Cretney As Head of Product Management

Beeks Financial Cloud and Velocimetrics have hired Matthew Cretney as head of product management.

Cretnet brings decades of experience working in fintech and infrastructure, with most of those years spent with Thomson Reuters/Refinitiv, where he was the technical product lead for its SaaS-based FX eTrading platform and oversaw the development of Refinitiv’s FX spot and forwards matching services.

Beeks is a provider of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for low-latency financial markets and acquired Velocimetrics in April 2020. Velocimetrics’ technology provides businesses with tracking and performance analytics.

Storage Vendor RStor Hires Michael Hepburn

Trading systems sales veteran Michael Hepburn has joined cloud data storage provider RStor as senior sales director in London. As the company’s first UK-based salesperson, Hepburn will be responsible for building the European client base for RStor’s data storage offering and for building a sales team of 15 people within one year, covering the EMEA region.

Hepburn was previously regional VP for EMEA at Quantum Metric, a digital customer experience platform provider, prior to which he was enterprise sales director at data science company Looker. Other past roles include sales director at cloud business intelligence provider Birst and capital markets sales at Teradata. He has also served as strategic sales director at GL Trade, and business development director at Trayport.

At RStor, Hepburn reports to chief revenue officer Paul Buttle.

Etrading Announces David Lane As Technical Operations Officer

Etrading Software has announced the appointment of David Lane as technical operations officer. In the new role, he is expected to help develop and roll out technology solutions at the institutional level.

Lane, who previous worked at NatWest Markets and RBS, has recent experience in supporting financial institutions in technology strategy, governance, and risk frameworks primarily in association with cloud migrations.

Etrading has also announced two other senior appointments. Will Palmer has joined as chief information security officer (CISO). He is tasked with building a company-wide security strategy for the firm, and brings more than 25 years’ experience in financial services IT in London and Asia.

The other appointment is of James Haskell for the role of business operations officer (BOO). Haskell will have oversight for the day-to-day operational running of Etrading Software’s managed service products. He has more than 20 years’ experience working in financial services and operations in London, New York, and Hong Kong, including more than 13 years at Goldman Sachs.

Rob Leck Joins Cutter Associates As Consulting Director

Cutter Associates, a research and consulting provider to asset managers and wealth managers, has hired Rob Leck as consulting director.

Leck will be based in Melbourne to serve the needs of the firm’s growing client base of asset managers and superannuation funds in Australia and New Zealand. 

Previously, Rob was a senior portfolio manager on QSuper’s investment strategy team, where his responsibilities included asset allocation, portfolio construction, and risk management, as well as supporting the equities, fixed income, and alternatives teams.

He has also worked at Cbus Super Fund, Vanguard Investments Australia, and Queensland Treasury Corp.