People Moves: Exegy, SEC, Clearwater Analytics, KopenTech, Lightspeed, Databricks

Exegy taps fintech vet Schachter as CRO

St. Louis, MO-based low-latency data appliance and analytics vendor Exegy has appointed Craig Schachter as chief revenue officer, a new role responsible for setting and leading the vendor’s go-to-market strategy.

Schachter was most recently a managing director at SS&C Technologies, responsible for relationship management for the former DST business line, prior to which he was global head of Finastra’s fintech ecosystem. Before that, he was SVP and global head of sales at FIS, which he joined via its acquisition of SunGard, where he was SVP of sales and relationship management for major accounts. Before joining SunGard in 2005, Schachter was SVP at corporate actions processing software vendor Xcitek.

Based in New York, he reports to Exegy CEO Jim O’Donnell.

Market structure, e-trading expert Hegarty joins SEC

Rob Hegarty has joined the US Securities and Exchange Commission as a senior policy advisor in its Office of Analytics and Research within the Division of Trading and Markets, to advise on market structure policy and rule-making issues, such as trading, clearing and market data.

Hegarty most recently ran his own consulting and advisory firm, Hegarty Group, and served on the advisory board of merchant bank and M&A advisory firm SenaHill Partners. Before that, he was general manager for financial services at enterprise AI platform vendor DataRobot, and was president of technology and operations consulting firm Olmstead Associates.

Between 2010 and 2014, he served as managing director of global market structure and global head of equities at Thomson Reuters, prior to which he was a managing director at The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, where he served as head of market structure, and head of strategy and marketing. Before that, he spent a decade at research firm TowerGroup as managing director of its securities, investments, and insurance practice, served as VP of trading systems at Putnam Investments, and spent eight years at Fidelity Investments as VP of technology for Fidelity Capital Markets, and as director of product development for electronic trading.

Das sails to Clearwater

Boise, Idaho-based investment accounting, reporting and analytics provider Clearwater Analytics has hired Souvik Das as CTO to focus on building out the vendor’s SaaS platform.

Das was previously CTO of HR, payroll and benefits app Zenefits, prior to which he was SVP of engineering at healthcare solutions provider Grand Rounds, and CTO of Capital One Auto Finance. Before that, he spent a decade at PayPal in various senior engineering roles, prior to which he held senior software engineering roles at AOL and Netscape.

Based in San Jose, Calif., Das reports to Jody Kochansky, president of product and technology at Clearwater.

KopenTech hires Scalisi to grow CLO platform

Los Angeles-based structured products trading and analytics platform KopenTech has hired Jill Scalisi as chief engagement officer, responsible for business development, launching new products, and overseeing the growth of its platform and the company’s sales efforts.

Scalisi was most recently co-head of the structured solutions group at Academy Securities, prior to which she spent a decade running her own skincare products company.

Before that, she was an executive director at Nomura Securities, and SVP and co-head of credit derivative and CDO product management at Lehman Brothers, and a VP at Chase, where she structured and marketed synthetic CLOs and risk transfer products.

Based in New York, Scalisi reports to the vendor’s board of directors.

Ex-TT CIO Mayhew soars to Lightspeed

Equities, options and futures broker Lightspeed Financial Services has appointed Mike Mayhew as CTO, responsible for overseeing development, IT operations, internal systems, cybersecurity, business continuity and resilience, and as part of the company’s executive team, will contribute to its strategic direction.

He most recently ran his own consulting firm, Amyna Technology, prior to which he served briefly as CIO and CTO of USA Sports Gaming. Before that, he spent 12 years at Chicago based trading software vendor Trading Technologies in various roles including director of global TTNet Operations, VP of global operations, and ultimately CIO. Before that, he was a staff engineer at Tellabs and a senior electronic project manager at Federal Signal Corporation.

Databricks taps ex-Bloomberg sales exec to grow financial services base

Data analytics provider Databricks has hired Roman Ostrovski as enterprise account executive for financial services, responsible for positioning the vendor’s solutions to data scientists, data engineers, business intelligence analysts and quantitative analysts and traders to help financial firms build machine-learning applications on top of Databricks’ Data Lakehouse architecture.

Previously, Ostrovski spent almost 11 years at Bloomberg in various roles, including most recently enterprise sales for trading systems, selling pricing, execution, risk and OMSes to banks in the US and Mexico. He also served as team leader for enterprise risk, collateral and OTC derivatives analytics, and began his time at the vendor in enterprise sales for emerging markets.

In his new role, Ostrovski reports to Alexandra Mysak, director of financial services at Databricks.