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FactSet adds Linda Huber as chief financial officer

FactSet has appointed Linda Huber as chief financial officer. She will join FactSet in early October. As CFO, Huber will lead FactSet’s global finance organization and oversee all financial functions, including accounting, corporate development, financial planning and analysis, treasury, tax, and investor and media relations. She will report to Phil Snow, FactSet’s chief executive officer.

Huber most recently served as CFO of MSCI. Prior to joining MSCI, she served as executive vice president and CFO of Moody’s Corporation from May 2005 to June 2018. Earlier in her career, Huber held a variety of increasingly senior roles in financial services, including executive vice president and CFO at U.S. Trust Company, a subsidiary of Charles Schwab; managing director at Freeman & Co.; vice president of corporate strategy and development and assistant treasurer at PepsiCo.; vice president of the Energy Investment Banking Group at Bankers Trust Co.; and associate in the Natural Resources Group at The First Boston Corp.

Huber will succeed Helen Shan, who has assumed leadership of FactSet’s sales organization as chief revenue officer.

AFMA appoints Brett Harper as new chief executive

The Australian Financial Markets Association has appointed Brett Harper chief executive officer. Harper succeeds David Lynch, who is retiring from AFMA after 25 years of service.

He joins AFMA from Promontory Australia, where he was a director providing consulting and risk management advisory services. Prior to that, he held several senior roles including chief operating officer and general manager of Financial Markets at Anglo Irish Bank, global head of traded market risk and business risk review at Barclays and head of balance sheet and market risk at APRA.

Tradeweb taps Sara Furber for chief financial officer

Tradeweb Markets, a global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities, and money markets, has added Sara Furber as its chief financial officer. She succeeds Robert Warshaw and will report to chief executive officer Lee Olesky and become a member of the executive leadership team.

Furber joins Tradeweb from US equity exchange operator IEX Group, where she was CFO. Prior to her time at IEX, she was a managing director and a member of Morgan Stanley’s management committee. She held several senior executive positions at Morgan Stanley, including chief operating officer for wealth management. She was previously chief operating officer for global corporate and investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, after leading investor relations for Merrill Lynch during the global financial crisis and through its merger with Bank of America.

Finos adds Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank tech leaders

The Fintech Open Source Foundation, a nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate adoption of open source software, standards, and best practices in financial services, has announced two new governing board chairs and two new board directors as part of the natural annual rotation of the board’s leadership.

John Madsen, chief architect for technology at Goldman Sachs, will become Finos board chairman and Russell Green, head of cloud architecture at Deutsche Bank, becomes the new vice chairman. Dietmar Fauser, Symphony’s chief information officer, and Traci Robinson-Williams, head of marketing insights at GitLab, join the board as directors.

Elementaryb appoints Shuab Akhtar as director of product

Elementaryb, an intelligent financial management platform for mid-market enterprises, has appointed Shuab Akhtar as director of product. Akhtar will drive the development, delivery, and ongoing evolution of the company’s business management software platform.

He most recently served as a senior business analyst for mortgage and corporate lending at Handelsbanken. Prior to this, he was lead business analyst for account opening on-boarding at Barclays.

SET promotes internally for head of market supervision position

The Stock Exchange of Thailand has recently appointed Paveena Sriphothong as senior executive vice president and head of the market supervision division. She will be responsible for the listing and market supervision policy and market surveillance departments.

Sriphothong has been at SET since 1991.