People Moves: HANetf, Broadridge, Liquidnet, big xyt, and more

Manooj Mistry joins HANetf as chief operating officer

HANetf has appointed Manooj Mistry as chief operating officer as part of the company’s continued expansion. He joins HANetf at the beginning of March 2021.

Mistry brings over 25 years of leadership in asset management and ETF business development as former CEO of DWS Investments UK Limited and Head of Xtrackers ETFs and Index Investing at DWS.

Reporting to co-CEO Nik Bienkowski, he will lead the product development, operational and regulatory aspects of the HANetf business.

Broadridge appoints Jerome Hoffman as head of international partnerships and alliances

Broadridge has appointed Jerome Hoffman to the newly-created role of head of international partnerships and alliances, focusing on the Emea and Asia Pacific regions.

In this new role, Hoffman will focus on creating and developing relationships with firms across the financial services spectrum, including technology vendors and service providers, consultancies, system integrators, market intermediaries and infrastructure providers.

Hoffman has been with Broadridge since 2012, prior to which he held senior business development roles at Harland Financial, SIX Telekurs and Bank of Ireland. Hoffman reports to Mike Thrower, VP international account management, and will also work in close collaboration with Ira Newman, Broadridge’s head of global partnerships and alliances.

Liquidnet Taps John Emmert for portfolio trading team

Liquidnet has announced the appointment of John Emmert as its head of trading desk for the Americas.

Most recently, Emmert worked at ITG as director on the global portfolio trading team, where his responsibilities included managing global portfolio trading baskets, advising clients on execution strategies, and managing the firm’s global equity prospecting initiative. Prior to ITG, Emmert worked for 10 years at Deutsche Bank Securities as director in the global program sales and trading group and held senior-level trading and sales positions at Société Générale, Susquehanna International Group, BNP Paribas, and Bankers Trust.

Based in New York, he reports directly to Liquidnet’s head of execution and quantitative services, Americas, Mike Capelli.

Philip Barnes joins big xyt as Asia Pacific managing director

Big xyt has appointed Philip Barnes as managing director, head of business development in Asia Pacific.

He joins big xyt from Amaggio Partners where, as founding partner and chief commercial officer, he established a strategic business development and management consultancy servicing the Asia Pacific region.

Prior to that, Barnes held several senior Asia Pacific management positions. At NYSE Euronext he was head of global derivatives business development and before that, head of sales for Fidessa, and head of sales for Sungard GMI. He was relocated to Singapore from London in 1995 by Thomson Financial where he was regional managing director for the global markets business.

American Portfolios promotes Steve Krameisen to chief technology officer

American Portfolios Financial Services has promoted Steve Krameisen to chief technology officer. 

His new role includes overseeing the development and implementation of IT strategies to accommodate current and future organizational needs while helping to attain the firm’s established operational and financial goals.

Krameisen joined the firm in July 2020 as chief information security officer. 

Sterling Trading Tech taps Erik Schmidt as chief operating officer

Sterling Trading Tech has appointed Erik Schmidt as the chief operating officer. He brings over 25 years’ capital markets experience providing leadership and guidance on strategic initiatives to high-growth organizations in financial technology and international trading.

Prior to Sterling Trading Tech, Schmidt worked with a variety of firms including Gelber Group, Deutsche Bank and Mako Trading managing teams in client services, trading operations and portfolio management. He joined Sterling in June 2019 to lead the client services team and to implement processes and procedures to help Sterling scale and manage growth.

Howard Rees joins Macrobond Financial as chief commercial officer

Macrobond Financial, a provider of economic and financial data, has appointed Howard Rees as chief commercial officer, effective immediately. He will oversee all global sales, customer activities; and strategic partnerships from the company’s London office. 

Rees most recently served as head of international sales at Burgiss, where he led the US private-equity data and analytics provider’s expansion across key markets. Prior to that, he held multiple senior leadership sales roles at Bloomberg LP globally, including global head of sales for the Bloomberg Data Management Services (formerly Bloomberg PolarLake) solution, head of their UK buy-side division, as well as EMEA head of business development.

Substantive Research makes senior hires

Substantive Research has appointed Michael Malpiede as senior sales associate Americas. The firm has also bolstered its UK team with the appointment of Alex Mackinnon as sales associate, in addition to hiring two developers, Daniel Kasprowicz and Kelly Jones.