People Moves: HSBC/Solidatus, AWS, West Highland, CloudMargin, and more

Solidatus hires former HSBC executive as first CDO

Metadata management software company Solidatus has hired Lorraine Waters as its first chief data officer. 

Waters will convene a new Solidatus customer advisory board and provide support to the business in data privacy, environmental, social and governance, and financial crime risk management.

Waters held various roles within HSBC, from CDO for global compliance, financial crime and regulatory compliance; to interim CDO (US); and group head of data governance and deputy group CDO. Before HSBC, she worked at a number of global banks and was global head of data management at RBS.

AWS adds Perry Beaumont for data science for finance

Amazon Web Services has hired former evaluated pricing specialist Perry Beaumont as a data scientist to focus on areas including cloud computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Beaumont will be responsible for identifying new insights into the uses and applications of AWS’s analytic resources for finance.

Beaumont was most recently head of data science at insurance provider Distinguished Programs and has also taught finance and data science at Columbia University.

Previously, Beaumont was head of evaluated pricing research and development at SIX (then SIX Telekurs), which acquired Complex Securities Evaluations, where he was president and CEO.

Frank Apellaniz joins West Highland 

Data industry veteran Frank Apellaniz has joined West Highland Support Services in New York as service delivery manager. He is responsible for a range of operational and client-facing duties, reporting to CEO Steve Roe.

Apellaniz joins West Highland from New York Stock Exchange, where he was a market data compliance manager, after spending a decade at Barclays Capital in IT and data roles, including US lead for enterprise data management. Before that, he was services delivery manager for support and market data at UBS’s Stamford trading floor, prior to which he spent nine years as market data services operations site manager at Perot Systems, running UBS’s outsourced market data operations, and before that served a prior stint at UBS (then UBS Warburg Dillon Reed) as a market data specialist.

CloudMargin names sales director for DACH Region

CloudMargin, a provider of collateral and margin management solutions native to the cloud, announced that Martin Heraghty has joined the firm as sales director for the DACH region in Europe, comprising Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and Central Europe. He has over 20 years of relevant experience, including more than 15 years selling trading technology solutions. Heraghty will operate out of London, reporting to David White, chief commercial officer.

Heraghty spent several years at Lombard Risk (now Vermeg), responsible for sales in the European territories. He also served as business development manager at Misys (now Finastra), a strategic partner of CloudMargin.

Heraghty joins CloudMargin after serving as sales director for seven years for Corvil, which was acquired in 2019 by Pico (a technology provider for financial markets). He was sales director, Europe, Middle East and Africa for Lombard Risk, from 2011.

EDI hires business development manager for Canada

Market data vendor Exchange Data International (EDI) has hired former head of sales at GFT Group, Stephen Straker, for the role of business development manager, Canada. 

Based in Toronto, Straker will be responsible for enhancing EDI’s presence in Canada’s financial and FinTech communities. EDI’s solutions include corporate actions, fixed income, investment funds, pricing, reference, tax, economic, derivatives, and short interest data.

Straker has experience in the Canadian market dating back to his early days as a trader on the floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange. He has spent his 25+ year career in financial markets as a trader and investment advisor, a builder and leader of sales, strategy, and business development teams, and as regional sales head of a global capital markets consultancy firm. Most recently, he founded Red Leaf Ventures, a business development and strategy consultancy firm.

Jane Lemmon joins Ultimus 

Ultimus, a provider of managed ETF and Index data services for the financial sector, has appointed Jane Lemmon to the position of global sales director. Lemmon will start her role on June 1.

Lemmon brings more than 15 years of financial software and data sales experience to her position at Ultimus. Before joining Ultimus, Lemmon spent four years at IHS Markit, joining as part of their acquisition of DeltaOne Solutions, where she was responsible for setting up and running their sales operation in the US. For the last four years, she was the company’s global head of business development for its ETF and Index Data offering.

Broadway Technology names chief legal officer

Broadway Technology, a provider of front-office solutions, has promoted Claudia Cantarella as chief legal officer. Cantarella will also join the executive leadership team.

Cantarella began her 13-year relationship with Broadway as an outside advisor in 2008 while a Partner and Co-chair of the New York Intellectual Property Group of Salans LLP. She has been general counsel and corporate secretary at Broadway for the past eight years. She established the company’s in-house legal function and many of its internal policies, including information security, employment, human resources, data protection, compliance, and ethics.

Plenitude appoints senior advisor

Plenitude has appointed former HSBC UK head of financial crime compliance and money laundering reporting officer Allan Clare as senior advisor. 

Clare has decades of financial crime risk and compliance experience, leading and managing financial crime functions and mitigation programs at systemically important financial institutions. Prior to joining Plenitude, he held managing director roles at HSBC, Barclays, and Nationwide Building Society and was director of risk, financial crime and security at RBS Insurance Group with responsibility for all financial crime risks across all insurance brands and businesses.