People Moves: ICE, Qomply, Genesis, Symphony, Trumid, and more

Edmonds takes over ICE Fixed Income and Data business

Intercontinental Exchange has appointed Chris Edmonds as head of the exchange group’s Fixed Income and Data Services business, taking over the role from Amanda Hindlian, following ICE’s decision to relocate the role from New York to its Atlanta headquarters.

Edmonds is currently Chicago-based chief development officer at ICE, which he joined in 2010, and has led its credit default swap clearing service, as well as leading product sales teams for fixed income, commodities and futures. Most recently, he has overseen ICE’s Clearing and Risk teams supporting its six derivatives clearing organizations. Before joining ICE, Edmonds was CEO of International Derivatives Clearing Group, and spent almost 11 years at interdealer broker Icap as CEO of its futures business and chief development officer for its energy business.

Qomply adds ex-FCA trade reporting expert

London-based regulatory technology vendor Qomply has named Sophia Fulugunya director of transaction reporting, in response to increased regulatory scrutiny around the quality of firms’ transaction reporting, market abuse, and surveillance programs.

Fulugunya was previously a capital markets associate at financial services regulatory consultancy Bovill, prior to which she spent six years at UK regulator the Financial Conduct Authority, on its markets reporting team and working on enforcement and market oversight, where she specialized in Mifid 2 transaction reporting and instrument reference data. Before joining the FCA, she was an adjudicator at the Financial Ombudsman Service and a business account manager at Barclays.

With Fulugunya’s experience, market participants will have access to a “front-line expert” in transaction reporting who can provide guidance and insight, officials say.

Genesis taps former AWS exec to lead sales

Low-code application development platform Genesis Global has named Nitin Gupta chief revenue officer, responsible for leading the vendor’s sales organization, including sales enablement, partnerships, strategic account management, and client success.

Gupta was most recently the Americas sales leader for global financial services at Amazon Web Services, where he spent eight years in senior business development roles. Before AWS, he was global head of financial services strategic initiatives at Yodlee, and banking sales director for retail banking and payments at CapGemini.

In his new role, he reports to Genesis CEO Stephen Murphy.

Symphony hires exchange sales vet Christian to lead business development

Financial collaboration infrastructure provider Symphony has hired Bryan Christian as head of business development to drive new strategic initiatives and revenues, including new markets, segments and client engagement.

Christian was most recently director of US institutional sales at LMAX Group, a currency exchange operator and trading technology provider, prior to which he was head of exchange at crypto market operator CrossTower, head of institutional services at Old Mission, and head of US sales at Cboe Global Markets, managing director of transaction services at Nasdaq, and connectivity manager at Bloomberg Tradebook.

Quinn gets expanded role at Trumid

Fixed-income trading platform operator and financial technology vendor Trumid has appointed Jason Quinn global head of sales, a new role created to respond to increased client engagement driving record activity on its platform. In addition, Quinn retains his existing role as chief product officer, responsible for product design, trading protocols and solutions. His new role combines Trumid’s product and sales teams into a single unit. Quinn was a founding member of Trumid’s leadership team at its launch in 2015, prior to which he held portfolio manager roles at Millennium Management and Caxton Associates, and was previously head of high-grade credit trading at Barclays Capital, as well as head of credit default swap trading at Lehman Brothers.

Fintech vet Schultis joins Siepe as advisor

Compliance and reporting technology services provider Siepe has appointed industry veteran Mark Schultis as an advisor to work directly with founder and CEO Michael Pusateri as the company advances its growth strategy and expands its products, services and data capabilities.

Schultis was previously a board member of data catalogue platform provider Knoema, and served as chief customer officer then CEO of annuity insurance provider SE2 (now Zinnia). Before that, he spent almost 20 years at IHS Markit as partner and SVP, prior to which he was a consultant at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Cboe shuffles leadership execs

Choe Global Markets has made three senior appointments on its global leadership team. Catherine Clay, previously global head of data and access solutions and digital, has been appointed global head of derivatives, a new role overseeing the exchange’s futures and options and indexes businesses in the US and Europe. Adam Inzirillo, formerly head of North American equities, takes over Clay’s role as head of data and access solutions, responsible for market data and access, global indexes, risk and market analytics, and execution solutions. Meanwhile, Oliver Sung, head of North American execution consulting, takes over Inzirillo’s role on an interim basis.

Post-acquisition, atNorth names Persson HPC chief

Sweden-based co-location, high-performance computing and AI service provider atNorth has named Daniel Persson chief high-performance computing officer, following the acquisition of Gompute, a high-performance computing and datacenter services provider that Persson co-founded in 2002. Officials say that under Persson’s leadership, the Gompute HPC platform and atNorth’s HPC infrastructure-as-a-service will provide a pan-Nordic full-stack solution for HPC and AI workloads.

Five board Canoe

Canoe Intelligence, a provider of financial technology solutions for the alternative investment industry, has made five senior appointments to support a planned expansion of its product suite. The vendor has appointed Jamie Slusher as director of client project management, responsible for client onboarding, including implementation, configuration, training, consulting, and collecting feedback. She previously spent 20 years in healthcare startups developing and implementing SaaS programs.

Jeffrey Lin has been named director of product management for data products, responsible for overseeing the design and execution of new data products. He previously worked at Blackstone Group and a DLT startup. Jordan Robbins joined the vendor as head of revenue operations, to develop and optimize sales processes at scale to support the vendor’s expansion. She previously served as head of US client success at Jacobi and as a portfolio analyst at Brown Advisory.

Mark Rossi joins Canoe as senior director of business development, responsible for account management and business development. He was previously SVP of business development at BNY Mellon and has also held roles at SS&C Advent. The vendor has also hired Peter Feliciano as director of extraction architecture and AI/ML, responsible for processing and extracting data from client documents using AI and ML. He previously held senior engineering positions at Clear Street, Blackstone Group and S&P Capital IQ.

XS.com names Zinonos to lead client support

Australian multi-asset broker and technology provider XS.com has hired Pavlina Zinonos as senior customer support manager, responsible for leading the firm’s customer support team and strengthening support between departments.

Zinonos was previously client support team leader at Cyprus-based currency and commodities broker HF Markets.