People Moves: Liquidnet, UBS AM, CLS, Mediant, Chainalysis

UBS Asset Management Promotes Barry Gill

Barry Gill has been appointed as head of investments for UBS Asset Management. He will oversee approximately $710 billion in assets under management across both traditional and alternative asset classes and will be responsible for over 450 employees. Gill has been with UBS for 25 years, serving roles in both the investment bank’s equities unit and in the asset manager’s O’Connor hedge fund.

Gill was previously head of Active Equities for the asset manager. He replaces Suni Harford, who was recently appointed as president of UBS Asset management. Ian McIntosh, who is based out of Chicago, will take over Gill’s old post as head of Active Equities.

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CLS Nabs Citi’s Hrvatin For Chief Risk Officer

Deborah Hrvatin has joined CLS, an FX settlement, processing and data solutions provider, as chief risk officer. She becomes a member of the executive management committee. She is responsible for CLS’s risk management framework and for building an enhanced culture of risk identification, challenge and mitigation.

Hrvatin previously worked for Citigroup, where she was global head of operational risk management for the institutional clients. Prior to joining Citigroup in 2017, she spent 22 years at Deutsche Bank, where she held several leadership roles including head of operational risk for the Americas and chief operating officer for the Global Securitization Group. She began her career in financial services as a commissioned bank examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Hrvatin is based in New York.

Liquidnet Hires New CTO

Liquidnet has appointed of Patrick Strobel as chief technology officer (CTO). Strobel will oversee the company’s overall technology strategy, including product development for Liquidnet’s business verticals, middle office solutions, data and analytics solutions, and overall systems architecture. He’s also tasked with aligning the company’s technology offerings following this year’s acquisitions of Prattle and RSRCHXchange, which, along with OTAS, will fall under a new business unit next year, Investment Analytics.

For the past two years, Strobel has been Liquidnet’s head of technology in EMEA. Prior to joining Liquidnet, he spent 15 years leading and working within technology teams at Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan, most recently serving as CTO and domain architect for CB&S Finance and Common Data Sourcing. Throughout his tenure at Deutsche Bank, he held multiple leadership positions including head of application services for P&L/IPV and global head of equity trading analytics. He also served as global development lead for equities program trading at JPMorgan.

Strobel will be based in London, reporting directly to Rob Laible, Liquidnet chief operating officer.

Mediant Appoints Tate Head of Operations

Mediant, a New York-based provider of investor communications solutions, has hired Gussie Tate as head of operations. In her new role, she oversees Mediant’s operations and manages service delivery while ensuring compliance with regulatory and service standards.

Tate joins from First Citizens Investor Services, where she was a senior brokerage operations manager. Prior to that, she held investment and broker operations management roles at Wells Fargo Advisors and Credit Suisse’s asset servicing team.

Tate is based in North Carolina.

Chainalysis Adds Three For Business Development

Chainalysis, a blockchain analysis and crypto asset research firm, has appointed three new business development leaders to manage growing demand for its cryptocurrency investigation and compliance software: Jason Bonds as chief revenue officer, Chris Manouse as public sector vice president, and Debra Brown as vice president of the Americas. The three appointments are meant to streamline customer engagement with cryptocurrency across the public and private sectors.

Bonds joins Chainalysis after more than 11 years at Ping Identity, wrapping up his time there as general manager of the PingIntelligence business. Previously, he held senior roles at Cast Iron Systems and Northern Trust. Brown, too, joins from Ping Identity, where she was director of east enterprise. Manouse comes from Box, a California-based cloud content management company, where he served as a senior director, spearheading Box’s efforts in supporting the US Federal Government.

Both Brown and Manouse will report to Bonds.