People Moves: LSEG, Cboe, Northern Trust, LiquidityBook, and more

Irfan Hussain to join LSEG as chief information officer

London Stock Exchange Group has announced that Irfan Hussain will join the group as chief information officer in January 2024, responsible for leading LSEG’s technology team. He will be based in New York, and will join LSEG’s executive committee, reporting to CEO David Schwimmer.

Hussain joins from Goldman Sachs, where he is a partner and chief operating and strategy officer for engineering. He has held various roles at the firm, including CIO for consumer and wealth management, and roles in the global banking, markets, asset and wealth management divisions in New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1995 as an analyst in foreign exchange technology in New York and was promoted to managing director in 2006 and partner in 2014.

LSEG’s current CIO Tony McCarthy will retire in early 2024.

Cboe Global Markets appoints Mandy Xu as VP and head of derivatives market intelligence

Cboe Global Markets has appointed Mandy Xu as vice president and head of derivatives market intelligence. In this role, Xu will look to produce high-level insights and analysis on derivatives market themes and flows, with a focus on furthering client education on Cboe’s markets and its suite of derivatives products.

Part of Xu’s content strategy at Cboe is expected to include creating a weekly series of market commentary highlighting themes and opportunities in the cross-asset derivatives market, as well as hosting a monthly webinar series geared for financial professionals. The series is planned to cover a broad range of topics and bring together industry experts to discuss their perspectives on the market landscape and options and futures strategies. The series is slated to launch on Wednesday, September 20.

Prior to joining Cboe, she was managing director and head of equity derivatives strategy at Credit Suisse, specializing in index and ETF volatility research. Before Credit Suisse, Xu worked as a cross-border M&A analyst at E.J. McKay, a boutique investment bank in Shanghai.

Northern Trust taps Caroline Higgins for APAC head of global fund services

Northern Trust has named Caroline Higgins as head of Global Fund Services (GFS), Asia Pacific.

Higgins will be responsible for overseeing services to global investment managers including fund administration, depositary services, global custody, transfer agency, investment operations outsourcing and data solutions—supporting a range of complex investment strategies across the full spectrum of asset classes.

Higgins, who joined Northern Trust in 2016, was most recently head of Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan at Northern Trust. In her new role, she will return to her native Australia, where she will focus on leveraging Northern Trust’s global capabilities and expand regional products and services for Northern Trust’s asset manager clients. She will report to Toby Glaysher, president of GFS.

Prior to joining Northern Trust in 2016, she held senior leadership, product and client management positions within Asia, Europe and Australia working at Brown Brothers Harriman, State Street, RBC Global Services, UBS Brinson, and Citibank.

LiquidityBook hires Twitter’s former senior director of engineering

LiquidityBook, a provider of cloud-native buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has announced the hire of Can Envarli as vice president of engineering. Reporting directly to chief technology officer, Shawn Samuel, Envarli’s primary focus will be to lead and cultivate LiquidityBook’s growing engineering team.

Working alongside other members of LiquidityBook’s leadership team, Envarli will be responsible for overseeing the development and execution of innovative engineering strategies. He is the firm’s second hire from Twitter in recent months.

He brings nearly two decades of product management and software engineering experience to LiquidityBook. He joined Twitter in 2014 after working as a senior development lead for Microsoft Advertising. In his time at Twitter, Envarli led engineering for a significant portion of Twitter’s product infrastructure, playing a key role in both the platform’s feature development as well as initiatives in support of recruiting and training. Most recently, he served as senior director of engineering for product foundation, where he led several platform and consumer product engineering teams for Twitter.

Azentio taps former Akamai vet Sanjay Singh as CEO

Azentio Software, a Singapore-based software products company owned by funds advised by Apax, has named Sanjay Singh its new chief executive officer.

Singh most recently served as chief revenue officer at Datto, a provider of cloud-based software and security solutions. He led Datto’s go-to-market strategy, culminating in the company’s IPO and its eventual acquisition by Kaseya in June 2022. Prior to his tenure at Datto, Singh spent nearly 18 years at Akamai Technologies, building and overseeing various go-to-market functions across the globe.

Eric Chen joins TS Imagine’s sales team in Hong Kong

TS Imagine, a global, cross-asset provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for financial institutions, has added Eric Chen to its APAC sales team. He will be based in the company’s Hong Kong office and reporting to Fred Villain, TS Imagine’s head of APAC sales.

Chen joins TS Imagine from SS&C Technologies, where he managed the organization’s top accounts in APAC and oversaw sales activity across mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Prior to that, he was at fintech solutions company FIS Global.

Chen is the most recent hire in TS Imagine’s APAC team, led by Sim Johal, who relocates to Hong Kong from London in September. His appointment follows the recent hires of Stephanie Cheung and An Hoong in Hong Kong, and the relocation of OEMS product manager Surika Vosloo from London to Sydney, Australia.

Diffusion Data nabs former CME systems exec Fink

Diffusion Data, a provider of real-time streaming data infrastructure solutions, has named Scott Fink as managing director of the Americas.

Fink was previously executive director of site reliability engineering at CME Group, where he spent 17 years in a range of systems engineering roles, and was most recently responsible for global trading, post-trade and market data infrastructure delivery.

In his new role, he will have responsibility for all customer and partner activities in the US, Canada and Latin America, and will report to Diffusion Data CEO Grethe Brown.

Cohesity adds to executive team

Cohesity, a data security and management vendor, has named Eric Brown as chief financial officer and Srinivasan Murari as chief development officer.

Brown will manage Cohesity’s financial strategy as it expands its multi-cloud portfolio for data protection, redefines AI-powered data security and data management, and continues on the path to profitable long-term growth. Murari will be responsible for Cohesity’s engineering and R&D teams as they continue to innovate across AI, security, and multi-cloud.

In 2021, Brown led Informatica’s initial public offering as CFO, raising $1 billion in proceeds at a $10 billion in enterprise value. Prior to that, he served in several public company CFO roles, including Electronic Arts, McAfee, and Polycom.

Murari most recently served as vice president of engineering at Google Cloud. Before Google, Murari served as SVP of engineering at VMware.

ViewTrade adds execs in APAC, India

Brokerage technology provider ViewTrade has announced that Laksh Gangwani will assume the role of chief revenue officer (CRO) for the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions, and has also appointed Ronit Kar head of international growth.

Based in Singapore, Gangwani joined ViewTrade in September 2022 as a managing director for Asia and has played a pivotal role in expanding the footprint of ViewTrade in the APAC region. In his new role Gangwani will also be spearheading the firm’s accelerated expansion across the Middle East, alongside APAC. Prior to joining ViewTrade, Gangwani spent time at Symphony, LexisNexis, and Thomson Reuters.

Based in Gandhinagar, India, Kar will focus on enhancing ViewTrade’s capabilities for international investors while driving continued growth across APAC from the company’s planned office in GIFT City, India’s first operational greenfield smart city dedicated to financial services and technology. He previously served as head of international stocks at Groww, India’s leading online investment platform.

Quor Group names Saeed Patel chief product and technical officer

Quor Group, a provider of advanced commodity trading and commodity management solutions, has hired Saeed Patel as chief product and technical officer. In his new role at Quor, Patel will be responsible for delivering the product and technology strategy.

Before joining Quor, he served as group director of product development management at Eastnets, a global provider of compliance risk and payment solutions to more than 800 banks. Prior to that, he served as the director of product strategy at KRM22, a company specializing in offering risk management solutions to financial institutions.