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Ice and NYSE announces senior leadership changes

Intercontinental Exchange and The New York Stock Exchange have announced a series of senior leadership changes. Sharon Bowen, an Ice and NYSE board member and a former commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, will become the next chair of NYSE, replacing Jeff Sprecher. In addition, Lynn Martin, currently president of Ice Fixed Income and Data Services, has been appointed the next president of NYSE, succeeding Stacey Cunningham, who will join the NYSE board of directors.

Hope Jarkowski, formerly the co-head of government relations at Ice and currently NYSE’s head of equities, will become its general counsel, replacing Elizabeth King.

Martin will continue to serve in her current role to help guide that business as Amanda Hindlian, the current global head of capital markets at NYSE, becomes the new president of Ice Fixed Income and Data Services. As this business continues to expand, Mark Heckert, the chief product officer of Ice Fixed Income and Data Services, will add leadership of the index and desktop areas of the segment as he broadens his duties.

In addition, Mark Wassersug, Ice’s chief operating officer, will transition to a new role as chief information officer. As Wasserug moves into this position, Stuart Williams will succeed him as Ice COO, reporting to Ice president Ben Jackson. Williams, who is currently president of Ice Futures Europe, will remain in that post until a successor is identified and in place.

As part of Williams’s transition into a new role, Trabue Bland, currently president of Ice Futures US, will oversee all of Ice’s futures exchanges, which will continue to report to Ben Jackson. Adding to Bland’s team, Jennifer Ilkiw, now the head of Ice Asia Pacific, will relocate to New York to serve as president of Ice futures US.

Elizabeth King, Ice’s chief regulatory officer, who reports to the Ice chief executive, will add responsibilities for Ice ESG, a product initiative around sustainable investing. King will also oversee the NYSE’s board advisory council, which works with the CEOs of NYSE-listed firms to identify diverse candidates for boards of directors of venture-funded and newly public companies.

Broadway promotes within for CTO, VP of engineering, and CIO

Broadway, a front-office solutions provider, has elevated three long-tenured Broadway technology leaders to its leadership team. The appointments include Eitan Reich as chief technology officer, Misha Weinberg as vice president of engineering, and Dario Gatta as chief information officer. 

The promotions follow a spate of executive hires, the recent expansion of Broadway’s global business development team, and a corporate rebrand as the company repositions itself to maximize future growth.

Reich will drive Broadway’s overall technology vision, strategy, and innovation roadmap, leveraging his 14-year tenure at Broadway including multiple technology leadership roles. He was previously chief architect, director of product, and director of professional services.

Weinberg will oversee Broadway’s software engineering organization to design, implement, and deliver the company’s fixed-income trading solutions. Since joining Broadway in 2013, Weinberg has worked directly with Broadway’s tier-one bank customers to plan, deploy, and launch their Broadway trading systems, and previously managed the company’s dealer-to-dealer applications engineering team.

Gatta will oversee Broadway’s corporate IT, information security, and technology operations, as well as its Greyspan business, which offers Broadway clients full-service colocation, cloud hosting, and system oversight. Gatta has held multiple senior roles across software development, product management, and professional services.

FactSet bags Bodhani for EU sales

FactSet has hired Viny Bodhani as principal sales specialist for real-time consolidated feeds, covering exchanges and OTC data in the vendor’s Content & Technology Solutions division, with responsibility for growing business with new and existing clients in Europe.

Bodhani spent the past six-and-a-half years at Vela as sales director in London, prior to which he was business development manager for real-time services at Six Financial Information. Before that, he spent almost six years at Interactive Data, starting as a technical consultant for market data, before becoming an account manager and new business sales specialist. He was previously an IT analyst at UK building society-turned-bank Alliance & Leicester, and Royal Bank of Scotland.

Based in London, Bodhani reports to Elhams Berrhili, senior regional director of sales at FactSet.

Tourmaline hires trio for global trading and operations

Tourmaline Partners, an outsourced trading solutions firm, has announced multiple key new hires to further strengthen its team of global trading and operations experts. Brett Fischer has joined as managing director, supporting business development and strengthening relationships with existing clients. In addition, Michael Maloney has joined as a director on the firm’s US operations team, and Lavan Guruparan has joined as an associate director on Tourmaline’s Asia-Pacific operations team.

Fischer most recently spearheaded JP Morgan’s Americas electronic equity sales team. Prior to that, Fischer was head of ITG’s hedge fund sales team, counseling hundreds of hedge funds during both initial launch and subsequent stages of growth. While at ITG, he also led the firm’s electronic equity business. Fischer is based at Tourmaline’s Stamford, Connecticut headquarters.

Maloney was previously a director at Apollo Global and director of operations at Covalis Capital, and Guruparan most recently served as a trade support analyst at NAB Asset Management. Maloney works from Tourmaline’s Stamford headquarters, and Guruparan is based at the firm’s Sydney office.

TRG taps ex-Citi tech exec for CTO

Market data and technology inventory management software vendor TRG Screen recently hired James Bunch as chief technology officer, responsible for leading the vendor’s global technology organization and its operations function, directing software development and delivery, as well as maintaining client-facing systems and internal IT services.

Bunch was most recently VP of engineering at technology startup Qarik, prior to which he was a senior technical architect at Citigroup. Before that, he was a technical manager at Selex Systems Integration, and a software engineer at LogicaCMG.

Based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Bunch reports to TRG Screen CEO Steve Matthews.

Quantile makes two new senior product hires

Quantile Technologies, a provider of multilateral optimization services, today announced that it has strengthened its product team with the addition of Esben Urbak and Rami Atieh as senior product managers. Atieh joined in November, while Urbak joined earlier this year. Both report to Varqa Abyaneh, chief product officer.

Both Urbak and Atieh come from trading backgrounds and have joined the team to bring innovation and insight into new product development, with a focus on reducing risk and funding requirements in the derivatives markets. 

Urbak joins from MUFG Securities, where he worked for nine years and was responsible for managing the main exotics portfolio and executing all structured interest rate deals with clients across the globe.

Atieh joins from Crédit Agricole CIB, where he spent eight years in a variety of roles, including head of FX options Americas, where he led a team of traders in the US. During his time at Crédit Agricole, he was responsible for growing the bank’s US franchise; managing, trading, and pricing vanilla; exotic and structured products; and developing risk management tools. Previously, he also worked in France, as a quantitative developer at Lunalogic Group, and spent time in structuring and development roles at HSBC and Société Générale.

Appital appoints Mike Wharton head of product

Appital, an equity capital marketplace, has announced that Mike Wharton, a technologist with a background in equity capital markets, has been appointed head of product. He will support the delivery of Appital’s vision to bring innovation and automation to equity capital markets, unlocking and uncovering liquidity for investors and enabling them to gain greater exposure to deal flow and execution opportunities.

Wharton started his career in investment banking at Credit Suisse and Numis. He most recently worked at Kubrick Group as a technology consultant.