People Moves: Quorsus, 3Forge, GoldenSource, Arca

Quorsus appoints Kieran Mullaley as managing partner and head of consulting delivery

Quorsus, a provider of consultancy services to financial institutions, has appointed Kieran Mullaley as managing partner and head of consulting delivery.

Mullaley joins Quorsus with 25 years of consulting and capital markets experience. He established and led the capital markets operations consulting practice at EY in the UK. He worked with senior management at financial services firms to support their transformation agenda and manage the challenges of regulatory change. Prior to EY, he was a partner at Capco, a business and technology management consultancy.

Mullaley is the latest addition to the Quorsus team. The firm, founded at the beginning of 2020, has grown its team to 35 people, working on a variety of projects across a range of clients.

3Forge Nabs Refinitiv, Reuters Vet Mellor for US Sales

New York-based low-code analytics platform vendor 3Forge has hired Guy Mellor as director of sales for North America, a newly-created position in which he will be responsible for spearheading capital markets sales for the vendor.

Mellor was most recently a sales executive at in-memory analytics technology provider ActiveViam, prior to which he spent two years at Finastra as a senior sales executive, following 19 years at Refinitiv, Thomson Reuters and Reuters in various roles, including strategic account sales, and as a FX and money market sales specialist. Before that, he was an institutional equity sales executive at Mizuho International, and a futures and options broker at GNI Holdings (now Man Group).

Based in New York, Mellor reports to global head of sales and business development Peter Sibirzeff.

GoldenSource hires Jeremy Katzeff as head of buy-side solutions

GoldenSource has announced the appointment of Jeremy Katzeff, CFA as head of buy-side solutions.

In the new role, Katzeff will further expand GoldenSource Nexus, the investment data management platform that encapsulates the firm’s data mastering and investment data warehouse solutions. Katzeff will also build additional relationships with consultants and integrators, extending GoldenSource’s coverage of buy-side technologies.

Katzeff has held senior roles building and implementing buy-side solutions at Broadridge, JP Morgan, and BlackRock.

Based in NYC, Katzeff will report to the global head of products, Tom Stock.

Arca makes senior appointments

Arca, an asset management firm focused on the digital assets space, has appointed Vance Sanders as chief financial officer and chief compliance officer, and Nikesh Dalal has joined as head of product for Arca’s innovation division, Arca Labs.

Sanders formerly served as chief financial officer, chief technology officer, and chief operations officer at Equinox Financial Group. He was responsible for directing corporate finance, fund reporting, fund operations, risk management, internal controls, and information systems. He also served as treasurer/principal financial executive of the Equinox Funds Trust.

Dalal was recently a program director at Yieldstreet, where he spearheaded the assembly and launch of a registered closed-end fund and evaluated blockchain solutions. Previously, he was a solutions architect focused on enterprise use cases with blockchain software firm ConsenSys. Dalal held prior positions at Corvil and Travelers focused on enterprise technology, consultative sales, and technical advisory.