People Moves: Refinitiv, State Street, DTCC, Liquidnet & More

Refinitiv Appoints Head of News Performance

Richard Mably fills a newly-created role at Refinitiv, head of news performance. He’s tasked with overseeing the dissemination of trusted news sources for the global financial community on the Refinitiv Data Platform, which aggregates relevant news from more than 10,000 sources and is consumed by 40,000 customers in 190 countries.

A career journalist and editor, Mably spent the last 25 years at Thomson Reuters across a number of roles, including EMEA editor and global editor for financial markets and commodities. He has also held roles at AP-Dow Jones and Platts. 

Franz Joins State Street as CIO

Brian Franz will join State Street in January 2020 as chief information officer (CIO) and member of the bank’s management committee, its senior-most strategy and policy-making group. He is meant to be both a business and technology leader at the firm, and his experience in data and analytics will support advancement of the State Street Alpha platform strategy.

Franz comes to State Street from Diageo, a London-based distiller, most recently serving as chief productivity officer, leading information technology, enterprise operations and business service functions across the company. He joined Diageo in 2008 as global chief information officer, having served as CIO for PepsiCo International and in a number of technology leadership roles at global companies including GE (and GE Capital) and AT&T.

At State Street, Franz reports to chief operating officer Lou Maiuri.

Liquidnet’s Sussman Becomes Head of Strategy for New Business Unit

Liquidnet’s Adam Sussman, formerly head of market structure and liquidity partnerships, moves into the role of head of strategy for Investment Analytics, the trading venue’s new technology and analytics arm that unites its last three acquisitions of OTAS, Prattle and RSRCHXchange.

Sussman is one of those managing the project as Liquidnet builds out its capabilities and pilots technologies, which will use OTAS’s specialization in machine learning, Prattle’s background in natural language processing, and RSRCHXchange’s investment research platform. He held his previous role at the firm since April 2014. Prior to that, he worked at TABB Group as director of research.

Sussman is based in New York.

DTCC Promotes Wolpert to MD of Government Relations

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed Alison Wolpert as managing director of government relations. Wolpert, who has led DTCC’s US government relations function for more than six years and serves as executive director of the organization’s political action committee, succeeds Mark Wetjen, who is leaving the firm in early January.

In her expanded role, Wolpert is responsible for leading DTCC’s global government relations strategy, focused on working with government officials and industry organizations to share DTCC’s perspective on matters that impact the firm’s interests around the world, such as harmonizing trade reporting rules, cybersecurity standards, and the use of fintech companies in post-trade processing.

In Europe and Asia, Wolpert will partner with Andrew Douglas, managing director, head of EMEA and APAC government relations at DTCC, on outreach to policymakers in the regions. She reports to Ann Shuman, general counsel.

Compliance.ai Hires Sales and Marketing Execs

Regtech provider Compliance.ai has hired Matt Hill to be vice president of sales and Julie Craig as vice president of marketing. Both will seek to bolster the company’s growth strategy and increase platform reach.

Hill brings 14 years of experience within the finance industry, most recently with S&P Global, where he was responsible for new business development and recurring revenue for its S&P Ratings and Capital IQ platforms. Craig brings more than two decades of experience marketing products to businesses and directly to consumers. She previously led marketing at AlphaSense.

Ion Energy Group Adds Head of Research

Ion Energy Group, an options broker in natural gas and electricity and portfolio company of OTC Global Holdings, has added Het Shah to the firm as head of research. Shah brings more than 15 years of experience in trading, research and product development to the firm and will help further build out its research capabilities.

Shah most recently developed a data analytics firm, analytix.ai, which used advanced big data modeling techniques to build forward-looking natural gas fundamental data. He also played a part in developing and growing enelyst.com, a widely used professional messaging platform for energy market professionals.

Prior to this, Shah was head of natural gas at Bloomberg and developed all the components for their natural gas regional models, including daily regional production, consumption, storage activity and flows for 16 regions across the US and Canada. In addition, Shah previously held research and analyst positions at BP, Platts and Constellation Energy.