People Moves: Rimes, Broadridge, TP Icap, Sifma, and more

Rimes recruits Justin Brickwood to lead benchmark data services

Rimes Technologies has appointed Justin Brickwood as head of benchmark data services. In this role, he will be accountable for product innovation and transformation. Based in London, he will join the executive committee and report to Brad Hunt, chief executive officer of Rimes.

Prior to joining Rimes, Brickwood was the head of corporate and investment bank innovation at Barclays, where he oversaw multiple initiatives spanning machine learning, API strategy, and business digitization. Before Barclays, he spent 23 years at Goldman Sachs working across multiple asset classes and regions and led the European equities electronic trading engineering team.

Broadridge continues expansion of asset management distribution advisory business 

Broadridge Financial Solutions has announced that Casey Quirk’s former chief strategist and principal, Ben Phillips, will join the firm to lead its emerging global asset management advisory services business.

As part of its ongoing distribution focused business growth strategy, Broadridge’s advisory services is building on its data analytics and research capabilities for global asset managers. Philips previously served as principal and investment management lead strategist at Casey Quirk by Deloitte for 13 years. His previous roles include managing director of strategic analysis with investment bank Jefferies Putnam Lovell and managing director at Cerulli Associates.

TP Icap appoints Sebastien Rozes as EMEA CEO

TP Icap Group, a global provider of market infrastructure and data solutions, has appointed Sebastien Rozes as regional chief executive officer for EMEA. He will be responsible for the governance, conduct, culture and regulatory agenda in the UK as well as on the continent.

Rozes was previously the head of EMEA corporate banking at MUFG and spent time at Royal Bank of Scotland, ABN Amro-Rothschild, BNP Paribas and Merrill Lynch.

Sifma appoints two managing directors

Sifma has appointed Guowei Zhang as managing director and head of capital policy and Bill Thum as managing director of the asset management group and associate general counsel. Zhang will work on prudential issues and capital policy and manage the capital and liquidity forums under Sifma’s prudential standing committee. Thum will join the Sifma asset management group and be responsible for the entirety of the AMG’s work in regulatory policy regarding the buy side’s use of derivatives.

Zhang is a banking capital policy veteran with 12 years of experience at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), focused on banking capital policy development, analysis, and compliance examination.

Thum joins Sifma after 11 years as a principal at Vanguard in the office of general counsel, where he served as global head of legal coverage for Vanguard’s derivatives trading. While at Vanguard, he was appointed to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s subcommittee on clearing and risk focusing on CCP capital and skin-in-the-game. Prior to Vanguard, Thum served as a partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, where he advised clients through the global financial crisis and helped tailor documentation across fixed income and equity derivatives and prime brokerage. Prior to joining Fried Frank, Thum was executive director and head of institutional securities documentation – Americas at Morgan Stanley.

Old Mission grows ETF team with addition of Lee Williams

Old Mission, a global multi-asset market-making firm, announced that Lee Williams has joined the firm as the European head of fixed income. In this role, he is responsible for continuing the growth of the firm’s direct-to-institutional customer exchange-traded funds business in Europe, with an added focus on fixed income. He is based in Old Mission’s London office.

Williams was previously the founder and managing partner of boutique trading firm and market maker Bluefin Europe. He previously held senior positions at Bear Stearns and the Helios Group.

Williams joins Todd Hollander, hired in January 2021 as global head of ETFs, and Joe Mahoney, hired in May 2021 as head of US ETF sales, as Old Mission continues to build out its direct-to-institutional customer ETF business.

Sentieo adds industry veteran as COO

Sentieo, a financial research platform provider, has added Michael Noonan as its chief operating officer. Noonan will spearhead the next phase of company growth to meet the mounting demand for Sentieo’s collaborative investment research platform. In his new role, he will leverage his years of experience to help deliver Sentieo’s platform to investment research teams around the globe. As the company continues to expand locally and globally, Noonan will also be responsible for building out the team and ensuring seamless collaboration across the organization to effectively deliver on the shared mission of improving the investment research process.

Noonan joins Sentieo from Clarifai, an AI platform company, where he was vice president of operations. Previously, he was a principal at Public Pension Capital, a private equity fund, and held positions at Eos Partners, JP Morgan, and Greenhill & Co.

BestEx Research appoints algorithmic trading veteran

BestEx Research Group, a provider of high-performance algorithmic execution and measurement solutions for equities, futures, and foreign-exchange trading, has appointed industry veteran Hector Robles as managing director of business development to expand the firm’s futures business. Robles will report to founder and chief executive officer Hitesh Mittal as BestEx Research aggressively expands its footprint in the futures market.

Robles brings over 15 years of electronic trading and transaction cost analysis (TCA) expertise and joins BestEx Research from RCM-X, where he headed distribution of its algorithmic and quantitative trading products. Previously, he was responsible for the distribution of UBS’s algorithmic execution strategies in futures, foreign exchange, and fixed income across the Americas and served as global head of electronic trading for futures at Mizuho Securities. In addition, Hector has held senior sales and product roles at Quantitative Brokers.