Rimes Appoints Former MSCI Exec Chairman

WatersTechnology has learned that Rimes Technologies, a provider of regulatory technology and managed data services, has named David Brierwood as its first-ever chairman of the board. He joined first Rimes’ board in 2015 as a non-executive director, and is based in London.

Brierwood previously worked at index specialist MSCI. After serving in various roles at Morgan Stanley for 20 years—including as COO of the bank’s equity division and COO of its institutional and retail securities group—he moved to MSCI in 2006 to serve as its chief operating officer (COO), a position that he held until he retired from the company in February 2014.

Brierwood will help to steer a company that has been making inroads into the regtech space through its RegFocus software suite, having traditionally been known on the buy side for its benchmark and data products. The most recent addition to that package was a new managed service called RegFocus BMR Data Feed, which was rolled out in November to help users adhere to the European Benchmarks Regulation. To read more about that service, click here.

In addition to his role at Rimes, Brierwood is also a director at Greensill Capital, and a non-executive director at data provider Preqin. From late 2014 to June 2018, he was a Crown Representative at the UK’s Cabinet Office, an advisory role where said representatives work with government departments to ensure that they derive as much value as possible from external contracts.