Trade Ideas Ltd Taps Research Vet Jowers as MD

Trade ideas hub provider Trade Ideas Limited has hired Colin Jowers as managing director to lead the vendor, and to get more sell-side firms and trade ideas providers involved as contributors to the service.

Jowers most recently served as an industry consultant and advisor, prior to which he was chief operating officer at Red Deer, a provider of Mifid II-compliant workflow solutions. He was previously CTO and a board director at aircraft charter company Air Partner, prior to which he was MD and chief operating officer of the Research & Strategy division at Royal Bank of Scotland, and spent 17 years at Dresdner Kleinwort, including as COO, COO of equity research, and European equity research operations manager. He also served as a board member of Trade Ideas between 2005 and 2009, and a board member of research aggregator TheMarkets.com between 2003 and 2009.

Jowers takes over from Simon Tizard, who served as executive director of Trade Ideas since 2007.