Vol 2 No 48
HUMAN FACTORS
HUMAN FACTORS
Taf Anthias, chief technology officer (CTO) for MQSeries development at IBM's Hursley Park offices in the UK is the newly appointed technical chair of the technical committee of the International Middleware Association (IMWA), which is making a push into Europe. Anthias was overseeing IBM's publish/subscribe efforts--part of a strategy to add to the roster of business integration packages that rely on MQSeries (TTW, November 9, 1998). The Message Queuing (MQ) technology from IBM has become widely adopted among major middleware providers to the financial services industry. Anthias and others on the technical committee will work to help provide the IMWA with mechanisms for interacting with other standards organizations. The IMWA also has four new Special Interest Groups (SIGs): Business-to-Business; Internet Application Integration; Middleware to the Internet; and the European Special Internet Group (ESIG). Some of the new IMWA members are: PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sanwa International, Chase, Fleet Bank and Hewlett-Packard. Sun Microsystems and Talarian are already members. More information is available from http://www.imwa.org.
TRS Consulting in London has appointed Gwyn Smith as principal consultant to further expand the company's expertise in Microsoft, focusing on Microsoft Exchange and internet-based technology. Smith is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and was previously working as a technical consultant at Computacenter. Prior to this he was a systems consultant at the Holdene Group.
Financial Technologies International (FTI) has named Amy Johnston senior vice president, professional services. Johnston will be based in FTI's New York headquarters. Responsible for leading the global professional services team, Johnston reports directly to Predrag Dizdarevic, FTI's CEO.
Primark named Suresh Kavan president of I/B/E/S International, which is a unit of the Primark Financial Analytics Division (PFAD). The division includes I/B/E/S, Vestek and Baseline. Kavan succeeds Joseph Riccobono, who will remain president of PFAD. Riccobono will become more actively involved in strategic planning and development for all of Primark, and will report to Joseph Kasputys, chairman and CEO of Primark.
The International Petroleum Exchange has appointed Richard Ward as chief executive of the exchange, following his short spell as acting chief executive after his predecessor, Lyndon James, left. Ward previously held the position of executive vice president for business development. Prior to joining IPE, Ward was head of marketing and business development at Tradition Financial Services and business development manager at British Petroleum.
For a more complete listing of the latest job moves and appointments, visit Herd on the Web at http://www.watersinfo.com/herd
