Vol 4 No 49
HUMAN FACTORS
HUMAN FACTORS
TREASURY VETERAN SPEARHEADS OPENLINK FINDUR
Openlink International, a financial and energy trading and risk management software vendor, has appointed John Lister as sales manager for the Findur treasury system and suite of financial tools. Lister joins Openlink from FNX Europe, where as director of business development he was responsible for European sales and marketing for the Sierra treasury system suite and strategic partner alliances. Lister started as a systems analyst for Shell UK and Control Data Group, he spent over 12 years trading currencies, swaps and derivatives before combining his technical and financial skills in treasury and risk product development and sales and marketing roles. During the course of his career he has worked for major international corporations such as Chase Manhattan and MW Marshalls.
BLINK HIRES FRENCH SALES HEAD
Blink, the electronic brokerage arm of Credit Agricole Indosuez, has hired Philippe Leprince in a new role as head of sales for France, based in Paris. Reporting to Jon Carp, European head of sales, he will focus solely on French institutional investors, private banks and hedge funds seeking to trade global equities electronically. Leprince joins from trading platform Etrade, where he was institutional sales director. He was also formerly the general manager of Thomson Financial Services' Paris office.
NEW POSITIONS AT ATRIAX
Online foreign exchange trading platform Atriax has announced a series of new hires. David Allanson joins as chief operating officer from Tudor Capital (UK) in London, where he was head of global treasury. He replaces John Wareham, who moves to AIG International as global head of foreign exchange. Allanson will be responsible for development and rollout of Atriax's dealing platforms and content, STP and MIS product streams.
Keith Hill joins as head of corporate and investor relationships for the Americas, based in New York. He joins from Currenex, where he was director of sales for the northeast US, east Canada and Latin America. Mike Thorpe joins as senior relationship manager for investor clients in Europe. He was formerly client director in ICL's financial services division in London. Lisa Kleinknecht joins as relationship manager for European investor clients from e-commerce FX sales at Bank of New York in London. Labeeb Abboud also joins as general counsel from American Express Bank in New York, where he was group counsel responsible for legal support of the American Express private bank, global investment services and third party distribution groups.
All the positions are new apart from Allanson and will be based in London, with the exception of Hill. Allanson, Hill and Abboud report directly to CEO Dan Morehead, while Thorpe and Kleinknecht report to Lee Ann Jones, head of corporate and investor relations for Europe, who joined the firm in London earlier this year.
EUROCCP NAMES CEO AND COO
European Central Counterparty, the cross-border clearing and settlement solution for transactions on Nasdaq Europe, has named Jeffrey Smith as chief executive officer and Bernard Till as chief operating officer. Smith will continue with his role as managing director of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp.'s International Services Division while he is CEO. (The Depository Trust and Clearing Corp. owns the European Central Counterparty.) Smith was executive vice president and international treasurer for Daiwa Securities America before joining the DTCC. Prior to Daiwa he spent 20 years at Salomon Brothers, where he last served as director and assistant treasurer in the global treasury department. Prior to the DTCC, Till worked at the London Stock Exchange, where he was instrumental in developing and implementing UK central securities settlement services. He was also responsible for the introduction of settlement in the UK and the transition of central settlement to Crest.
SEEBEYOND NAMES CHAIRMAN
Electronic business integration systems provider Seebeyond has appointed Raymond Lane, a general partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers and a four-year Seebeyond board member, chairman of the Seebeyond board. He will work with Seebeyond founder and CEO Jim Demetriades to expand the market potential for the firm's integration software. During Lane's eight-year tenure as president and chief operating officer at Oracle, annual revenues grew from $1 billion to $10.1 billion. Based at Seebeyond's headquarters in San Francisco, he replaces Demetriades, who formerly held the position of chairman in addition to his duties as CEO.
GLOBAL OPERATIONS HEAD TO DRKW
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the investment banking arm of Dresdner bank, has announced that Nigel Whitehouse will join the bank in December as global head of operations. Based in London, he will report to global chief operating officer Klaus-Michael Geiger. He joins from Deutsche Bank, where he had global responsibility for debt securities, money market cash, and structured transaction operations. He will replace Des Joiner, who retires after 37 years at DrKW, although he will continue to advise and represent the bank on industry-wide operational issues, such as STP and central counterparty clearing and settlement.
