People Moves: Saxo Bank, Eventus Systems, TickSmith, and more
A look at some of the key "people moves" from this week, including Barry Raskin (pictured), who joins TickSmith as head of the vendor’s data practice.
Henrik Andersen joins Saxo Bank’s board of directors
Saxo Bank has appointed Henrik Andersen chief executive officer as the bank increases its focus on environmental, social, and governance and impactful investments.
Andersen joins from Vestas Wind Systems, a global provider in sustainable energy solutions, where he was CEO and president. He previously served as group president and CEO of Hempel, a global supplier of coatings and services in the protective, marine, decorative, container, and yacht industries. He also held executive leadership positions at ISS, a facility management company.
Eventus appoints Nick Wallis as EMEA managing director
Eventus Systems, a global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, has announced that Nick Wallis has joined the company as managing director for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region.
Wallis joins Eventus from Nasdaq, where he served as EMEA head of surveillance sales and account management, as well as other roles in market technology and commodity sales. Prior to his time at Nasdaq, Wallis was a business development manager for Tullett Prebon (now part of TP ICAP Group), responsible for marketing and promoting the brokerage business to senior management at investment banks and trading firms. He previously worked for Incisive Media (now Infopro Digital, the parent company of WatersTechnology), working on Risk.net’s sales and sponsorship team in Europe, before serving as US publisher, overseeing the magazine’s US commercial business.
Based in London, Wallis reports to Scott Schroeder, global head of sales for Eventus.
J&J’s Raskin to lead data at TickSmith
Barry Raskin, former chief executive of Six Financial Information, has joined TickSmith, a Montreal-based provider of data monetization technology, as head of the vendor’s data practice.
Raskin will be responsible for helping to guide companies on their path to monetizing proprietary datasets, supporting TickSmith’s sales team. The company recently announced it had raised $20 million in series A funding, including investments from the venture arms of CME Group and Databricks.
Raskin was most recently managing director at data and management consultancy Jordan & Jordan, where he spent the past six years, prior to which he was CEO for North America at Australian back-office technology vendor GBST. Before that he spent almost 20 years as president of data vendor Six Financial Information and its predecessor Telekurs Financial.
Raskin, who is based in California, reports to Marc-Andre Hetu, chief product officer and co-founder at TickSmith.
Duco expands board of directors with three new appointments
Duco, a cloud-based data automation company backed by private equity firm Nordic Capital, has announced that it has named Uwe Weiss, Linda Middleditch, and Spencer Lake to the company’s board of directors.
Weiss, now the chairman of Duco’s board, was CEO of Blue Yonder, a supply chain software start-up acquired by JDA, which he left in 2021. He also currently serves as a board member of software companies Matrix42 and Regnology.
Middleditch, a non-executive director of Duco, has led teams in senior roles at Itiviti, Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and UBS. She is also a non-executive board member of Macrobond.
Lake is a former investment banker who spent three decades between JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, and HSBC. He is now a founding partner at Element Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on enterprise fintechs. He rejoins the board following prior tenure with Duco’s former investors.
Bernstein Research hires industry names to lead new equity capital markets practice
Bernstein Research, the global sell-side research arm of AllianceBernstein, has announced that Jonathan Biele and Alastair Walmsley have joined the firm as global co-heads of equity capital markets (ECM). The pair will be responsible for building out the firm’s equity capital markets practice. The practice will target clients globally, with Biele and Walmsley coordinating their efforts on a geographic basis.
Biele joins Bernstein with 30 years of ECM experience. He most recently restructured and built out the ECM effort at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey (now Truist). Additionally, Biele spent time at Citadel Securities, Cowen, Lazard, and Lehman Brothers from 2005-2013 and was a member of the ECM teams at ABN-Amro/Rothschild and UBS Securities.
Walmsley brings more than two decades of capital markets experience to Bernstein Research. He previously held ECM roles at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, and served as head of primary markets at London Stock Exchange Group.
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