Eagle Investment Systems, a provider of financial services technology and a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, promoted Greg Farrington to head of sales, Americas. Farrington, an 18 year veteran, now takes overall responsibility for the Americas sales team, looking to drive growth in the region. Prior to his 14 years at Eagle, he was a fund accounting manager at Scudder Kemper Investments. y, securing and managing some of the company's largest sales contracts. He reports to Mal Cullen, managing director, head of the Americas & Eagle ACCESS.
Wolverine Execution Services (WEX) has hired Jason Lichten, as director of equities and listed derivatives trading strategies. Lichten, a 14 year pro, will focus on the growth and distribution of WEX's electronic listed options and equity trading business. Prior to WEX, he was vice president, electronic trading strategy at RBC. In his previous role, Jason was a key member of RBC's Market Structure team, where he was responsible for successfully helping to grow RBC's electronic trading platform and smart-order router, THOR. He reports to Joe Sacchetti, partner at WEX.
StockViews, a crowdsourced equity research firm, hired Thomas Beevers as its new CEO. Beevers, a 15 year veteran, was previously at Newton Investment Management, where he spent ten years as a fund manager of European Equities and managed funds in excess of $1 billion.
Block trading house JonesTrading brought in sales trader Jeff LeVeen as a managing director in its Morristown, N.J. office. LeVeen, a 17 year veteran, was a managing director and institutional sales trader at KCG Holdings and its predecessor, Knight Capital Group. He started his career at Smith Barney/Citibank in June 1997.
Former buyside trader Geffrey Gioia was hired as an institutional equity research sales trader and managing director at Northcoast Research. Gioia, a 22 year veteran, was formerly an equity research sales trader at Longbow Research for two and a half years. Prior to that, he was a managing director and equity research sales trader at FTN Equity Capital Markets / Midwest Research for just over 14 years. He started his career in 1993 as a buyside trader at National City Bank trading for the firm's Armada funds.
The firm also named David Lutz to lead its push into the exchange traded funds business. Lutz, a 22 year pro, comes from Stifel Nicolaus, where he built that firm's ETF business during his seven year tenure. Earlier, he was a managing director and sales trader, focusing on block trading at Wells Fargo/Wachovia Securities. He started his career at Alex, Brown and Sons.
Redline Trading Solutions is pleased to announce that Richard Harrington has joined our Board of Directors. Mr. Harrington, who also serves on the Boards of two public companies, was formerly CEO of The Thomson Corporation (now Thomson Reuters) and is currently founder and Chairman of Boston-based venture capital firm The Cue Ball Group.
Wells Fargo Advisors (WFA) named Devon McConnell as its head of WFA Digital, a newly created Operating Committee position. At WFA, McConnell will be responsible for leading the vision, strategy, development and ongoing management of the company's mobile and online client platform and the investment strategy for the digital platforms to enhance the ways in which WFA's clients connect with financial advisors and the firm. She most recently held positions of vice president of product and user experience design for AmercianExpress.com and head of digital client strategy at JP Morgan Asset Management. She has also worked at Citi where she served as senior vice president and product director, and at digital design agency Fusebox. She reports to president Mary Mack.
Jonathan Bohrer has joined Abacus Group as its chief financial officer. Bohrer, a professional with 18 years' experience, was previously the managing director of finance at ConvergEx Group. While there, he was responsible for financial analysis, M&A, capital planning and new product development. He reports to Chris Grandi, chief executive officer of Abacus Group.
Deutsche Bank has hired Scott Marcar as head of IT infrastructure.Marcar will also join in October as head of information technology infrastructure and be responsible for designing, operating and modernizing the firm's infrastructure and enhancing its security, stability and cost efficiency. He comes to the German bank after seven years with Royal Bank of Scotland, where he most recently held the position of chief information officer, corporate and institutional banking. He previously held senior technology positions at JPMorgan Chase. Marcar will be based in London.
The firm brought on Richard Shannon as Americas chief information officer and co-head of group technology & operations (GTO) Americas and Scott Marcar as head of IT infrastructure.
