Agency-only brokerage ConvergEx has appointed Ann Neidenbach as its new chief information officer. A 15 year market veteran, will be responsible for Convergex’s software development, information services, business processes and technical infrastructure. She will also be a member of the company’s Executive Committee contributing to business strategy. Prior to joining Convergex, she was most recently senior vice president of Market Systems at Nasdaq. Prior to Nasdaq, Neidenbach held senior positions at Citi as managing director of Electronic Trading Technology where she was responsible for overseeing the technology for equity and options electronic execution, algorithmic trading and electronic market making and as chief operating officer for Lava Trading.
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Standard Chartered announced that Viswanathan Shankar, the head of its business in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas, was leaving the company as the British bank continues to shake up its top leadership. According to a statement from the bank, Shankar resigned to “pursue other interests” after 13 years at the bank and would leave the board on April 30.
Airex, an online provider of financial market apps, has hired Tom Joyce and Karl Kilb for its Board of Advisors. Joyce, a 28 year market veteran and an investor in Airex, has more than three decades of experience in electronic trading and financial technology. He currently is the executive chairman at Arxis Capital and before that was the chief executive and chairman of Knight Capital. Kilb, a 29 year veteran, is currently president and chief executive of N2 Global Solutions. Before that, he was general counsel for Bloomberg and a founding principal of Bloomberg Tradebook LLC, the company’s electronic agency brokerage firm.
State Street Global Advisors has named Ronald O’Hanley, who stepped down last year as head of Fidelity Investments’ asset management business, as president and CEO. O’Hanley will replace Scott Powers as head of State Street Global Advisors, according to a statement Tuesday from the Boston-based company. Powers will start transitioning responsibilities to O’Hanley in early April and retire later this year.
