Franklin Resources, a global investment management organization operating as Franklin Templeton, has appointed Sandy Kaul as Senior Vice President, to provide advisory consulting and thought leadership as part of the Franklin Templeton Institute. Based in New York, Kaul brings over 25 years of well-rounded industry experience, joining from Citi, where she served as Managing Director and Global Head of Business Advisory Services.
Coalition Greenwich has hired Todd Glickson as Head of Investment Management, North America. Glickson has extensive experience advising managers on product, marketing, distribution and growth strategy across both traditional and alternative asset management. He has held senior positions at Cohen & Steers, Principal Global Investors, Hartford Investment Management, and Federated Investors.
LiquidityBook has hired Bryon Cole as Director of Buy-Side Sales, based in New York. He will report directly to Head of Global Buy-Side Sales James Baxter. Cole most recently served as Director of Sales and Business Development at GLS Fund Services, where he led all sales and business development initiatives for the company’s data and intelligence products.
Trading Technologies International has added London-based industry veteran Nick Garrow in the new position of EVP Multi-Asset & Buy Side. Garrow has more than 20 years of senior management experience in capital markets and prime brokerage, leading significant global technological and operational transformation of businesses ranging from a tier-1 bank, to brokerage and clearing firms, to an exchange and fintech company. Garrow reports to TT CEO Keith Todd and joins the firm’s leadership team. Serving since 2019 as Global Head of IT and Operations for Societe Generale Prime Services in London, Garrow will now lead TT’s expansion into new asset classes beyond exchange-traded derivatives and a range of new services for the buy-side community, with the firm’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform as the foundation.
Swaad Golam has been named Chief Technology Officer for BXS. Golam brings extensive expertise and adds value for our clients; leveraging his subject matter expertise in low latency trading, real time trading analytics and telemetry. He comes from a highly diverse and unique background in capital markets, low latency trading, and quantitative development, having previously worked for BGC Partners, Tradeweb Markets, and Corvil.
State Street Corporation has appointed Michael Knowling to head its Global Clients Division (GCD). Knowling will report jointly to Joerg Ambrosius and Chris Coleman. Knowling joins from Prudential Financial where he was the Head of client relations and business development within Prudential Retirement with responsibility for managing the profitability, growth and client satisfaction for Prudential while developing and delivering innovative retirement solutions.
Confluence has appointed Chris Riggio as Chief Revenue Officer and Phillipa McLune as Chief Client Officer. Riggio joins Confluence from ISS Market Intelligence, where he was Global Head of Sales and Client Engagement. McLune joined Confluence with the acquisition of Investment Metrics where she was Global Head of Customer Success. She brings over 25 years of experience delivering software-as-a-service (SaaS) and enterprise technology solutions to the world’s leading financial institutions.
Capitolis has made a number of key strategic hires and notable promotions across the New York and Tel Aviv offices. Lindsey Baptiste has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer. Thomas Droumenq joins as Head of Capitolis’ Ionic Product. He spent 23 years at Société Générale where he held roles as Head of Equities & Derivatives and Head of Sales for the Americas region. Nancy Henderson joins as Program Structurer, tasked with leading the development of the Capital Marketplace structures. Prior to Capitolis, she held the dual position of Global Head of Fixed Income Asset Management and Branch Manager of the New York Office at FMS Wertmanagement Service. Leon Leviner has taken the role of Head of FX Engineering based out of Capitolis’ Tel Aviv office. Prior to Capitolis, Leon was Chief Technology Officer at Otoma. Taylor King has joined as Head of Marketing for Brand, Strategy and Operations. Prior to Capitolis, she held roles in both global and regional marketing at technology software giant SAP, most recently serving as Director of Strategic Initiatives within the company’s Global Demand Center. In addition, the company’s Strategy and Corporate Development team expands with Keerthan Harish joining as Senior Manager of Corporate Development, and Eyal Pelleg stepping into the role as Senior Manager of Strategy.
Opsmatix, an innovative fintech providing AI-powered unstructured communications management solutions, has hired New York-based seasoned finance and technology executive Dan Kramer as CEO. Kramer replaces Justin Forrest, who is now the global COO of the company. He has held senior leadership roles at BNY Mellon, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley. Most recently he was Vice-Chair at Calastone.
