Brendan Brothers, EVP, Head of Financial Crime Management Technology and Nasdaq Verafin Co-Founder will step back from his current executive responsibilities and will transition into a senior strategic advisory role until at least December 31, 2024. Coinciding with Brothers’ transition to an advisory role, Nasdaq will implement a new leadership structure for Financial Crime Management Technology with the establishment of an Executive Chair position. Stephanie Champion, current SVP and Head of Sales, will succeed Brothers as EVP and Head of Nasdaq Verafin, responsible for overseeing the business. A 13-year Verafin veteran, Champion most recently was responsible for the strategy supporting Nasdaq Verafin’s growth in the upmarket client segment which has resulted in the signing of four Tier-1 and four Tier-2 bank clients in under 18 months. Jeremy Skule, EVP and Nasdaq Chief Strategy Officer will take on an additional responsibility as Executive Chair of Financial Crime Management Technology.
Broadridge Financial Solutions has appointed Brian Pomraning as Chief Product Officer of Broadridge Trading & Connectivity Solutions. Pomraning brings 25 years of leadership experience in the financial services industry covering product management, sales, marketing, and technology. He joins Broadridge from the capital markets technology provider, Exegy, where he served as Chief Revenue Officer. He has held various senior-level positions at Investment Technology Group, JP Morgan, Barclays, and Lehman Brothers.
Clear Street’s Co-Founder and CEO Chris Pento will assume an executive and partner role at White Bay, the family office of Co-Founder Uriel Cohen, effective at year-end 2024. At that time, Pento will depart his CEO role at Clear Street, and will remain on the Board of Directors where he will continue to guide the Company based on his expertise and leadership over six years of transformative and record-setting growth. Ed Tilly, the Company’s President, will become CEO & President upon Pento’s departure. Tilly joined Clear Street in July after a successful decade-long tenure as Chief Executive Officer at CBOE Global Markets.
TD Securities has appointed John Comerford as Managing Director and Head of Quantitative Strategy. Comerford joins from Credit Suisse, where he led the product strategy for algorithmic and quantitative trading, including supporting tools and analytics, as Head of Global Product, Strategy and Equities. Prior, he served as the Head of Global Trading Research at Instinet.
Sumeet Chabria, formerly Global Head of Business Services and COO for Technology and Operations at Bank of America and Global CIO for Banking and Markets at HSBC, has joined Genesis Global as a senior advisor. Chabria’s tenure as a global leader for technology and operations includes over twenty-five years combined at Bank of America and HSBC, in New York and London. He is CEO and founder of ThoughtLinks, a technology strategy consultancy catering to AI adoption needs of financial institutions.
ActiveViam, a global provider of advanced data analytics and decision-making solutions for financial services organizations, announced today that its Board of Directors has unanimously elected Shelley Magee to succeed Kathy Perrotte as the company’s chief executive officer, effective immediately. Magee will join the Board of Directors, and Perrotte will remain on the Board and act as special advisor to the company. Magee joins ActiveViam from Regnology, a provider of regulatory reporting solutions, where she has been chief operating officer, since 2022.
AccessFintech has appointed Christopher Daur to its executive team as Global Head of Sales. Having previously served as Head of Buy-Side at AccessFintech, Daur’s new role will expand the scope of his responsibilities to include sales, marketing, business development, and client relationship functions for both the buy- and sell-side of the business. Daur joined AccessFintech in July 2023 after spending 18 years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as Managing Director focused on post-trade challenges, strategy, and solutions.
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