Matt Rathbun has joined OCC as Chief Security Officer-Elect and will succeed current CSO Mark Morrison following his upcoming retirement. Rathbun has more than 25 years of experience in information technology and systems engineering, most recently as CSO for Two Sigma. Once Rathbun officially takes over the CSO role, he will be responsible for OCC’s Cyber Operations, Security Governance, Cyber Risk, Security Business Operations, Security Architecture and Engineering, and Security Red teams.
Isobel van Daesdonk and Scott Willard have joined Barclays as Managing Directors within the Americas Financial Sponsors Group. Van Daesdonk is a seasoned Investment Banker with 25 years of experience. She joins Barclays from Guggenheim Securities, where she was a Senior Managing Director in Financial Sponsors Investment Banking. Willard has over 20 years of experience in Investment Banking. He has served the Private Equity and Alternative Asset Manager client base in Advisory, Capital Markets and Leveraged Finance roles at Deutsche Bank, UBS, and most recently Nomura Securities.
Derivative Path has appointed Rob Showers as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Most recently, he served as Chief Revenue Officer at Coherent, where he led growth initiatives across their global capital markets and banking services division. His prior senior roles included BNP Paribas, SS&C, UBS, and Barclays.
Liquidnet has expanded its Multi-Asset Services team with the addition of Patric Okumi and Samuel Lowres to lead Multi-Asset Sales. Okumi has spent 11 years within TP ICAP Group, with a multi-faceted background in broking and trading. He was part of ICAP’s Equity Trading desk before building out the Single Stock Equity and ETF RFQ offering on Fusion, the firm’s market-leading electronic platform. Lowresjoined Liquidnet three years ago as part of the Liquidity Partnerships team.
BGC Group, a global brokerage and financial technology company, has named Stephen Merkel
as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Howard W. Lutnick, who was confirmed by the United States Senate as the 41st Secretary of Commerce, has stepped down as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of BGC.
Brian Young will serve as Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Director of Enforcement. Young has been serving in an acting capacity since January 22, and previously was the Director of the Whistleblower Office. He is a distinguished federal prosecutor with nearly 20 years of service at the Department of Justice, including Acting Director of Litigation for the Antitrust Division and Chief of the Litigation Unit for the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division, and has successfully tried some of the most high-profile criminal fraud and manipulation cases in the CFTC’s markets.
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