Apollo, Credit Suisse and the Chamber of Digital Commerce also have People Moves announcements.
CME Group Promotes Two Veterans
Julie Winkler, CCO, CME Group
CME Group reports that Julie Winkler has been named chief commercial officer (CCO) and Kim Taylor has been named president, Clearing and Post-trade Services, a newly created post.
Both Winkler and Taylor are CME veterans, with Winkler joining in 1996 and Taylor in 1989.
Winkler will oversee sales, product marketing, research and data analysis, as well as the company’s innovation lab, CME says. She fills
Kim Taylor, president, Clearing and Post-Trade Services, CME Group
the position formerly held by Bryan Durkin, who became CME’s president last month.
Both she and Taylor, who has responsibility for the company’s clearing house, post-trade and digitization businesses, will report to CME Group Chairman & CEO Terry Duffy.
Winkler has been senior managing director, research and product development at CME since 2014, and “she has held a variety of leadership roles across research, index services and business development since joining the company as a staff investigator in 1996,” per the statement.
Taylor has been president, global operations, technology and risk at CME since 2014. “She has held a variety of leadership roles in CME Clearing since she joined the company in 1989, including President, CME Clearing from 2004-2014,” the statement notes.
Apollo Global Management Hires from Lazard
Private equity firm, Apollo Global Management, has appointed industry veteran Gary W. Parr, a former executive at Lazard, as a senior managing director and co-chairman of the firm’s Management Operating Committee, reporting to Joshua Harris, co-founder and co-chairman of the Management Operating Committee, officials say.
Before joining Apollo, Parr was a vice chairman at Lazard where he provided “strategic advice to financial institutions worldwide for over 30 years,” officials say. “During the financial crisis, he advised on the restructuring of Lehman Brothers, the sale of Bear Stearns to JPMorgan, the U.S. Treasury led restructuring of Fannie Mae and Mitsubishi UFJ’s investment in Morgan Stanley.”
Before joining Lazard, Parr was with Morgan Stanley in many capacities, serving as chairman and head of global financial institutions, and earlier was co-head of the global mergers and acquisitions department, officials say. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Parr was co-president of Wasserstein Perella.
Officials add that other members of the Management Operating Committee include: Lisa Bernstein, global head of human capital; Anthony Civale, lead partner and chief operating officer — credit; Stephanie Drescher, global head of business development and investor relationship management; Martin Kelly, chief financial officer; Scott Kleinman, lead partner — private equity; Sanjay Patel, head of Europe; Imran Siddiqui, senior partner — private equity; John Suydam, chief legal officer; and James Zelter, managing partner and chief investment officer —credit. In addition, Michael Jupiter, partner, serves as chief of staff to the Management Operating Committee.
Apollo has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Bethesda, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Madrid, Luxembourg, Singapore, Mumbai, Delhi, Shanghai and Hong Kong, officials say. Apollo had assets under management of approximately $189 billion as of September 30, 2016, in private equity, credit and real estate funds invested across a core group of nine industries where Apollo has considerable knowledge and resources.
Credit Suisse Appoints Co-Head for Oil & Gas
Tim Perry, global co-head of oil and gas, Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse reports that Tim Perry has been appointed global co-head of oil and gas investment banking within the bank’s investment banking and capital markets division, effective at the new year.
Perry will be co-head with Osmar Abib, who has led this group since 2011, Credit Suisse says in a statement, which notes that Perry was previously co-head of Credit Suisse’s oil and gas group in the Americas region.
Perry joined Credit Suisse in 1999 and will continue to be based in Houston, per the statement.
Zurich-headquartered Credit Suisse tallies approximately 47,690 employees based in more than 50 countries.
Chamber of Digital Commerce Adds CME Ventures Exec to Board
The Chamber of Digital Commerce has appointed Rumi Morales, who heads CME Ventures, to its board of advisors.
Rumi Morales, head of CME Ventures
CME Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of CME Group, a derivatives marketplace, promotes “institutional adoption of blockchain-based technologies” and makes “minority stake investments in early stage companies that may impact the financial services industry, including digital asset and distributed ledger technologies,” according to a statement.
Before joining CME in 2010, Morales led the Asia-Pacific region business of Goldman Sachs’ Global Markets Institute in Hong Kong, officials say.
The Washington, D.C.-based Chamber of Digital Commerce notes that it is the founder of the Smart Contracts Alliance, the Blockchain Alliance, the Global Blockchain Forum and “many other key industry initiatives.”
Need a Reprint?