FinTech Banker from Goldman Sachs Joins FT Partners
Jeff Haughton, a Goldman Sachs banker who has overseen major initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions of financial technology companies, is the new managing director at investment bank Financial Technology Partners, whose specialty is backing companies that provide technology to the financial services industry, officials say. While at Goldman Sachs, Haughton served as an advisor on the record-setting $18 billion Visa IPO, the $2 billion sale of CyberSource to Visa, and the $4.4 billion sale of CheckFree to Fiserv, officials say. He was also involved in the acquisition of Authorize.net by CyberSource, the spin-off of First American Financial Corporation from CoreLogic, financing Solera’s acquisition of Explore, PayPal’s acquisition of Verisign’s payment gateway and the IPOs of Blackhawk Network, Performant Financial, Higher One, Financial Engines, Solera and many others.
Haughton specialized in the financial technology sector at Goldman Sachs for almost 15 years where his most recent position was as managing director and co-head of its global financial technology group, officials say. Financial Technology Partners LP and FTP Securities were established in 2001 by Steve McLaughlin. Haughton will be based in San Francisco.
SS&C Board Adds Former Head of IBM Global Services
Investment software and services provider SS&C Technologies has added the recently retired Michael Daniels, a former senior vice president of global technology services for IBM Global Services, to its board of directors, officials say.
Daniels, who worked at IBM for 36 years, led the go-to-market and business line management for IBM’s offerings in strategic outsourcing, integrated technology services, small and medium business services, maintenance and IBM Global Financing, officials say. Daniels retired from his position as head of IBM Global Services in March.
Electra Names Head of London Office
New York-based Electra Information Systems, a vendor of post-trade data aggregation, reconciliation, settlements and fee billing, has opened an office in London in response to Electra’s growing client base in the EMEA region, officials say. The office will be headed by industry veteran, Andrew Kaufmann, managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, officials say.
Kaufmann, who will drive sales and business development and provide local support for clients in the region, will report to John Landry, CEO of Electra.
Before joining Electra, Kaufmann spent five years as vice president of Viteos Fund Services, where he oversaw the firm’s EMEA expansion, officials say. He has also held executive positions at several financial technology vendors such as Traiana, SS&C Technologies, Investment Technology Group and SunGard. He began his career in 1986 with Bankers Trust.
ConvergEx Hires from Citi and BofA Merrill Lynch
ConvergEx Group, a provider of global brokerage and trading-related services, has hired Oliver Bailly as a senior vice president and head of its exchange traded funds desk, and Miguel Ruiz as a senior vice president on its global portfolio desk, officials say.
Previously, Bailly was a director and head of Citigroup ETF Create/Redeem trading desk and he covered institutional clients on Citi’s Program desk, officials say. Prior to that, Bailly spent eight years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch with primary responsibility for ETF creation/redemption as part of the non-dollar portfolio sales group. He also had responsibility for international portfolio sales.
Ruiz was previously with XP Securities, whose parent company, XP Investimentos, is an independent broker in Brazil, officials say. Prior to that, Ruiz worked for Merrill Lynch, both in New York and Mexico City. After returning to New York, he was a vice president in non-dollar equities. Ruiz was also a director in the non-dollar portfolio group of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he spent 10 years in the Latin America ADR Portfolio Trading/Sales Trading group.
Based in New York, Bailly and Ruiz will report to James Bossert and Sean Wagner, co-heads of ConvergEx’s Global Portfolio and ETF Execution business, officials say.
Multex Founder Moves to Scivantage
Jim Tousignant, the co-founder and former president of brokerage research provider Multex, has joined Scivantage as executive
vice president of sales and business development for the vendor of online brokerage, tax and portfolio reporting and wealth management applications, officials say.
In his new role, Tousignant will oversee Scivantage’s sales and business development worldwide, and will lead the company’s market expansion in the financial services technology market, officials say.
In addition to founding Multex, Tousignant held senior positions at Thomson Financial where he was a managing director responsible for global sales and at Morgan Stanley where he served as executive vice president, business development and e-commerce, officials say. Tousignant will be based in Jersey City, N.J., and will report to Adnane Charchour, Scivantage CEO.
KNEIP Opens Software Development Center in Brussels
In a strategic move, KNEIP, a service provider to fund managers, has opened a center for software development in Brussels, which is closer to critical stakeholders for European fund management, officials say. The new building on Avenue Louise will bring the company closer to regulatory authorities, suppliers and clients and provides the space to upgrade existing infrastructure.
The move into new offices reflects the emergence of Belgium as a key hub for the European asset management industry, say company officials. KNEIP will be closer to the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA), the Financial Services Markets Authority (FSMA), and several other regulatory bodies based in Belgium. KNEIP’s offerings focus on the production and disclosure of legal, regulatory and contractual information.
Headquartered in Luxembourg, KNEIP has other offices in Frankfurt, Paris, Lausanne and London.
Misys Hires A-P Sales Director from Oracle
Misys, a vendor of banking, treasury, trading and risk management solutions, has appointed Chris Curtis as its new regional sales director for Asia-Pacific to oversee new business development and client relationships across the Asia region, officials say. Curtis spent a decade at relational database and systems giant Oracle’s financial services business.
At Oracle, Curtis was Oracle’s vice president of the banking global business team, responsible for the go-to-market strategy and sales of the firm’s banking applications, officials say. Curtis will work out of Misys’ regional headquarters in Singapore.
Misys operates 17 offices in Asia, including three development centers, officials say. Approximately one-third of the vendor’s new clients signed in the past year are based in Asia.
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