Dash Financial Technologies, NEX Group and CloudMargin also People Moves announcements
New CMO to Lead Global Strategies for Broadridge
Broadridge Financial Solutions has appointed Deborah A. Bussière as global chief marketing officer (CMO), effective May 8, a post that she held at Grayscale Investments, officials say.
In her role, Bussière will direct Broadridge’s global marketing functions, including execution of the company’s brand strategy, product marketing efforts, corporate communications, and digital and social media marketing, officials say. She will report to Chris Perry, president of global sales, marketing and client solutions, Broadridge.
“As Broadridge celebrates its ten-year anniversary as a public company in 2017, Deborah is well suited to play a significant role in driving revenue, relationships and reputation as we look to future growth opportunities over the next decade,” Perry says in a statement.
Broadridge officials say that Bussière has nearly two decades of financial services experience and, most recently, she served as interim CMO for several financial technology firms including Grayscale Investments, which focuses on digital currency investing, officials say.
Before Grayscale, she was CMO for EY, a role in which she directed strategy, vision and execution for all marketing, communications, digital and social media, public relations and client event functions across the Americas, officials say.
Bussière also held senior roles at EY including leading the global financial services marketing team and acting as the Americas financial services business development operations leader.
Dash Financial Technologies Names CFO
Ari House, CFO, Dash Financial Technologies
Dash Financial Technologies reports the appointment of Ari House as chief financial officer (CFO).
House joins from the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), where he served as chief financial and corporate development officer, Dash says in a statement.
“During his tenure at ACAMS, he was instrumental in managing the firm’s significant growth and eventual acquisition by Becker Professional Education, a subsidiary of DeVry Education Group,” officials say. Before that post, House served as director of financial planning and analysis / corporate development for Fortent, a provider of anti-money laundering compliance software solutions that was acquired by Nice Systems.
Dash Financial Technologies characterizes itself as a “trading technology provider to the institutional trading community,” and says that it “designs and delivers intelligent, high performance solutions in four product categories: Trading Technologies, Execution Services, Analytics and Regulatory Technologies.”
NEX Group Relocates Offices in New York and London
NEX Group, a financial technology company, reports that it will be relocating both its New York and London offices.
Beginning at the end of April, the NEX businesses in New York will move to new offices at 4 Times Square, a building in midtown formerly known as the Condé Nast building.
NEX will occupy 82,400 square feet in the Durst Organization-owned skyscraper.
The new office will “bring all of NEX’s New York businesses under one roof for the first time and will allow the company to be located closer to its clients,” NEX says in a statement.
In addition, NEX is in what it calls “advanced negotiations with Ashurst,” an international law firm based in London, to lease 115,000 square feet of office space in the London Fruit and Wool Exchange, a redeveloped historic complex in east London, for its headquarters there.
NEX expects that the move from its current offices in Broadgate, a historic redevelopment in the City of London, will take place in early 2019.
CloudMargin Appoints Sales Execs in New York & London
Laurence Jones, sales executive, CloudMargin
CloudMargin, a specialist in Web-based collateral and margin management, reports that Laurence Jones and Marc Desanges have joined as sales executives, in New York and London, respectively.
Jones brings 12 years of experience in operations management across collateral, clearing and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, CloudMargin says, while Desanges, a 10-year veteran based in London, is in charge of business development for French-speaking countries and southern Europe.
Jones joins from the London Clearing House (LCH), where he served for the last two years of his six-year stint as head of collateral
Marc Desanges, sales executive, CloudMargin
operations for both London and New York, per CloudMargin, which adds that he “previously worked in operations on the design, launch and build-out of the LCH FX clearing service, ForexClear, managing its operations in London and New York.”
From 2012, Desanges was head of business development in the EMEA region for SunGard, and in 2015, he became the sales manager, EMEA, for FIS, says CloudMargin, which also notes that at FIS, Desanges led the business development group selling risk and compliance software for the Florida-based financial technology provider.
Beginning in 2016, Desanges was a sales executive for Lombard Risk, in charge of its collateral management solution, CloudMargin says.
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