Compliance Science Hires from Albridge for CTO Post
George McKevitt, CTO, Compliance Science
George McKevitt has joined Compliance Science (CSI), the provider of governance, risk management and compliance solutions, as chief technology officer.
From 2006 to 2013, he served as chief information officer at Albridge Solutions, an affiliate of BNY Mellon’s Pershing company that provides data aggregation, portfolio accounting and performance reporting to financial services firms.
McKevitt brings nearly 30 years of technology and management experience to CSI, the company says in a statement, and he will be responsible for developing and executing CSI’s technical strategy. He has “deep experience in enterprise architecture and software development for financial services companies,” says Mitchel Kraskin, managing director and co-founder of Compliance Science, in a statement.
At Albridge, McKevitt directed a global team of 275 associates and managed the product development, infrastructure and technical operations for 14 products, according to CSI.
Prior to that, he served as enterprise architect at Teradata, where he led the development of high performance enterprise architectures and enterprise data warehouses. He also worked in technology-focused managerial roles at Eagle Rock Capital, Unicorn, Inc. and Starpoint Solutions, according to the statement.
DTCC Taps Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Others for Board Posts
The DTCC has filled out its board of directors with representatives from Morgan Stanley, TD Ameritrade, KCG Holdings and Goldman Sachs.
The four new members of the post-trade services utility’s board are: Phil Davies, managing director and global head of operations at Morgan Stanley; David R. Kimm, executive vice president, chief risk officer and treasurer at TD Ameritrade; Nick Ogurtsov, chief operating officer and chief risk officer at KCG Holdings; and Paul Walker, global co-head of the technology division at Goldman Sachs.
Currently, there are 20 directors on the DTCC board. Of these, 13 are representatives of clearing agency participants, including international broker/dealers, custodian and clearing banks and investment institutions; three are independent non-participant directors; two are designated by DTCC’s preferred shareholders, NYSE Euronext and FINRA; and the remaining two are DTCC’s executive chairman and its president and CEO.
The board plays an “integral role in the oversight of the firm, ensuring DTCC services continue to meet the evolving needs of its participants while promoting safety and security across the global financial markets,” according to DTCC’s statement. Brief DTCC profiles of the new directors follow:
At Morgan Stanley, Davies oversees all operations support to the institutional securities group and the wealth management and investment management businesses. He is a member of the firm’s management committee, and brings a background in international operations, technology and business management to the DTCC board.
Kimm at TD Ameritrade leads the enterprise-wide risk/control strategies and functions, and has oversight of liquidity, funding and asset/liability management for TDA and its subsidiaries. He also serves as a member of TDA’s senior operating committee, which shapes the organization’s strategic focus.
At KCG Holdings, Ogurtsov leads the firm’s operations and clearing, and manages its strategic and operational risk management framework. This includes the design and implementation of systems and processes to identify, mitigate and assess the firm’s real-time, medium- and long-term risk exposure.
In the technology division at Goldman Sachs, Walker manages the firm’s largest division with more than 8,000 people and oversees the firm’s technology activities around the world, across all business lines. He is responsible for setting Goldman’s technology strategy for all activities of the firm, including risk management, operational risk, and trading, sales, investing and advising.
In addition to the new board members, DTCC also has announced that, after five years of service, Robin Vince, COO and head of the federation for Goldman Sachs’ businesses in EMEA, did not seek re-election at the annual shareholders meeting.
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence Names Americas President
Jim Anderson, president, Americas, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence has named Jim Anderson president for the Americas region.
He will provide oversight, direction and strategy for sales, services and overall operations in the U.S., the company says.
His previous posts include global sales director, unified computing, at Cisco Systems, and vice president, server and storage sales for the public sector, at Dell. Before his tenure at Dell, he was at Hewlett-Packard for 14 years.
Anderson will continue to meet the strong demand for solutions that effectively manage sophisticated financial crime and cyber-attacks, the company says in its statement.
He also will support client relationship management and grow partner and channel initiatives.
Anderson’s “expertise in solving the challenges of complex services and solutions integration make him the ideal addition to the leadership team,” Martin Sutherland, managing director, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, said in the statement.
Spot Trading Elevates Three to Partner Status
Chicago-based proprietary trading firm Spot Trading has added three executives to the firm’s partnership. They are Robin McInerney, Daniel Penley and Aki Nakagawa, who now join Spot’s existing group of 10 partners.
McInerney, CFO since February 2013, joined Spot in 2009 as finance director, controller. She is a certified public accountant with 20 years of experience in finance and accounting. Prior to joining Spot, she served in various roles at R.R. Donnelley beginning in 2001, most recently as the director of accounting, consolidations and external reporting.
Penley, director of algorithmic trading and execution, joined Spot in 2011. He has more than 10 years of trading experience and most recently was a senior equity trader with Greenback Automation.
Nakagawa, who joined Spot in 2007, is a portfolio manager on the firm’s trading team. He joined Spot as a member of the company’s training program.
Rimes Opens Toronto Office
Rimes, a vendor of managed data services for the buy side, has opened an office in Toronto and hired industry veteran Paul Swinhoe in an effort to support its sales efforts in the Canadian marketplace, officials say.
Swinhoe, who has 20 years of financial services technology experience, joins Derrick Thadani, vice president and senior consultant at Rimes, who has been servicing the Canadian market for the past seven years.
Before joining Rimes, Swinhoe held business development roles at SS&C Technologies, TMX Group, StatPro Canada, Star Data Systems and Reuters Canada, working within the Canadian asset and wealth management space delivering middle-office software and market data.
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