In other People Moves, SEC makes changes in the office of the chief accountant and Wall Street Horizon adds to its advisory board.
Euroclear Appoints Mostrey CEO
Lieve Mostrey, CEO, Euroclear
Euroclear has named Lieve Mostrey chief executive officer, effective at the start of the new year.
The appointment follows Tim Howell’s decision to “step down from the group after six years at the helm,” Euroclear says in a statement, which recalls that Mostrey “joined Euroclear in October 2010” as executive director and chief Technology and services officer. He served as a member of the group’s management committee as an executive director of the board, and as the chairperson of several of the groups’ central securities depositories. “Ms. Mostrey also has extensive external Board experience, having served as non-executive director of RealDolmen, Euronext and SWIFT,” officials add.
In addition, Mostrey, an engineer by education, “was a member of the executive committee of BNP Paribas Fortis in Brussels, having earlier begun her career in Générale de Banque, and thereafter Fortis. Ms. Mostrey was also a non-executive director of the board of Euroclear between 2006 and May 2010.”
Belgium-based Euroclear specializes in the provision of post-trade services. It tallies the assets it holds at €27.5 trillion and the total value of securities transactions it settles at over €675 trillion per annum.
SEC Names Panucci Deputy Chief Accountant
The Securities and Exchange Commission reports the appointment of Marc A. Panucci as a deputy chief accountant in the office of the chief accountant.
Panucci will “lead the activities of the office’s professional practice group, which includes understanding investor and audit committee perspectives and consulting with registrants and auditors on the application of internal control over financial reporting obligations, independence requirements and auditing standards,” the SEC says in a statement. The regulator also notes also that he will also “assist the commission in its oversight responsibility for the activities of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).”
Panucci, an industry veteran who returns to the commission after a previous tour there (2007 to 2010), rejoining from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he is a partner in PwC’s national professional services group.
Panucci, also a certified public accountant in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, will replace Brian T. Croteau, per the SEC.
Wall Street Horizon Adds Parker to Advisory Board
Boston-based Wall Street Horizon, a provider of corporate event dates and information for institutional investors and traders, reports that Jeff Parker, a former Thomson Financial chairman and CEO, has joined the firm as an investor and advisory board member. Thomson Financial became part of Thomson Reuters as a result of Thomson’s acquisition of Reuters in 2008. Thomson Reuters offers news, market data services, market data terminals and risk and trading systems to the securities industry.
Parker “founded and served as CEO for several companies in {the financial information and analytics] space,” Wall Street Horizon says, including “Technical Data Corporation, Thomson’s First Call, and CCBN.com (Corporate Communications Broadcast Network), and also served as chairman and CEO of Thomson Financial from 1988 – 1991.”
Parker is also a venture partner with GrandBanks Capital (Boston), chairman of the board of Mainstream Data (Salt Lake City) as well as a board member of several early stage companies, officials say.
Wall Street Horizon’s corporate event datasets include earnings dates, dividend dates, options expiration dates, splits, spinoffs and investor-related conferences, the company notes.
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