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Wellesley Hills Financial Announces Transformational Expansion

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

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  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240229574200/en/
    Eddie Galvan, Ivan Martinez & David Gutterman (Photo: Wellesley Hills Financial)
    Galvan is a seasoned fintech professional and advisor for fintech, payments, and tech-enabled businesses, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategy, and finance.
  • Wellesley Hills Financial is also onboarding a banking team in mainland Europe for EU and UK coverage.
  • This expansion is a transformational event for our firm.”
    Focused on accelerated growth, Wellesley Hills Financial also announced the establishment of its first class of Executive Advisors, a duo of industry heavyweights which will help expand the firm’s exposure, further attest to its credibility, and unlock new business opportunities.
  • Rawls, Partner and Executive Director of Wellesley Hills Financial.

Laureate Education, Inc. Announces Appointment of Chief Legal Officer

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Monday, March 4, 2024

MIAMI, March 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Laureate Education, Inc. (NASDAQ: LAUR) (the "Company") today announced the appointment of Leslie Brush as Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Secretary, effective April 1, 2024.

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  • MIAMI, March 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Laureate Education, Inc. (NASDAQ: LAUR) (the "Company") today announced the appointment of Leslie Brush as Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Secretary, effective April 1, 2024.
  • Ms. Brush previously served as Laureate's Deputy General Counsel and Secretary, and prior to that as Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, and Secretary.
  • Reporting to Laureate's President and Chief Executive Officer, Eilif Serck-Hanssen, Ms. Brush will be responsible for Laureate's legal operations, legal strategy, corporate governance, corporate compliance, regulatory matters, and ethics and compliance.
  • Before joining Laureate in 2019, Ms. Brush served as Chief Governance Officer, Vice President-Legal, and Secretary for software and solutions services company SunGard Data Systems (now part of FIS) for over 20 years.

VAKT, the leading post trade platform for energy announces their new CEO, Tasja Botha

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Friday, February 2, 2024

LONDON, Feb. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- VAKT Holdings Ltd ("VAKT"), a leader in the provision of energy post trade technology services, is pleased to announce the appointment of Tasja Botha as its new CEO.

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  • LONDON, Feb. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- VAKT Holdings Ltd ("VAKT"), a leader in the provision of energy post trade technology services, is pleased to announce the appointment of Tasja Botha as its new CEO.
  • Most recently Tasja served as CEO of Quor Group, a leader in commodities trading and risk management technology (CTRM).
  • As CEO, Tasja will oversee VAKT's operations and spearhead its mission to digitalize inefficient and costly post trade processes.
  • VAKT is a post trade processing platform for energy transactions.

VAKT, the leading post trade platform for energy announces their new CEO, Tasja Botha

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Friday, February 2, 2024

LONDON, Feb. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- VAKT Holdings Ltd ("VAKT"), a leader in the provision of energy post trade technology services, is pleased to announce the appointment of Tasja Botha as its new CEO.

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  • LONDON, Feb. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- VAKT Holdings Ltd ("VAKT"), a leader in the provision of energy post trade technology services, is pleased to announce the appointment of Tasja Botha as its new CEO.
  • Most recently Tasja served as CEO of Quor Group, a leader in commodities trading and risk management technology (CTRM).
  • As CEO, Tasja will oversee VAKT's operations and spearhead its mission to digitalize inefficient and costly post trade processes.
  • VAKT is a post trade processing platform for energy transactions.

Arcons onboards Greenwich Investments for SaaS trading & billing systems

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Friday, January 12, 2024

SAN CARLOS, Calif., Jan. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcons Technology, Inc.® announced completion of integration with Clearwater Analytics® for the express goal of enabling client billing, equities and fixed income trading as well as financial information exchange (FIX) integration with SunGard. With this integration, Greenwich can use Arcons' SaaS platform 'Portfolio Edge' for their performance reporting, revenue computation as well as for their day-to-day trading for hundreds of portfolios with a total valuation nearing $500 million.

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  • With this integration, Greenwich can use Arcons' SaaS platform 'Portfolio Edge' for their performance reporting, revenue computation as well as for their day-to-day trading for hundreds of portfolios with a total valuation nearing $500 million.
  • Since we liked using Arcons billing solution, we requested them to provide us a SaaS solution fully integrated with Clearwater.
  • The Arcons team delivered on its promise during our time critical implementation phase with Clearwater," said Heather Sevillano, Director and COO at Greenwich.
  • Nydia Concepcion, head trader at Greenwich liked the Arcons trading solution.

Trading Technologies taps three experienced capital markets business leaders for new senior management roles, effective Jan. 1

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Monday, December 4, 2023

CHICAGO, Dec. 4, 2023  /PRNewswire/ -- Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global capital markets technology platform provider, announced today that the firm has appointed three industry leaders – each with decades of relevant experience – to key new posts on its leadership team. Joining on Jan. 1, 2024 will be Justin Llewellyn-Jones as Chief Operating Officer (COO), Christopher Heffernan as EVP Fixed Income and Alun Green as EVP Futures & Options.

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  • As COO, Llewellyn-Jones will lead all of the firm's market-facing business to drive its multi-asset growth, in collaboration with the heads of each business line.
  • Heffernan will focus on building TT's global fixed income business, while Green will focus on expanding the company's core futures and options franchise.
  • Heffernan has over two decades of fixed income experience in sales and trading, business development, and leadership roles.
  • Over the last decade, he helped build two fixed income trading businesses, with focuses on electronic and algorithmic trading, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and portfolio trading.

Trading Technologies taps three experienced capital markets business leaders for new senior management roles, effective Jan. 1

Retrieved on: 
Monday, December 4, 2023

CHICAGO, Dec. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global capital markets technology platform provider, announced today that the firm has appointed three industry leaders – each with decades of relevant experience – to key new posts on its leadership team. Joining on Jan. 1, 2024 will be Justin Llewellyn-Jones as Chief Operating Officer (COO), Christopher Heffernan as EVP Fixed Income and Alun Green as EVP Futures & Options.

Key Points: 
  • As COO, Llewellyn-Jones will lead all of the firm's market-facing business to drive its multi-asset growth, in collaboration with the heads of each business line.
  • Heffernan will focus on building TT's global fixed income business, while Green will focus on expanding the company's core futures and options franchise.
  • Heffernan has over two decades of fixed income experience in sales and trading, business development, and leadership roles.
  • Over the last decade, he helped build two fixed income trading businesses, with focuses on electronic and algorithmic trading, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and portfolio trading.

Qrypt Appoints FS-ISAC CEO, Steven Silberstein, to Board of Advisors

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Qrypt , the pioneering quantum-secure encryption company, today announced Steven Silberstein, the CEO of FS-ISAC (the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center), is joining its Board of Advisors.

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  • Qrypt , the pioneering quantum-secure encryption company, today announced Steven Silberstein, the CEO of FS-ISAC (the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center), is joining its Board of Advisors.
  • “It is an incredible honor to serve on the Advisory Board of Qrypt, a company at the forefront of quantum security,” said Silberstein.
  • Our critical infrastructure must start preparing for a post-quantum world and Qrypt is solving for this today.
  • “Steven will be integral in helping Qrypt protect an industry vital to the U.S. economy and the privacy of its many users through quantum security.

Daniel Viola Joins Seward & Kissel’s Investment Management Group as Head of SKRC

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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Seward & Kissel LLP announced today that Daniel G. Viola has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Investment Management Group to act as Head of the firm’s innovative regulatory platform, SKRC.

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  • Seward & Kissel LLP announced today that Daniel G. Viola has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Investment Management Group to act as Head of the firm’s innovative regulatory platform, SKRC.
  • “Daniel brings decades of experience advising investment advisers, their funds, and broker-dealers with respect to regulatory matters,” said Seward & Kissel managing partner Jim Cofer .
  • “We are delighted that Daniel is joining us to lead SKRC,” said Pat Poglinco and Rob Van Grover , co-heads of Seward & Kissel’s Investment Management Group.
  • Viola regularly speaks on Blockchain and current regulatory issues impacting the investment management industry.

Synopsys Appoints Jill Larsen as Chief People Officer

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Monday, July 31, 2023

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS ) today announced that Jill Larsen has joined the company as Chief People Officer, responsible for leading the Synopsys People and Workplace Resources organization.

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  • SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS ) today announced that Jill Larsen has joined the company as Chief People Officer, responsible for leading the Synopsys People and Workplace Resources organization.
  • The market leader in its field, Synopsys enables today's advances in global computing, artificial intelligence and next-generation silicon technology.
  • Larsen joins Synopsys from PTC, a $2B public industrial software company where she led a business, cultural and talent transformation as Chief People Officer.
  • Prior to PTC, Larsen served as a Chief People Officer and C-suite executive in global public and private companies, including Medidata, Cisco, EMC and SunGard.