Kepler Cheuvreux’s execution sales specialist Cherry Albon is set to join Berenberg next year, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Albon has been appointed associate director, senior sales for EMEA electronic trading and program trading, set to join the firm in February next year. She will report to global head of electronic trading and distribution, Jason Rand. Albon, who has been with Kepler for four years, has had an extensive career in execution sales. Prior to joining Kepler in 2019 she spent two years at Mirabaud Securities as a senior execution advisor, also serving under Rand prior to his move to Berenberg. Previously in her career, she spent three and a half years as a cash equity broker at Tullett Prebon. She began her career at Newedge in a cash equity trading and sales role.
Former head of market services and digital at Euronext, Eglantine Desautel, has been selected to head up the European consolidated tape efforts. Desautel has been selected as chief executive officer of EuroCTP – the European initiative to establish a consolidated tape in Europe. Desautel takes up the role after over a decade with Euronext, serving most recently as its head of market services and digital, as well as previously serving as head of its Optiq programme. She originally joined NYSE Euronext in 2011 as its deputy chief of staff to the president and deputy chief executive.
Adrian Ip has been named chief strategy officer at Aquis Exchange, having most recently served as managing director at Aquis Technologies. Ip joined the exchange back in 2017, initially as director of product management & technology sales – a role he held until May 2022. He has previously held senior roles across various businesses, including: Wccftech, FireDrake Consulting, Thomson Reuters, and Horizon Software.
Trading Technologies (TT) made three new appointments to its senior leadership team, including chief operating officer; executive vice president of fixed income; and executive vice president of futures and options – all of which will join the firm on 1 January 2024. Justin Llewellyn-Jones has been appointed chief operating officer, joining from Broadridge where he most recently served as chief product officer and head of capital markets, North America (equities, FX and derivatives). Meanwhile, Christopher Heffernan has been appointed executive vice president of fixed income, bringing over two decades worth of experience in fixed income sales and trading, business development and leadership roles. Heffernan will join from Flow Traders, where he has been head of fixed income sales since 2019. Elsewhere, Alun Green will join TT as executive vice president of futures and options, responsible for expanding the firm’s core futures and options franchise. Green joins from Fidelity Information Service (FIS), where he served as managing director, derivatives utility for the past eight years, following the firm’s acquisition of SunGard in 2015.
Dariush Mirfendereski has been appointed head of inflation trading as part of MUFG’s rates trading team. In his new role, he will be responsible for “enhancing overall product capability and expanding MUFG’s financial institutions business with a focus on distributing risk to end users”. Mirfendereski has an extensive career history in the inflation trading sphere and joins MUFG after most recently heading up the division globally at HSBC for nearly 10 years until 2022. Previously he spent seven and a half years at UBS Investment Bank as global head of inflation linked trading and eight years at Barclays as head of inflation derivatives trading.