Ocorian, the C.I.-based administrator, has appointed Craig Buick and Yegor Lanovenko as co-chief executive officers, subject to regulatory approval. They replace Chantal Free, who joined in 2023. Buick joined Ocorian in 2024 as CFO and Lanovenko joined in 2021 and was most recently co-head of the fund services business.
Category: People
Saphyre hires new COO
Saphyre has hired Damian Handzy as COO. Prior to joining Saphyre, he was managing director of analytics at Confluence Technologies, where he led the performance, risk and reporting businesses. He replaces Ray Shivers, who joined in 2022 from BlackRock. He will take on a new role as chief partnership officer, focused on expanding and strengthening…
Gen II upgrades waterfall solutions
Gen II has appointed Beverly Shealy as head of waterfall solutions. She was previously at J.P. Morgan. Gen II has signed a long-term licensing agreement with S7 Fund Ops, a provider of automated waterfall solutions for private capital funds.
Langham Hall appoints head of Lux
Langham Hall, the UK-based administrator, has appointed Elijah Kanevskiy as head of Luxembourg, He joins from Revantage Europe, a Blackstone Group portfolio company, where he was CFO.
U.S. Bank hires from BNY
Sophia Long has joined U.S. Bank as senior product manager in Europe for its global fund services business, based in Dublin. She was previously at BNY.
Pielow returns to Taskize
Taskize, the investment operations collaboration platform owned by Euroclear, has hired Ben Pielow as senior sales executive. Most recently, he was director of strategic accounts at Genesis Global, a software application development business backed by Bank of America, BNY and Citi.
Apex appoints chief strategy officer
Apex has appointed Jay Cipriano as chief strategy officer, a newly created role. He will report to Apex CEO, Peter Hughes. He joins from SEI, where he spent 28 years.
Sheller joins Juniper Square
Jason Sheller has joined Juniper Square as global head of go-to-market fund administration. Sheller spent seven years at CBRE, and is based in New York.
Apex appoints LATAM head
Apex has appointed Mauricio Catâneo as regional head, Latin America. He was most recently Brazil country head at TMF Group.
NTRS appoints Canada country head
Northern Trust has appointed Katie Pries as country executive for Northern Trust’s asset servicing business in Canada, based in Toronto. Pries previously served as president and CEO of Northern Trust Canada from 2020 to 2025. She succeeds Jeff Alexander, who has left Northern Trust to pursue other opportunities.