Category: People

Mike Webb and Spencer Baum have joined SS&C’s newly created global investor & distribution solutions division. Webb has joined as director of strategic sales to lead workplace and long-term savings business development initiatives in the U.K. and Europe. He will lead U.K. and European sales to financial institutions and employee benefit consultants for SS&C’s global…

State Street has reshuffled its leadership team for State Street Alpha, its open, front-to-back investment servicing platform for institutional and wealth management firms. State Street Alpha provides an outsourced platform across front office solutions, analytics, liquidity, data management, and outsourced middle and back office services. Spiros Giannaros has been named chief executive officer of Charles…

Centaur Fund Services, the Ireland-based administrator, has appointed Louise Lawlor as group chief financial officer. She is based in Dublin. Prior to joining Centaur, Lawlor worked at Key Capital, an Irish wealth, investment and corporate advisory firm, where she advised financial services businesses on mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings and other strategic initiatives.

Sanne, the UK-listed provider of alternative asset and corporate administration services, has appointed Keith Miller as the global head of private debt. Based in London, he will be responsible for building the private debt and loan agency product offering. Miller joins from Global Loan Agency Services Limited and Nomura International Plc. Sanne’s private debt business…

BNP Paribas Securities Services has appointed Akshay Thakurdesai as head of India. BP2S in India offers asset servicing as well as third-party clearing and settlement services for local financial institutions. The bank also acts as a local custodian to foreign investors investing in the country. Thakurdesai, who joined the bank in 2006, was previously COO…

BNY Mellon has appointed Robin Vince as a vice chair and CEO of global market infrastructure. Vince will report to Todd Gibbons, CEO of BNY Mellon, and will join BNY Mellon’s ExCo. He will have oversight of BNY Mellon’s clearance and collateral management, treasury services, markets and Pershing businesses. He joins from Goldman Sachs, where…

Milestone Group, the fund industry fintech firm, has hired Marian Azer as managing director for Asia Pacific, based in Sydney. Reporting to London-based CEO Paul Roberts, Azer will have overall responsibility for market engagement, client success and go-to-market strategy across APAC, with particular emphasis on the Australian and New Zealand markets. Most recently, she was…

Crestbridge, a provider of private equity and real estate administration solutions, has appointed Aaron Bird as associate director of business development. Based in Jersey, Bird is responsible for growth, client acquisition and business development, focusing on mid-cap fund managers in the global private equity and venture capital space. Bird was previously an independent consultant.