Category: People

Gen II Fund Services, an independent private capital fund administrator with >USD1trn AuA, has appointed Ray Ferranti as head of Northeast-client services. Ferranti will oversee client services for the Northeast as a regional head, leading the firm’s New York and Boston offices and overseeing the development and delivery of Gen II’s fund administration services. He…

David Claus has joined Edmond de Rothschild as group head, asset servicing, and CEO of EdRAM in Luxembourg. He was previously CEO of European Depositary Bank, which is owned by Apex. In 2023 Edmond de Rothschild entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Luxembourg-based third-party asset servicing activities to Apex, but the deal did…

Pirum, the fintech focused on the securities finance and collateral management sector, has appointed Ben Challice as CEO. Challice re-joined Pirum last year as president & chief of strategy from J.P. Morgan, where he led its trading services business globally.

TMF Group, a Netherlands-based provider of fund and corporate services, has appointed Ramesh Ketti as the global operations and technology director of fund services and capital markets. based in Dubai. He was most recently deputy global head of closed-end operations for Apex.

Apex has appointed Kimberly DeTrask as CFO and Maxwell Johnston as chief business officer (CBO). DeTrask joins from State Street, where she has served for over 12 years, most recently as treasurer. Before joining State Street, she spent more than 14 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where she worked in the risk…

Sonata One, the private funds clearinghouse, has appointed Nikhil Ashra as senior commercial development director, based in New York. He has previously worked at iCapital and Canoe Intelligence. Sonata One connects more than 53,000 investors with 6,500 funds and 180 fund managers globally.