Category: People

Centralis Group, Luxembourg-based provider of alternative investments and outsourced corporate services, has appointed Elizabeth Fitzgibbons as chief commercial officer. She will join the executive committee and report directly to CEO Aidan Foley. Fitzgibbons was previously head of sales for debt and capital markets at Alter Domus. She will be based in the London office.

Apex has appointed Anthony Alfonso as global head of valuation. In this newly created role, he will be responsible for product innovation and service delivery of valuation advisory services. He joins from BDO, the accountancy and advisory firm, where he was most recently global valuation leader in the international capital finance group.

Barry Johnson has joined CBRE, the real estate specialist, as head of investment accounting and reporting for the Americas. He was most recently at State Street, where he was head of real assets servicing. He joined State Street in 2012 to lead the real estate fund services lift-out from Morgan Stanley.

Torstone Technology, a SaaS platform for post-trade securities and derivatives processing, has appointed Sam Farrell as head of North America. Based in Toronto, he will have oversight of all U.S. and Canadian operations for Torstone. Prior to joining Torstone, Farrell spent the last 35 years in Canadian financial services, most recently at Credit Suisse Canada…

Patrycja Dos Santos has joined AssetMetrix as middle office solutions specialist, based in Paris. She has held senior positions at Access Capital Partners, Quilvest Capital Partners, BNP Paribas Asset Management and, most recently, Sienna Private Credit. Based in Germany, AssetMetrix provides front-, middle- and back-office outsourcing solutions for private capital investors. BNP Paribas took a…

Clearwater Analytics, a U.S.-based provider of SaaS-based investment management, accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions, has hired Josef Sommeregger as region head for DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and the Middle East. He joins from SimCorp, where he was managing director for the data and communications business line.

Apex has appointed Rama Sithanen as an independent director and chair of  its companies in Mauritius. Apex companies in Mauritius are Apex Financial Services (Mauritius) Ltd, Apex Fund Services (Mauritius) Ltd and Apex Fund and Corporate Services (Mauritius) Ltd. Sithanen was minister of finance between 1991 and 1995. He was deputy prime minister and minister…