State Street Corporation appointed Jean Franois Courville to head of State Street Canada. In this new role, Courville will be responsible for the development and execution of key strategies working across State Street's investment management, investment servicing and global markets
Sun Microsystems has promoted Leslie Stretch, head of its UK and Ireland operations, to a "global role" at Sun headquarters in California. Trudy Norris Grey from Oracle UK has been selected as successor. Leslie Stretch, Vice President and Managing Director
Chris Brooke, who recently left COR Financial Solutions, has resurfaced at Westchester Associates as a Director within their UK team. Westchester is a corporate finance company with a particular specialism in providing M&A advisory services to technology companies. Brooke takes
Koray Simsek has been appointed assistant professor of finance at Edhec, where he is responsible for teaching classes in financial modelling and quantitative methods in finance. He is also a member of the Edhec Risk and Asset Management Research Centre
The Bank Depository User Group (BDUG) has appointed Ann Hassenplug, Vice President, LaSalle Bank N.A. and R. Scott Nielsen, Treasurer, Deseret Trust Company to serve four year terms on the organization's Steering Committee. The term expirations of Robert Becker, Senior
Barclays Capital has appointed Pari Lake a Director in its Prime Brokerage team. From 14 February 2005 she will be based in London to market hedge fund services, reporting to Michael Brian, Head of Equity Prime Brokerage for Europe. Lake
Misys, the UK based software company, has appointed Al Noor Ramji, Chief Information Officer of BT Group, as a non executive Director. He will join the Misys Board with effect from 1 February 2005. Al Noor Ramji joined BT in
Richard Thompson, currently Head of the Agency Lending Desk at BNP Paribas Securities Services in London, will be taking on a global sales and relationship role for all products offered by the Global Liquidity Services (GLS) division. Thompson will cover
Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) has raised Thomas E. Berk to a partnership. This brings the total number of general partners to 40. Thomas E. Berk, 41, joined BBH in 1995 as the manager of the firm's information systems, and has