Sterling Commerce says Jeanne Baker, the company's vice president of technology, has been elected chairman of the board of the Business Process Management Initiative organisation (BPMI.org), an international association that aims to promote and develop the use of Business Process
City of London law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has hired hedge, mutual, private equity and real estate funds expert Simon Firth to its funds practice group. Firth's experience covers funds structuring, formation and promotion, principally of hedge funds and
XcitekSolutionsPlus has appointed Adrian Gray as Senior Client Administrator to the client services team in the London office. Gray will have responsibility for providing client production support and managing implementations of the XSP software at client sites in Europe. Gray
The Bank of New York has appointed Jim McAuliffe as managing director with responsibility for European sales of foreign exchange and derivatives. McAuliffe, who will manage a European team of 16 foreign exchange and derivatives salesmen, has worked at BNY
Robert Mills, 30, has joined the Securities Industry Association (SIA) research department as vice president, director of industry research. Mills will contribute to the department's publications, including Research Reports and Securities Industry Trends, and supply economic research to support the
Beauchamp Financial Technology (BFT) has appointed Siva Subramaniam to its Hong Kong office as Regional Head of Sales for Asia Pacific. Subramaniam joins BFT from the Galleon Group, a hedge fund manager in New York, where he was Chief Information
Royalblue, the provider of the Fidessa set of trading, market data and global connectivity systems, has appointed Carla Hegly as Fidessa sales director for continental Europe, based in Paris. Carla Hegly, who joined the company in July, brings a wealth
Justin Haque, formerly head of equity global sales trading at Commerzbank, joins Cardinal to launch its multi strategy equity hedge fund.
The Bank of New York (BNY) has made two additions to its global transition management team in London Clare Few as vice president, product manager and Jane Burnell as vice president, transition manager. Few will be responsible for client relationship
R & M Consultants has recruited Liz Hill, formerly of PIMCO Europe and before that Salomon Brothers Investment Management, to manage global custody and other survey projects. Richard Hogfslesh, founder and managing director of R & M Consultants, says that,