Thomson Reuters has named Ralf Roth as global head of Elektron Transactions and Strategy for the Enterprise Solutions business, reporting to Jon Robson, president of Enterprise Solutions.
Roth joins Thomson Reuters from Deutsche Bank, where he was responsible for product innovation and delivery for algorithmic and high frequency trading, analytics, execution and order management as well as low latency infrastructure and compliance. Previously he served as chief infrastructure officer for Global Prime Finance at the bank, managing the infrastructure to support their prime brokerage franchise.
Roth will initially focus on advancing Thomson Reuters Elektron Trading Solutions, bringing together applications, data and infrastructure to support integrated trading systems targeted at specific customer requirements. This includes access to infrastructure to support pre-trade price discovery, order and execution management, trading and risk management systems.
Commenting on Roths appointment, Robson said: The Enterprise Solutions business continues to outperform our expectations and adding Ralf to the team reinforces our commitment to delivering industry leading solutions that provide strategic value for our customers.
(JDC)