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ON THE MOVE: Gamble to ITG in Canada

Traders Magazine Online News, January 3, 2019

John D'Antona Jr.

Jeff Gamble joins Canada's Independent Trading Group, a market making firm, as Managing Director, Issuer Services in Canada. He came from Jones Trading where he served for three years as Vice President in Sales Trading. Before that he was a Director at ITG Canada Institutional trading group for almost six years. Earlier, Gamble was Head of Institutional Sales Trading at Versant Partners.

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Digital Asset, a provider of distributed ledger technology (DLT), announced that Blythe Masters, the company’s CEO since 2015, has requested to step down as CEO for personal reasons. AG Gangadhar, who joined the company’s Board of Directors in April, has been appointed the Board Chairman and will serve as the acting CEO until a permanent CEO is named. Masters will remain involved in the company as a board member, strategic advisor and shareholder. 

corfinancial, a leading provider of specialist software and services to the financial services sector, named  David Veal as Senior Executive – Client Solutions. Veal specializes in middle office operations and technology, with nearly 30 years’ experience in solution delivery.  Prior to this, he worked as a Senior Executive – Strategy and Product Management for salerio, supporting the strategic development of salerio (the post-trade confirmation, matching, settlement and tracking solution), as well as working on new business development. Also, he spent eleven years as a founder, Chief Operating Officer and Principal Consultant at Pentagon Consulting, a management consultancy specialising in investment management technology. Veal was also Assistant Director of Operations at Rothschild Asset Management for ten years.

Alter Domus, a fully integrated Fund and Corporate services provider, reported Chief Executive Officer Laurent Vanderweyen has left the business to pursue other opportunities. Aidan Connolly, Chief Financial Officer, has assumed the role of interim Chief Executive Officer of the Alter Domus Group as of December 5, until a permanent successor is appointed. Laurent will assist in an orderly transition of his responsibilities over the coming months.

Exchange IronX onboarded to its Advisory Board Paolo Tasca, Executive Director of the Centre for Blockchain Technologies, and Tal Cohen, ex-CEO of Sirin Labs. Both appointments coincide with IronX's recent IRX token sale extension, which is now running until January 15, 2019. Tasca is a digital economist, specializing in P2P financial systems. He served as special advisor on blockchain technologies for the EU Parliament and the United Nations. Tasca is a serial entrepreneur in the blockchain space and is also the Founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Blockchain Technologies (UCL CBT) at University College London. Before that role, he was the Lead Economist on digital currencies and P2P financial systems at Deutsche Bundesbank (Frankfurt).

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