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ON THE MOVE: Liquidnet Adds Conroy; Nenner to Linedata

Traders Magazine Online News, February 20, 2019

John D'Antona Jr.

Liquidnet appointed Brian Conroy as President of Liquidnet. As President, Conroy will work in partnership with CEO and Founder, Seth Merrin, and share the responsibility of providing strategic leadership for the company with a focus on building out new businesses both organically and through acquisition. A market veteran of over 30 years in the financial services industry, he joined Liquidnet from Fidelity International in London where he served as President and was responsible for strategic direction and oversight of the firm's international asset management and distribution businesses across 25 countries. Prior to his time in London, Conroy was President of Fidelity Capital Markets and Global Head of Equity Trading in Boston for FMR. He has also held senior roles at JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, ABN AMRO and SAC LLC. Conroy will be based in New York, reporting directly to the CEO.

Garrett Nenner

Garrett Nenner started a new position as Global Head of Trading Product at Linedata. Prior to this Nenner was Head of Trading Technologies for Evercore Investment Bank/Broker Dealer through Linedata / Gravitas. He also served as Head Trader and PM at the hedge fund Millennium Partners for eight years, where he built the original trading desk and managed a large high-volume quantitative portfolio and its underlying technology. Most recently, he was a Managing Consultant – Institutional Crypto at Omega One.

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Russell Investments has announced that Peter Gunning will remain as Global Chief Investment Officer, a role he assumed on an interim-basis in October 2018. Based in Seattle, Gunning oversees all aspects of the firm’s investment division worldwide, including asset management, implementation and research. In addition to his role as Global Chief Investment Officer, Gunning continues to be responsible for strategic oversight of Russell Investments’ business in the Asia-Pacific region. He will report directly to Chairman and CEO Michelle Seitz.

AKJ Crypto plc, the leading crypto platform and security token issuer for hedge fund managers and institutional investors, promoted Neal Mitra to the role of Chief Executive Officer. Mitra will replace interim CEO and AKJ Group founder Anders Kvamme Jensen, who will remain the company’s Chairman. He originally joined AKJ Crypto in 2018 as its Chief Administrative Officer.  He was previously with Argon Group, an investment bank focused on cryptocurrency and the token-based capital markets.

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