There’s a new head of markets across the Pond at R.J. O’Brien’s U.K. affiliate.
The independent futures brokerage and clearing firm based in the United States, announced the appointment of industry veteran Paul Goodhew as a senior vice president and head of global markets at its London-based affiliate. In this role, Goodhew, a 27 year veteran, will focus on expanding the operation’s institutional commodity brokerage business, including energy, as well as fixed income, rates and equity derivatives.
Goodhew has spent his entire career in futures, most recently for nearly eight years as executive director and head of exchange-traded commodities for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at UBS Ltd. Before that, he was head of energy futures at ABN Amro for two years.
Goodhew began his career in 1987 as a clerk and then broker and trader on the floor of the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE), working for Union Discount Company of London PLC, where he was soon named the firm’s youngest-ever assistant manager. He subsequently spent nine years as an independent futures broker and trader at both LIFFE and the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), specializing in all of the financial, equity and energy products trading on those exchanges.
He also served from 2009 until 2014 as a member of the Exchange Council for the European Energy Exchange (EEX).
