Block trading venue Liquidnet has hired Rob Laible as its new head of the Global Performance Team. Laible, a pro with over 20 years of experience, is charged with coordinating the firm’s sales, technology and product development teams across all regions with primary responsibility for leading and driving the marketing, sales, execution, and servicing of Liquidnet’s algorithmic trading services, execution desks and analytics as well as management of its liquidity partner relationships. Prior to this, he was in Hong Kong as head of program trading and electronic execution for Asia at Macquarie Securities. Before that, he was with Nomura where he was head of electronic trading and program trading sales for Asia. Before that, he was head of Lehman Brothers’ prime services origination & electronic trading in Asia.
He also spent a decade at ITG, helping to build the agency broker and technology firm through developing its advanced trading technologies. Based in New York, he reports to John Kelly, Liquidnet’s chief operating officer.
The Hedge Fund Association has appointed Mark McGoldrick and Greg de Spoelberch as regional co-directors of its New York Chapter. McGoldrick and de Spoelberch will lead HFA in the region and help produce member educational programs and events. They will serve alongside McGladrey Partner Sal Shah, Regional Director for both the HFA’s Northeast Chapter and Connecticut Chapter.
McGoldrick, a 17 year veteran, is also a managing director at Concept Capital Markets. Before that, he helped found Alaris Trading Partners, an introducing brokerage in February 2006. Earlier in his career, he worked at UBS Securities in prime brokerage.
de Spoelberch, with 12 years in finance, is also director of marketing and operations at Opalesque, where he started in 2009 as head of product development. He also serves as producer of Opalesque TV, interviewing top executives in the alternative investment industry.
Merus Capital Partners, a proprietary trading firm based in Manhattan, has promoted two senior managing directors, Ryan Rizzo and Patrick Clavin, to the firm’s equity membership. Prior to joining Merus in January 2013 as an international equities trader, Rizzo spent six years as an international equities trader at First New York Securities. In his new role at Merus, Mr. Rizzo will continue to seek market opportunities while working to grow the global event-driven platform.
Clavin, with over ten years of experience working in the value and event-driven investment areas of asset management, started his career at Morgan Stanley. He also spent seven years working in the hedge fund industry as a senior member of the Greenwich Investment Partners event-driven team, leaving to run a portfolio for Pandion Capital, a New York based proprietary trading firm.
