Green Impact Exchange (GIE) has appointed Maria Mähl as Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President, according to a press release. As a member of the GIX Executive Team, Mähl will report directly to Daniel Labovitz, CEO of GIX. Mähl is a sustainability executive and technology business builder who has focused the past 15 years of her career on driving the sustainability transition and scaling growth companies. Most recently, Mähl served as Partner and Head of ESG Solutions USA at ESG Book. She previously held leadership roles at Arabesque AI Asset Management and the Clinton Global Initiative.
State Street has promoted Chris Pizzotti to Executive Vice President, Global Head of FX Sales and Trading at State Street, according to his LinkedIn. He is responsible for the strategic direction and execution of the FX Sales and Trading franchise within State Street Markets, overseeing all trading functions and client engagement. Prior to that, he was Senior Managing Director, Global Head of FX Voice Trading, a role he had for over five years.
ING has appointed Maarten Koning as global head of Private Markets, effective February 1, 2026. Koning will transition from his current role as global head of Trade & Commodities Finance (TCF). In this role he was responsible for the global TCF activities with teams in Amsterdam, Geneva, New York, Houston, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai. His strong track record in the Commodities, Food and Agribusiness and the Wholesale Bank’s cross-border and cross-functional expertise has helped grow the business area substantially over the past years. The search for a successor of the role of global head of TCF is ongoing.
Northern Trust has appointed Eric Freedman as Chief Investment Officer for the Wealth Management business, according to a press statement. Freedman succeeds Katie Nixon, who served with distinction as Chief Investment Officer since 2012. Freedman most recently served as U.S. Bank’s Chief Investment Officer and oversaw the firm’s Asset Management Group. His career includes additional senior roles at asset managers and advisory firms including Goldman Sachs.
Ashish Varshneya has joined Evercore as a senior managing director in the healthcare investment banking group, focused on healthcare technology. According to a press release, he will be based in New York. Varshneya joins Evercore with nearly two decades of healthcare technology investment banking experience. Most recently, he served as a managing director at TripleTree.
Trading Technologies International, a global capital markets technology platform services provider, has expanded its sales team in London with the hiring of Rajiv Shah as Head of Sales, EMEA. Shah, who will lead sales in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), has over 25 years of experience in financial technology, TT said in a press release.
SOLVE, a provider of pre-trade data and predictive pricing for fixed income securities markets, has appointed Chris Fogarty as Senior Vice President, Strategic Account Management, according to a press release. Fogarty brings more than two decades of experience in credit markets and institutional sales leadership. Before joining SOLVE, he served as Managing Director and Head of U.S. Credit & Municipal Sales at UBS Securities.
Bullish, an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides market infrastructure and information services, has hired Jay Yarow as President, CoinDesk Insights. According to a press statement, he joins Bullish after nine years at CNBC, where he served as SVP, Executive Editor Digital, responsible for the vision, strategy and execution of digital business.
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