Michael Hunstad has been appointed as President of Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM), replacing Daniel Gamba, according to a press release. Hunstad will report to Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Grady. Since joining NTAM in 2012, Hunstad has held a range of senior leadership roles including most recently serving as Global Co-Chief Investment Officer. He also serves on the Asset Management Executive Group, the Investment Policy Committee, and the Risk Committee. Before joining Northern Trust, Hunstad was head of research at Breakwater Capital and head of quantitative asset allocation at Allstate Investments.
Spiros Giannaros has joined Confluence Technologies as Chief Executive Officer, according to a press release. Giannaros brings more than 25 years of leadership experience across the software and FinTech space. Prior to joining Confluence, he served as Executive Vice President at State Street Corporation, most recently as CEO of its Charles River Development company and head of the State Street Alpha Platform. Prior to joining State Street, Giannaros was a Partner at IHS Markit serving as global head of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) and thinkFolio and spent 15 years in leadership positions at Charles River Development spanning sales, account management, and product marketing.
Bullish, an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides market infrastructure and information services, has appointed David LaValle as President, CoinDesk Index & Data, according to a press statement. He joins Bullish after four years at Grayscale Investments, where he served as Senior Managing Director, Global Head of ETFs, responsible for leading the strategic development and management of Grayscale’s ETF business. Prior to that, he was the Chief Executive Officer of global index, data and analytics firm VettaFi.
Fausto Serrano has joined interdealer broker Tradition as North American head of electronic credit brokering, based in New York, the Desk reported. Serrano has more than 20 years of industry experience and was most recently head of fixed income sales and trading for the Americas at Liquidnet. Throughout his career, Serrano has held various senior roles including US head of e-trading at TP ICAP, director of electronic trading at BGC Partners, and vice president of credit derivatives at ICAP Electronic Broking.
Stern Brothers, an independent, private investment bank in the US, has hired Paul Karrlsson-Willis as Senior Managing Director, Head of Institutional Equity Trading, based out of the New York office, according to his post on LinkedIn. Karrlsson-Willis is a seasoned financial services executive with more than 30 years of experience. He started his career at Fidelity, where he spent 25 years in leadership roles building out businesses in everything from International Trading to US Institutional Sales. His experience extends to other senior leadership positions at prominent firms such as StoneX, INTL FC Stone Financial, and Cabrera Capital.
Brandon Laczkowski has been appointed Managing Director, Head of RIA Sales at InspereX, according to a press release. Laczkowski will report to Deryk Rhodes, Managing Director and Head of Wealth Management Solutions. Laczkowski rejoins the firm from HRC Financial Group, where he focused on covering RIAs. He previously worked for InspereX (formerly Incapital) from 2014-2016 as a member of the structured product wholesaling team. Prior to joining HRC Financial Group, Laczkowski spent eight years working at investment banks including Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse.
KKR has hired Adam Selipsky, former Chief Executive Officer of Amazon Web Services (AWS), as a Senior Technology and AI Strategy Advisor to the firm, according to a press release. Selipsky has more than 20 years of executive leadership experience in scaling mission-critical internet infrastructure.
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