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Parimala Pakalapati, a financial technology executive with more than a decade of fintech and startup experience, has been appointed director of engineering of MPOWER Financing.
Pakalapati will oversee the company’s global engineering team, drive technology initiatives and work closely with internal and external stakeholders to establish technology solutions at a business and technical level.
“Parimala brings a wealth of knowledge in the fintech and startup spaces to MPOWER Financing and will help develop a clear vision for the company as we continue to explore new technology paths,” says Manu Smadja, CEO and co-founder of MPOWER Financing. “Her passion for
OakNorth has appointed Amir Nooriala, former MD of BGC Partners, as its Chief Operating Officer.
After graduating with a degree in Computer Science from the University of Nottingham, Amir Nooriala spent four years working in California for Cisco Systems as a system engineer, before returning to the UK to work for Accenture in its Global Technology Consulting division. In 2006, he joined Barclays Investment Bank, leaving a decade later as a Director running its Regulatory Technology divisions. Whilst there, he architected a programme whereby the operations and technology teams were combined into a single holistic service, enabling them to streamline
Aurelius Equity Opportunities, a pan-European mid-market investor, has made changes to its Executive Board.
From 1 August 2018, Donatus Albrecht will look after the group-wide M&A strategy of all business areas of the Aurelius Group and will step down from the Executive Board of the listed Aurelius Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA. Matthias Täubl, who has already been with Aurelius since 2008, will join the Executive Board with responsibility for operations at the same time.
These personnel changes are in response to the significant increase in the size of the Aurelius Group in recent years, which now has
International law firm Simmons & Simmons has opened for business in Dublin, having always had close links with the Irish funds industry.
Simmons & Simmons says that Ireland has been the fastest growing major fund domicile in Europe over the last five years, a tangible reflection of the benefits the Dublin office can offer the firm’s clients.
Simmons & Simmons is aiming to establish a ten-partner, 40-person practice within the next three years, supporting its asset management and financial institution clients across the breadth of their operations, including investment funds, regulatory, banking, capital markets, tax and corporate. The firm has
Coinsilium Group Limited, a financer of early-stage blockchain technology companies, has appointed Malcolm Burne as a project advisor to TerraStream, its Gibraltar-registered wholly-owned subsidiary, with immediate effect.
Burne has a long-standing career in financial markets in the UK, Australia and Canada including directorships of a number of listed mining companies. He has led various successful natural resource ventures and has also built Ambrian Capital Plc into London’s premier natural resource broker at the time. He is currently Founder Chairman of Golden Prospect Precious Metals, a closed-end fund, and advisor to Altus Strategies and Arlington Group Asset Management.
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Mercia Fund Managers has expanded its equity team with the appointment of Matt Molyneux as Investment Manager.
A chartered accountant with 12 years’ experience in finance, Molyneux joins from BDO in Manchester, where he spent seven years in the transaction services team providing due diligence to private equity firms.
In his new role, he will be based at Mercia’s Manchester office as part of the EV Growth team, focused on investing in high-growth SMEs across the UK. Molyneux will be responsible for sourcing and completing investments and advising portfolio companies. His appointment follows the closing of the GBP45.1 million
Technology, media and communications global investment bank Drake Star Partners has hired two new partners to strengthen its US senior team in both its New York and San Francisco offices.
Kevin Berry joins the firm’s San Francisco office as a Partner, Business Development. Juan Mejia joins the firm’s New York office as a Partner.
Berry has more than 25 years of experience in the investment banking and financial services industry. Prior to Drake Star, he was a Vice President in Houlihan Lokey’s Technology-Media-Telecom team, where he was responsible for originating some of the group’s marquee transactions.
Mejia brings more
AMP Capital has appointed Malcolm Brown as a Senior Principal in its Global Infrastructure Equity business in London, marking the continued growth of its global real assets capability.
Brown was formerly Chief Executive of Angel Trains, the UK’s largest rolling-stock company. AMP Capital manages a majority stake in Angel Trains on behalf of investors in its Global Infrastructure Equity strategy. In addition to this role, Brown has acted as a Senior Advisor to AMP Capital’s infrastructure business since 2015.
David Rees, Global Co-Head of Asset Management, AMP Capital, says: “Having worked closely with Malcolm for several years through our
Law firm Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) has appointed Lisa Phelan as a partner in the firm’s Global Antitrust Law Practice and Investigations + White Collar Group based in Washington DC.
For the last 16 years, Phelan has been Chief of the National Criminal Enforcement and Washington Criminal I Sections of the Antitrust Division at the US Department of Justice, after previously serving as a senior criminal litigator.
As Chief of the National Criminal Enforcement and Washington Criminal I Sections of the Antitrust Division, Phelan supervised and coordinated all investigative and litigation work on international and national criminal cartel cases.
FrontLine Compliance has strengthened its consulting team in response to the continued growth of the firm’s offerings of regulatory compliance advising and support for SEC registered investment advisers and private funds.
Mike Spero, a former Chief Compliance Officer, recently joined FrontLine Compliance as Senior Vice President to handle clients’ compliance requirements.
Spero specialises in complex regulatory compliance matters for investment advisers and private funds. With over seventeen years of compliance specific experience, he has excelled in senior compliance roles guiding money managers on the implementation and oversight of an effective compliance program. Spero most recently served as Chief Compliance
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