Category: People

Oak Group, the C.I.-based administrator, has made three senior management promotions. Catherine Pigeon, Oak’s group chief risk & compliance officer, has been appointed to the board of directors. Nicola Gott becomes chief commercial officer, responsible for the sales and marketing strategy across the group. John Doublard is promoted to chief technology officer. Oak’s technology team…

BNY Mellon’s board of directors has elected Sandie O’Connor as an independent director. With the addition of O’Connor, the board will have 13 directors, 12 of whom are independent. O’Connor retired as the chief regulatory affairs officer for JPMorgan Chase, where she set the firm’s regulatory strategy and led engagement with G-20 policymakers. Prior to…

RBC Investor & Treasury Services has hired Paul Burd as managing director, global head of client operations. Burd will be based in Luxembourg, reporting to Francis Jackson, head of RBC I&TS. Most recently, Burd was the COO of Six Digital Exchange. Prior to joining SDX, Burd held a variety of roles at HSBC, Goldman Sachs,…

Anchorage Digital, a U.S.-based digital assets servicer, has hired Camilla Churcher as its head of sales. She was most recently at cryptonative lending platform, Celsius, where she was global head of business development, and has experience in traditional prime brokerage sales at Credit Suisse and Bank of America. Anchorage received an industry-first federal bank charter…

Equity Trustees, the Australian provider of responsible entity and trustee services, has appointed Johnny Francis as general manager, business development and custody, corporate trustee services. Francis spent seven years at Perpetual Limited, most recently as head of sales and relationship management for managed fund services. Equity Trustees’ CTS division currently has more than AUD100bn (USD71bn)…

Mark Snowdon has joined Standard Chartered as head of insurance relationship management for Asia. Based in Hong Kong, he is responsible for managing and developing the bank’s financing and securities servicing insurance client franchise across Asia, incorporating custody, fund services, agency securities lending and prime services activities. He joins from Northern Trust.