Elian
Elian has strengthened its recently launched commercial team with two senior appointments.
Lisa Mclauchlan has been appointed business development and marketing director, and Mari Hietala-David has been appointed to oversee marketing and business development for private equity and real estate funds.
As part of the newly created role, Mclauchlan will oversee all marketing and business development activity across Elian’s service lines and 16 jurisdictions. She will be responsible for cementing relationships with clients and intermediaries in major markets, forging cross-functional relationships with established clients and the launch and promotion of new product lines.
Marketing and business development specialist Hietala-David has worked in the financial services industry for more than 15 years. She joined Elian from State Street, where she looked after marketing for the firm’s private equity and real estate business in Europe.
Moneybox
Daniel Godfrey, the former chief executive of The Investment Association, has joined the advisory board of fintech startup Moneybox, a savings and investment app for millennials.
At the Investment Association, Godfrey established a new, independent investor forum with the purpose of promoting long-term thinking in investment and introduced new ways of communicating costs to customers clearly. He also established a Statement of Principles designed to explain clearly to clients how investment managers look after their money and put their clients’ interests first.
Exiger
Global financial crime, risk, and compliance firm, Exiger has appointed Jake Scrivens as its new managing director and head of its Hong Kong office.
Scrivens joins Exiger from Barclays, where he was most recently head of markets structuring, APAC, at the firm’s investment bank. In that role, he was responsible for structuring activities across all asset classes for the markets business.
While at Barclays, Scrivens also served as head of strategic credit portfolio management group at Barclays Capital, and as general counsel in the legal and compliance division in both EMEA and APAC.
Optimus Pensions Administrators
Martin Hall has joined the board of Optimus Pensions Administrators Limited (OPAL) having been with the company since 2007. Hall focused on the fiduciary side of the business until 2013 when he took a prominent role in establishing the pension business.
A member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Hall started his career in 1993 with the Isle of Man Company Registry before moving into the private sector. He now leads a growing team who administrator a range of pension schemes including Qrops, Qnups, Sipps, and international pensions.
