Capital markets technology platform provider, Trading Technologies International, is hiring three senior team members in the new year.
Joining on 1 January 2024 will be Justin Llewellyn-Jones as chief operating officer (COO), Christopher Heffernan as EVP fixed income and Alun Green as EVP futures & options.
TT CEO Keith Todd said, “As we continue to grow into new asset classes and significantly broaden our appeal to the buy side, we have been steadily fortifying our leadership team – as well as subject matter experts within each of our newly aligned business lines – with seasoned professionals to ensure we have all the building blocks in place to achieve our ambitious goals. Justin, Chris and Alun bring to the team a wealth of talent, skills, experience and deep relationships, and we’re thrilled to have them join TT in the new year.”
As COO, Llewellyn-Jones will lead all of the firm’s market-facing business to drive its multi-asset growth, in collaboration with the heads of each business line. Most recently at Broadridge, he served as chief product officer since early 2022 and as head of capital markets, North America (equities, FX & derivatives) for more than four years, with responsibility for business operations and product strategy. Previously, he was global head of derivatives at ION after more than 14 years with Fidessa, which ION had acquired. At Fidessa, he was also global head of derivatives for more than six years and COO Americas for more than eight years.
Heffernan will focus on building TT’s global fixed income business, having recently served since 2019 as head of fixed income sales at Flow Traders where he ran a team responsible for new business, client distribution and relationship management. Prior to this, he joined SumRidge Partners in 2011 as one of the original founding employees, serving until 2018 as director, institutional sales, prior to the firm’s acquisition last year by financial services firm Raymond James. Heffernan started his career at Morgan Stanley in 2001, where he served as vice president in fixed income for over eight years, with roles on both the sales and trading desks.
TT acquired fixed income execution management system (EMS) provider AxeTrading in March 2023, and during 2022, TT acquired RCM-X, a technology provider of algorithmic execution strategies and quantitative trading products, and entered into strategic partnerships with KRM22 to expand its risk management product portfolio, Talos to broaden its cryptocurrency offering, ATEO Finance to deliver post-trade allocation services and Bantix Technologies to provide the QuikStrike options analysis software application through the TT platform.
Green will focus on expanding the company’s core futures and options franchise. For the past eight years, he has served in London as managing director, derivatives utility at Fidelity Information Services (FIS), following the firm’s acquisition of SunGard in 2015. He also served at FIS as executive vice president and head of strategy, post-trade derivatives and securities. Green was at Calyon Financial (known as Carr Futures prior to its 2004 acquisition by Credit Agricole) in several technology-focused roles from 1999 to 2007.
Llewellyn-Jones and Heffernan will be based in New York, with Green based in London.
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