Sophis has appointed Charles Garcia as head of sales for Sophis North America to support an increase in  demand for its products, particularly on the buy-side.

Garcia was most recently director of business development at BlackRock Solutions. At BlackRock he was responsible for driving sales for the firm's enterprise investment system which included yearly multi-million dollar revenue deals. Prior to this, Charles worked at Tradeweb, where he developed and implemented the Order Management System product and sales strategy for Thomson Financial. Before this, Charles spent over 10 years at Bloomberg Financial Markets, where he held a number of sales roles including growing Bloomberg's market data/trade order management to a multi-million dollar business and expanded sales in new regions such as Latin America.