03 September 2009 Company Announcements

 

Appointments: Neonet boosts sales force

Neonet has appointed two senior members to lead its global sales and trading team, and announced further additions to the team. The team is bolstered to serve and focus on the needs of the buy-side community, ensure dark pool provision, low latency access and liquidity seeking algos.

Peter Johansson extends his responsibilities with the position as global head of equities based in Stockholm, overseeing the sales and trading teams globally. Peter was previously head of trading and has been driving the international expansion of Neonet's trading capabilities and he will extend this with the combined responsibility for sales and trading.

Patrik Ristner will be global head of sales, based in Neonet's London office. Patrik has an experience in trading and technology having set up and been responsible for Pan Capital in Hong Kong and Orc Software in Chicago. He will be managing a team of eleven sales people across five offices in Europe and USA.

Neonet also adds senior sales executives both in Europe and USA. In the US Lynn Cannizzaro and Jerome DeSantis have joined. Lynn has experience in the electronic trading sector from Painewebber, Credit Suisse, JPMorgan, and Société Générale. Jerome joins with a sales background selling global agency brokerage services from Axes and Bloomberg Tradebook and technology solutions for GL Trade in New York. In the UK Christian Bower joins from Portware, where he was responsible for sales in Europe, Middle East and Africa and has led Portware's expansion outside the US.