Liquidnet hires European head of EQS 

Liquidnet, the institutional trading network, has announced that industry veteran Chris Jackson has joined the company as European Head of Liquidnet’s Execution and Quantitative Services (EQS) Group. Chris brings over twenty years of experience to this new role which will involve setting the strategic direction of the European trading desk and Algorithmic Services Group, as well as heading up the senior sales effort for Liquidnet’s algorithmic offering with European clients.

“The build out of our EQS offering will be essential as our Members continue to seek out ways to improve investment performance. Chris is a proven leader working in execution services at top tier investment banks and building senior client relationships which will be essential as we grow this business in the region,” commented Mark Pumfrey, Head of EMEA at Liquidnet. “Over the course of the year we will continue to expand the EQS offering bringing to our Members cutting edge products and analytics so that they can best achieve their trading objectives.”

Over the course of the last year, Liquidnet has been building its EQS team with the appointment of New York based, Rob Laible as Head of Liquidnet’s Global Performance team in July 2014. Liquidnet made three further hires in this team in December 2014, whose role is to further expand Liquidnet’s offering, including designing, implementing, and customizing Liquidnet’s suite of execution algorithms and analytics while also providing quantitative research and market microstructure insight.

“As asset managers begin to look even more closely at execution quality and services, there has never been a better time to join Liquidnet which enables its members to execute large block trades in the most efficient way. I am looking forward to bringing my market and product expertise across electronic, program and block trading to help drive Liquidnet’s EQS strategy and sales effort across Europe,” commented Jackson.

Chris joins from Citi where he was Head of Execution Sales, EMEA. Prior to Citi, Chris spent twelve years at Merrill Lynch where he was latterly Head of Sales across program, transitions and electronic trading. Chris started his career at SBC Warburg in 1995, where for two years he worked in the EMEA Portfolio Sales and sales trading team.

Source: automatedtrader

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