LiquidityBook has added James Pearson and Abdullah Al Nasiri to its Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) client service team, based in London.
According to LiquidityBook, Pearson will play a key role in onboarding projects and will work closely with both internal developers and external clients.
Most recently, Pearson was head of IT at Schneider Trading Associates, where he controlled all aspects of IT for the company, setting strategy and direction for the department and managed supplier relationships.
Meanwhile, Al Nasiri will work with the client support group, assisting with FIX development and deployment to the firm’s client base in his new role at LiquidityBook.
Additionally, Al Nasiri will support the critical trade processes and ensure clients are able to unlock the full power of LiquidityBook platforms.
Al Nasiri joins from Fidessa, where he served as a Technical Support Analyst.
LiquidtyBook highlighted that the hires arrive at the firm at a time when an increasing number of fund managers are abandoning their legacy technology providers in favour of more agile, web-based systems.
Commenting on the hires, Sean Sullivan, chief revenue officer at LiquidityBook, said: “We are constantly looking for potential employees with core financial industry skill sets and the desire to apply those skills within the framework of a more modern technology platform. More and more, we find that such talented individuals are coming from legacy business models.”
“The appeal for them is the opportunity to work with new and more cutting-edge platforms that will benefit their careers for years to come. Pearson and Al Nasiri both come to us with strong resumes of unique skills, and we look forward to them having a great impact on our ability to scale and deliver our products to match the growth of our business in EMEA,” Sullivan added.
