Eventus Systems, a global provider of asset trade surveillance and market risk solutions, has made three new appointments to its European team as part of the firm’s continued growth in the region and globally.
Ollie Cadman has been appointed as chief product officer, while David Griffiths and Martin Appiah will become directors of regulatory affairs.
Based in Stockholm, Cadman will report to Eventus CEO Travis Schwab, while Griffiths and Appiah – both based in the UK – will report to Joseph Schifano, global head of regulatory affairs.
Cadman will be responsible for building out the firm’s global product team, providing a framework for expanding its product offering.
Appiah will help to ensure that Eventus’ growing client base in the Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region are able to meet the evolving demands of local regulations and client risk assessments through the firm’s Validus platform.
Validus combines surveillance, market risk, algo monitoring, anti-money laundering andtransaction monitoring.
Griffiths will be responsible for the firm’s client implementation programme of Validus to ensure new clients maximise the effectiveness of the surveillance procedures, resources and flexibility available to them.
Cadman has product management and business development experience in financial markets and technology, including at Intercontinental Exchange and the London Stock Exchange Group, Morningstar and J.P. Morgan.
Most recently, he served as chief product officer at Vela Trading Systems where he was responsible for product management and development, product operations, market data licensing, exchange connectivity and client support.
Prior to joining Eventus, Griffiths was head of trade surveillance for SteelEye. Before that, he served at Cider Barn Group Consulting as product director for a strategic partnership between Nasdaq and Digital Reasoning.
Griffiths has also held senior compliance strategy and trade surveillance roles at JPMorgan Chase, Standard Chartered Bank and Oracle Mantas.
Appiah most recently served at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) as a compliance surveillance expert, after serving as lead consultant for Compliance Surveillance Remediation and earlier as compliance surveillance officer for Nomura International.
He has also held roles in risk advisory, compliance and surveillance at global consulting firm Deloitte as well as Santander Group Corporate Bank, BGC/Cantor Fitzgerald Europe, BNP Paribas and JPMorgan Chase.
Commenting on the company’s new appointments, Schwab says: “We’re very proud to continue attracting tremendous talent to the organisation and to methodically build on our team with some of the most experienced and knowledgeable professionals in the business, who understand first-hand the challenges our clients face.
He adds: “Each of them will play important roles in enabling us to provide the best possible service to our clients conducting business globally and in the EMEA region.”
