In other People Moves news, the SEC fills a key enforcement post, LiquidityBook taps Twitter and AI vendor Pelican expands into Asia.
New Lead Director and New Board Committee Chairs at Morgan Stanley
Thomas Glocer, lead director, Morgan Stanley board
Morgan Stanley reports that Reuters veteran Thomas Glocer has been appointed independent lead director of the board of directors, taking over from Erskine Bowles, effective September 1, 2017. Glocer was appointed by the board’s independent directors.
Glocer’s appointment “reflects the Board’s governance policy of rotating Lead Directors after a period of time,” according to a Morgan Stanley statement, which notes also that he has been a director since May 2013 and chair of the operations and technology committee since February 2014.
Glocer was CEO of Thomson Reuters Corporation from 2008 through 2011 and CEO of Reuters Group PLC from 2001 to 2008, according to the statement. Thomson acquired Reuters in 2007.
The Morgan Stanley board also appointed two new committee chairs – Jami Miscik will chair the operations and technology committee and Rayford Wilkins will chair the nominating and governance committee, both effective September 1, 2017, per the statement.
SEC Fills Key Post for Enforcement in Fort Worth, Texas
Jessica B. Magee, SEC associate regional director for enforcement, Fort Worth, TX
The SEC reports that Jessica B. Magee has been named the associate regional director for enforcement in the Fort Worth, Texas office. She succeeds David L. Peavler, who left the agency in May.
Magee joined the SEC as a staff attorney in the enforcement division in 2010 and became senior trial counsel in 2012. She was promoted to assistant regional director in 2015, and she became regional trial counsel in 2016.
Before joining the SEC, Magee worked as a litigation associate for the law firm of Thompson & Knight in Dallas.
LiquidityBook Hires from Twitter for Chief Architect
LiquidityBook reports the appointment of industry veteran Andy Carroll as chief architect, reporting to chief technology officer (CTO) Shawn Samuel.
Carroll will be “responsible for the technology architecture of the firm’s SaaS-based [software-as-a-service] platform,” according to the statement.
Carroll joins LiquidityBook from Twitter, “where he was a staff software engineer in the firm’s Live Video group, serving as the tech lead on the project to live-stream the NFL’s Thursday Night Football games during the 2016 season. He joined Twitter as part of its acquisition of social TV analytics firm BlueFin Labs, where he served as a tech lead.”
AI Vendor Pelican Opens Hong Kong Office
Pelican, a vendor of payments and financial crime compliance solutions based upon artificial intelligence (AI), has expanded into Asia Pacific via its new office in Hong Kong, officials report.
Colin Camp, senior director, business development & sales, APAC, Pelican
The move also required the appointed of Colin Camp “to lead the growth in the region,” Pelican officials say. Camp will take on the role of senior director, business development and sales, APAC, and will be based in Hong Kong. He will oversee business growth across Asia.
Camp has held senior executive positions within the financial technology industry for more than 30 years, and has worked for Dion Global Solutions, Misys (now Finastra) and Broadridge, officials. For the past 20 years, Camp has been based in Asia and has extensive experience of working in the local markets across the region.
In addition to the payments offerings, Pelican is launching new solutions such as the Pelican Secure — Trade Based Money Laundering (TBML) and Fraud detection solutions “which are attracting a lot of interest from banks wanting to make their TBML compliance and fraud detection more secure, efficient and cost-effective,” Camp says in a prepared statement.
Pelican officials say the vendor applies AI, natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning disciplines to global payments processing and financial crime compliance for more than 20 years. “The company’s expansion into the Asia Pacific region provides Pelican with a wider global reach, complementing its existing office network in New York, London, Amsterdam, Mumbai and Dubai,” vendor officials add.
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