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Fidessa Sales Team Expands
London, 1st December 2004 - royalblue today announced that it is strengthening its sales team with the appointment of Matthew Paré and Lesley Laws. Both Paré and Laws will work in new business sales roles. Internally, Angie Walker, is now promoted to director of new business sales UK, and Ian Cox becomes director of Fidessa house accounts, UK.
Matthew Paré joins royalblue from EasyBroker, an institutional sell-side firm where he was head of product development, specialising in direct market access (DMA) connectivity, client front-end systems and technical and quantitative research development.
Along with the development aspect, Paré had direct new business development responsibilities for southern Europe and the Benelux regions, managing a portfolio of buy-side and agency accounts with values in excess of €140 million. Paré will focus on opportunities in continental Europe targeting both the buy-side and sell-side with Fidessa’s hosted workflow solutions along with DMA trading and market-data products.
Lesley Laws brings valuable account management experience from her time in Telerate, a global provider of real-time financial information specialising in the fixed income and money markets where she worked for 12 years. Lesley held a number of positions within Telerate culminating as sales and marketing manager for the UK regional business. Laws will join the new business team and focus on sales of Fidessa Workstation platform to the UK market.
Angie Walker becomes director for new business sales UK, and heads up a team tasked with extending Fidessa's reach within the UK financial markets by selling the hosted workflow, trading and market-data solutions.
Existing Fidessa accounts in the UK are now managed by a separate sales team headed by Ian Cox, director of house accounts. Ian's team will focus on servicing existing clients with new Fidessa product initiatives as well as managing their existing Fidessa services.
Commenting on these appointments Simon Barnby, business development manager for Fidessa says: “These new appointments, will allow us to take advantage of the strong market demand for the Fidessa suite whilst underlining our commitment in providing best of breed services and solutions to our existing clients. With a strong sales force in place we can also look to expand in new business areas like DMA trading services, buy-side to sell-side connectivity and market data solutions.”
About Fidessa group
Fidessa group is the leading supplier of multi-asset trading, portfolio analysis, decision support, compliance, market data and connectivity solutions for firms involved in trading the world’s financial markets. Fidessa’s products and services are built on the simple vision of making it easier to buy, sell and own financial assets of all types on a global basis.
Pedigree
A dynamic, growing company with a proven track record, Fidessa is recognised as the thought leader in the marketplace, with an unrivalled set of products and services which set the benchmark for this industry and, uniquely, serve both the buy-side and sell-side communities globally.
Experience
With over 28 years’ experience delivering powerful, resilient, mission-critical systems, Fidessa develops all its products itself from the ground up, investing heavily in their continual evolution. The resulting leading-edge, truly integrated solutions have established Fidessa as the industry’s number one choice, and are used by over 85% of tier-one, global financial institutions.
Scale
Headquartered in London and with regional operations across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East, Fidessa supports 25,000 users across 850 clients, serving a broad spectrum of customers from major investment banks and asset managers through to specialist niche brokers and hedge funds.
Established
Fidessa group is listed on the London Stock Exchange (symbol FDSA) and is a FTSE 250 company. Fidessa has a turnover of around £240m, has delivered 30% compound growth since its 1997 listing and now employs 1,500 people globally.
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