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OptionsCity Software announced today that Timo Pentner has joined the company as Executive Vice President of Services. Mr. Pentner will oversee all support, onboarding, and training operations in the U.S. and Europe.

NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today announced the appointment of Varghese Thomas as Senior Vice President and Global Head of Infrastructure Solutions. In this role, Mr. Thomas will be responsible for the development and management of a leading financial hosting, network and managed services business, which provides secure solutions for the global financial services community. The business supports customers with new innovations such as FIX as a Service, Time Series as a Service and other core managed solutions opportunities designed to lower costs and create business efficiencies. Based in New York, Mr. Thomas will work in close collaboration with NYSE Technologies’ Content and Liquidity Solutions teams reporting to COO, Terry Roche.

Integral Development, a leading provider of FX trading solutions and services, announced today that David Faulkner has joined the firm as global segment head, banks. He will be focused on further innovating on Integral’s products and services for that particular segment of the market and orchestrate the work of a variety of internal stakeholders to deliver additional synergies to customers. Faulkner joins from EBS where he spent the last nine years in various executive roles. He will be based in Integral’s London office.

OneMarketData, a leader in tick data management and analytics, today announced that Jeffrey Banker has been appointed senior vice president, market development. As part of OneMarketData’s commitment to meet the growing global demand for its product suite and continually invest in top industry talent, Banker will join the firm’s senior management team to identify and bring new products to market, develop the professional service business, and grow the company’s expanding line of products across large financial enterprises.

Eka Software Solutions, a global provider of commodities trading and risk management solutions (CTRM), today announced the appointment of Srinivas Kalale as Vice President, Corporate Development. Srinivas will be responsible for global strategic partnerships and alliances, acquisitions and new growth opportunities at Eka.

Options, the market leader in infrastructure as a service (IaaS) products for the global capital markets industry, has today announced that the former NYSE Euronext executive, Tim Yockel, has been appointed as the firm’s new SVP of Global Sales.

Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced the promotion of Benny Koren to vice president of architecture and Gideon Rosenberg to vice president, Israeli legal affairs. Mr. Koren will report to Michael Kagan, CTO, and Mr. Rosenberg will report to Matthew Gloss, general counsel.

First Derivatives, a leading provider of software and consulting services to the capital markets industry, announces the launch of its Swap Execution Facility (SEF) initiative and the appointment of James Sanders as Chief Compliance Officer to oversee the Company’s registration as a SEF.

Options, provider of the Options PIPE Private Financial Cloud services platform for the exchange, banking, trading and investment communities, today announced that former NYSE Euronext executive Danny Moore has been appointed as the firm’s new Chief Operating Officer.

2013 looks set to prove a dynamic year for hiring in the low-latency technology sector.  With a growing diversity in the “end user” space,  we here at Harrington Starr - a specialist financial IT recruiter - are predicting significantly increased demand for talent with the best candidates in high demand.  2012 has proved a very interesting year for trading technology with a skills shortage very noticeable in many niche and growing areas.  Low-latency technology has very much fallen into this category with Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) at the kernel.

Object Trading, an independent provider of global direct market access (DMA), today announced it has named Dan Hubscher director of marketing. In this newly created position, he will accelerate the company’s current global growth by promoting the Object Trading brand while providing market feedback to ensure the FrontRunner suite of products continues to meet the high standards of buy- and sell-side firms around the world. Hubscher brings nearly 15 years of capital markets technology sector experience to his new role.

Ulf Axman, a well-known and established figure in the financial industry, has been appointed Head of Sales for the financial technology company Cinnober.