New Hire Roundup: Merrill Adds Teams From Barclays, Morgan Stanley

With more than 25 years in enterprise technology and financial services leadership, Kauber has held positions at companies such as IBM, Dun & Bradstreet and First Data Corp., as well as Tranzact, Bigfoot Interactive, Solid Group and Entitle Direct.

Impax Appoints Bridgeland, Martinez

Impax Asset Management Group PLC has announced the appointment of Sally Bridgeland and Lindsey Brace Martinez as non-executive directors. In addition, Bridgeland joins the remuneration committee and the audit and risk committee; Lindsey joins the remuneration committee.

Bridgeland is currently a non-executive director of Royal London and is a trustee of the Lloyds Bank No. 1 and No. 2 Pension Schemes, and NEST Corp.; she has worked in the U.K. pensions industry for more than 20 years. Originally qualifying as a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries with consultants Bacon & Woodrow (now Aon Hewitt), she was CEO of the BP Pension Fund from 2007–2014. She held a number of voluntary roles with the actuarial profession and is currently senior warden of the Worshipful Company of Actuaries.

With more than 25 years of experience in investment advisory, natural resources investments, and management consulting, Martinez was most recently managing director of global client service and relations at Cambridge Associates, where she held multiple leadership positions during her 15-year tenure. Earlier Martinez worked for the Hancock Timber Resource Group and was a consultant at Booz, Allen. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the YaleCenter for Business and the Environment. She is based in the U.S. Trident Fund Services Names Hecksher

Global independent fund administrator Trident Fund Services has appointed Thalius Hecksher to the newly created position of global director.

Hecksher brings over 20 years’ experience in the global financial markets, specializing in hedge funds, private equity, liquid alternatives, family offices and wealth management across the Americas, U.K., Europe, Middle East, Asia and the growing African market.

Las Olas Capital Advisors Launches

Las Olas Capital Advisors announced its launch as an independent firm, with offices in Fort Lauderdale, Tampa and New York.

Las Olas is led by Paul Tanner, founder and managing director, formerly of UBS. The team includes Merissa Ann Davis, who leads trading and administrative services; Samantha Sullivan, responsible for portfolio analytics and research; and Melissa Stephenson, in charge of digital media marketing and assists with administrative services.

MSRB Announces New Officers, Board Members

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has announced new officers and members of its board of directors for fiscal 2016. They will begin their terms on Oct. 1. Nathaniel Singer, senior managing director at Swap Financial Group, will serve as chairman; Colleen Woodell, former chief credit officer of global corporate and government ratings for Standard & Poor’s, will serve as vice chair.

New members representing the public on the board are Ronald Dieckman, former senior vice president at J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons; Megan Kilgore, assistant city auditor at the City of Columbus Auditor’s Office; Mark Kim, chief financial officer at the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority; and Andrew Sanford, SVP at the Chubb Corp. Bank representative board members are Ed Tishelman, managing director and head of the TD Securities Municipal Finance Group and Dale Turnipseed, executive director at J.P. Morgan. Renee Boicourt, managing director and partner for Lamont Financial Services Corporation, joins the board as a municipal advisor representative.