Des Peck Joins Object Trading as New Business Sales Executive in Europe
Former Product Executive will help grow the company across European and Asian markets
Online, June 10, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Object Trading, an independent provider of global direct market access (DMA), today announced the appointment of Des Peck as New Business Sales Executive in Europe. Mr. Peck will be responsible for leading Object Trading's sales and business development initiatives. He will join Object Trading's London office and report to Gerry Turner, Executive Director of Object Trading.
Mr. Peck joined Object Trading from TMX Atrium, where he was the Head of Marketing and Product since 2008. He will be responsible for fostering new business opportunities and aligning the company's technology innovations with the specific needs of buy and sell side clients. While at TMX Atrium, Des developed and executed a strategy repositioning the company from a low cost infrastructure provider to a low latency, multi region, multi asset service provider. During his tenure at TMX Atrium, the company launched an award winning low latency product, and expanded into new geographies and asset classes.
"We are very excited to have Des join the Object Trading team in Europe," said Steve Woodyatt, CEO at Object Trading. "He is an exceptional sales executive who can develop and apply technology to create business benefit for his clients. His full breadth and depth of skills and experiences in the financial services industry will be invaluable to market participants building unique services and trading strategies upon the Object Trading platform."
Prior to TMX Atrium, Des was at BT Radianz, where he was the Head of Product Marketing responsible for launching innovative solutions to the market and generating new revenue streams for the business. He held senior manager positions in Account Development and Engineering teams at Radianz from 2000 to 2005. Des has an MSc in Telecommunications, a BEng in Electronics and is Chartered Engineer as well as a post-graduate of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
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About Object Trading
Object Trading delivers sell- and buy- side firms and technology providers a single gateway for connecting to global trading venues. Within its FrontRunner suite of products, the company offers direct market access (DMA) - market data, order execution and pre-trade risk constraints - through an independent and trusted infrastructure. The company's FrontRunner suite allows users to create a bespoke trading solution around their market access with comprehensive, inline risk constraints. Object Trading is connected to more than 60 global equity, derivative and FX exchanges for both market data and order routing, with offices in London, New York, Chicago and Sydney.
Contact:
For Object Trading:
Emily Pan
Articulate Communications
+1 (212) 294-5506
epan@articulatecomms.com