Moscow Exchange makes six senior hires

By Andrei Skvarsky.

Moscow Exchange has announced six hires for top roles in its risk management, primary markets, investor relations and IT services.

Luis Vicente was appointed as head of risk and clearing at the National Clearing Centre, which is part of Moscow Exchange, the bourse said in a statement.

His 16 years of risk management experience include 12 years spent in central counterparty risk management at Brazilian multi-market exchange BM&FBOVESPA, one of the world’s 10 largest exchanges by market capitalisation and the leading bourse in Latin America.

While at BM&FBOVESPA, he was responsible for the development of a new closeout risk evaluation (CORE) framework, a multi asset-class, multi-market risk management system for central counterparties.

Anna Vasilenko, whose record includes jobs with Credit Suisse and Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital, was recruited as head of primary markets. One of her objectives will be higher numbers of Russian and foreign securities traded.

Her career in investment banking has included a role as project manager in creating Russia’s first deliver-versus-payment (DVP) system in 2001.

Vasilenko specialised in structuring large transactions for Russian corporates, arranging financing for companies in various industries, and in liquidity management.

Before moving to RenCap in 2006, where she held a top position in the structural products department, Vasilenko was deputy head of securities management at Lukoil, one of the Russia’s largest oil companies.

Sergey Klinkov was given the position of head of investor relations. He had overseen investor relations at two other firms before coming to Moscow Exchange – engineering equipment manufacturer HMS Group and Bank Vozrozhdenie.

Victor Malakhov will be in charge of the development and implementation of new software.

Previously he was head of IT development at Moscow’s Skolkovo School of Management, chief information officer and chief technology officer at former Russian investment bank Troika Dialog, and head of product development at Deutsche Bank’s Moscow unit.

Evgeny Gavrilov will oversee the analysis of derivatives market processes and operational and technological requirements for the derivatives market. Previously he was head of IT risk and regulatory control at Sberbank CIB, the investment unit of Russia’s biggest lender Sberbank.

Igor Artelnykh, who was formerly head of IT development for foreign exchange trading systems at RenCap, was appointed as system architect in the IT department.

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