Pivot Bags Bradley

Pivot Inc., a provider of collaborative software for instant messaging-based trading and liquidity aggregation, has hired James Bradley as chief architect, reporting to vice president of engineering and quality assurance Andy Nanopoulos.

Pivot will use Bradley’s knowledge and experience of gaining efficiencies and productivity at the architecture level to contribute to enabling market participants and clearinghouses to integrate Pivot’s products at an enterprise level, officials say.

Bradley was