OpenLink CEO to Step Down

Cross-asset trading and risk management software vendor OpenLink has announced that its CEO, Kevin Hesselbirg, will step down from his role.
Upon the appointment of a successor, Hesselbirg will remain at the company in an advisory role as vice chairman of the board. As a result of the move, OpenLink also announced that Robert B Henske, managing director at investor Hellman & Friedman LLC, will become chairman of the board to oversee the search for a new CEO.
Hesselbirg has been at OpenLink since 1999, having first served as its chief financial officer, before becoming chief operating officer in 2001 and eventually CEO in 2007.
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