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Bridge subsidiary Telerate has confirmed a series of appointments. Mary Ivaliotis has been appointed chief operating officer of Telerate Holdings effective immediately. She reports to John Jessop, president and CEO. Ivaliotis, previously senior vice president of global marketing, replaces Rick Snape, who has been appointed executive vice president for corporate development at Bridge. Brian Decker, previously vice president of fixed income applications, has been appointed senior vice president of marketing in the Americas for Telerate, reporting to Ivaliotis. Her other direct reports are Bruce Schachne and Jeremy Johnston, directors of Telerate marketing in Europe and Asia respectively; Bruce Chalfant and Louise Lomax, responsible for optional services in the Americas and Europe respectively; and Viren Patel, vice president of energy marketing.

Alastair Hazell, managing director of Thomson Financial Europe, has swapped positions with Jim Malkin, managing director of Thomson Financial Asia Pacific (see related story, this issue).

Richard Goodwin has joined Investhink, an online marketplace and provider of content delivery solutions for financial institutions’ web offerings, as technical director. Goodwin will be based in Investhink’s London office, reporting to chief operating officer Sina Hakman. Goodwin joins from Hemscott.net (formerly Hemmington Scott), where he was head of IT for six years. Prior to Hemmington Scott, Goodwin worked at Bankers Trust, managing trading floor support. Goodwin has also worked at money broker MAI developing fixed-interest and derivative information and trading systems and has spent five years at a software house developing price dissemination systems for the energy, commodity and financial futures markets. Also new at Investhink is Fugen Isik, who joins as chief administrative officer based in New York. Isik was previously vice president of international private banking at Barclays Bank. She has also held senior finance positions at Dun & Bradstreet, Merrill Lynch and Bankers Trust.

Wilco International has appointed Paul Thomas as sales and marketing director. Thomas, who has been with Wilco since 1995, has been promoted from European sales manager. Thomas joined Wilco when the company acquired a trading system from Iceberg Software, a company that he jointly established in 1992. In other appointments at Wilco, Lee Staines has been named European sales manager and David Page has been appointed European major accounts manager. Staines and Page are based in London.

Tibco Software has added two new members to its board of directors: Peter Job, chief executive of Tibco’s parent company, Reuters, and David Ure, executive director at Reuters, who also serves as chairman of Radianz, the joint networking venture from Reuters and Equant announced earlier this year. Job and Ure take the place of departing Tibco board members John Taysom and Doug Atkin, also Reuters executives. Taysom heads Reuters’ Greenhouse Fund, while Atkin serves as chief executive officer of its Instinet electronic platform. Reuters holds three of the nine seats on Tibco’s board.

John Tucker has left Reuters subsidiary Reality Online, where he was senior vice president of marketing, to join Abovetrade.com as president and CEO. Abovetrade, based in San Mateo, Calif., is a start-up specializing in automated online investment strategies and advice.

David Gertler joins Prescient Markets as senior vice president for marketing and product management. Gertler, who will report to Laurent Paulhac, president and CEO, is expected to lead the company’s development of new Internet-based fixed-income products. Gertler joins from Reuters, where he was senior vice president responsible for fixed-income marketing. Before Reuters, Gertler worked at Bridge as managing director in the Bridge/Telerate division.

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