New FX People Moves: FxPro, Societe Generale and CLS Group

FxPro has made a new appointment after it hired Jon Chapman as its new e-FX institutional sales manager. Prior to joining FxPro, Mr. Chapman previously worked at Boston Technologies and Boston Prime.

Mr. Chapman will report to FxPro CEO Charalambos Psimolophitis and will be based in London, where he has mostly worked in, besides a past stint in Singapore. At Boston Technologies, Mr. Chapman worked in institutional prime brokerage sales for the EMEA region.

 Meanwhile, Societe Generale’s unit, Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking has hired Sadia Ricke as the Head of Global Finance for the Asia-Pacific region (APAC), based in Hong Kong. Mr. Ricke will report to Hikaru Ogata, the Societe Generale’s chief executive officer of Global Banking & Investor Solutions for the APAC region.

The French bank’s move follows its recent appointment of Eric Verleyen as its Global Chief Information Officer. Ricke’s appointment is a promotion as he previously worked for Societe Generale CIB in Paris as the Head of Credit Risk.

Elsewhere, FX risk mitigation provider CLS Group has hired Trevor Suarez as its Chief Finance Officer, reporting to CLS CEO David Puth. He will be based in London and will join the company’s Executive Management Committee as well as become a key member of CLS Board’s Audit and Finance Committee.

Trevor is a CLS insider, having joined in February 2014 in the capacity of the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis. From September 2014, he was the co-CFO.

Trevor previously worked as the Finance Director of the Lloyds Bank’s UK Wealth Division as well as the Head of Group Planning & Performance at Halifax Bank of Scotland.