New Sales and Marketing Hires Add to HANetf Distribution Firepower
- ETF distribution veteran
Robert Dickson joins as Director of Sales
- Kilian Richter joins as
Assistant Director, Nordic Sales
- Gail Greenwood appointed
Director of Marketing
London 14 May, 2020: HANetf, Europe’s first ‘white label’ ETF issuer, is
pleased to announce a significant expansion of its distribution and marketing
capabilities with three new appointments. The hires have been added to bolster
the firm’s experienced distribution team and increase the firm’s distribution
footprint into new markets. HANetf has added two new ETFs in 2020 and assets
under management recently surpassed a $300m milestone. HANetf’s white label
asset management clients include companies from the US, Canada, UK and Kuwait,
including The Royal Mint, Purpose Investments, Big Tree Capital, KMEFIC and
Ginsberg Global.
An ETF distribution and trading
veteran, Robert Dickson has been confirmed as Director of Sales for the
UK & Ireland. Rob brings over 30 years of investment market experience,
having started his career as a private client investment manager at Sheppards
and becoming a member of the London Stock Exchange before holding roles in
equities sales and trading as a Director of Charterhouse, Cheuvreux and
Canaccord. Robert then spent 6 years dedicated to ETFs and ETPs at Boost,
WisdomTree and Lyxor in sales, business development and consulting Director
level roles.
Kilian Richter joins HANetf as Assistant Director of Nordic Sales and
French speaking Switzerland. Previously, Kilian oversaw institutional fixed
income sales for Dutch trading company STX Fixed Income and gained ETF
experience during his time on the Nordic institutional sales team at ETF
Securities. Kilian holds an MSc in Management from the International University
of Monaco.
Gail Greenwood has been appointed as Director of Marketing, adding more
than 15 years of marketing experience across the broking and fintech sectors.
Prior to joining HANetf, Gail was responsible for leading the content strategy
and client experience for two of the largest global CFD and FX brokers, CMC
Markets and City Index. She has
extensive experience in marketing to institutional audiences at NYSE Euronext,
GAIN Capital and Integral Development Corporation.
Co-Founder and Co-CEO,
Hector McNeil commented: “Through the
HANetf platform, asset managers gain instant access to a comprehensive
regulatory and product development solution, pre-existing distribution
infrastructure and a team with huge experience in distributing ETFs of all
asset classes and types. The knowledge and skills that Rob, Killian and Gail
bring will be an important component as we continue to extend our footprint across
Europe.”
He further added: “HANetf is seeing
rapid growth across our product range and AUM. Our product pipeline is strong and we need to
build the team to support that growth. HANetf can launch an ETF in 8 weeks,
providing a cost- and time efficient solution to small, medium and large asset
managers who are realising they need the ETF wrapper in their locker. Having an
experienced and effective distribution team is an important foundation to the
offering.”
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