HANetf appoints new senior hires to build on its strong growth
HANetf, Europe’s first full
services ‘white label’ UCITS ETF issuer, is delighted to confirm that it has appointed
new hires in its Sales, Marketing and Product Teams.
Simon Dale joins HANetf as
Head of Sales. He will be responsible
for the company sales strategy across Europe, and its implementation. In
particular, he will focus on helping HANetf grow its active ETF offering and
further automating the sales process. Simon has previously held senior sales
and business development roles at several asset management companies including Heads
of Sales at Woodford Investment Management, Matthews Asia and Invesco. He has nearly
30 years’ distribution experience and will add significantly to the HANetf
distribution and leadership team. He will also become a member of the firm’s
executive team.
Liam Wyatt joins the
Marketing as Content Manager and Investment Writer. Liam joins HANetf from MitonOptimal where he
was Marketing and Operations Manager.
Ramon Williams joins
HANetf as Operations Analyst. Ramon
joins HANetf from Fulcrum Asset Management where he was Team Lead and
Operations Associate.
In February 2021, HANetf
appointed Manooj Mistry as Chief Operating Officer where he was formerly CEO of
DWS Investments UK Limited and Head of Xtrackers ETFs and Index Investing at
DWS.
The new appointments join as HANetf’s assets
under management have reached over $2.5 billion in recent weeks. At the start of this year, AUM was around
$1.12 billion.
Co-CEO of HANetf, Hector
McNeil, said: “HANetf currently offer 14 ETFs, and have a pipeline
of 15 ETF launches planned for later this year. Simon, Liam and Ramon bring a
huge amount of experience, which we will use to further enhance our distribution
and product strategy and growth.
With nearly 30 years of
experience, Simon brings an unparalleled knowledge of active fund sales which
we see as a huge growth opportunity for HANetf and the European ETF industry
more generally. We have several active
ETFs in the immediate pipeline and expect it to be at least 20% of our offering
over time. Simon is the right level of senior appointment for HANetf, which is
one of the fastest growing ETF firms in Europe and globally.”