Trading Technologies (TT) has made three new appointments to its senior leadership team, including chief operating officer; executive vice president of fixed income; and executive vice president of futures and options – all of which will join the firm on 1 January 2024.
Justin Llewellyn-Jones has been appointed chief operating officer (COO), joining from Broadridge where he most recently served as chief product officer and head of capital markets, North America (equities, FX and derivatives).
Elsewhere in his career, Llewellyn-Jones served as global head of derivatives at ION after over 14 years with Fidessa, which was acquired by ION in 2018.
While at Fidessa, he served as global head of derivatives for over six years and COO Americas for more than eight years.
As part of his new role at TT, Llewellyn-Jones will be responsible for the firm’s market-facing business to drive its multi-asset growth, alongside the heads of each business line.
Meanwhile, Christopher Heffernan has been appointed executive vice president of fixed income, bringing over two decades worth of experience in fixed income sales and trading, business development and leadership roles.
Heffernan will join from Flow Traders, where he has been head of fixed income sales since 2019.
Prior to that, Heffernan served at SumRidge Partners, initially as one of the original founding employees and later becoming director of institutional sales.
Heffernan began his career at Morgan Stanley in 2001, where he served as vice president in fixed income for more than eight years, with roles on both the sales and trading desks.
At TT, he is set to focus on building the firm’s global fixed income business.
Elsewhere, Alun Green will join TT as executive vice president of futures and options, responsible for expanding the firm’s core futures and options franchise.
Green joins from Fidelity Information Service (FIS), where he served as managing director, derivatives utility for the past eight years, following the firm’s acquisition of SunGard in 2015.
He also previously served as executive vice president and head of strategy, post-trade derivatives and securities at FIS.
While at SunGard, Green held multiple roles including senior vice president, global head of operations, as well as, executive vice president, deputy head, derivatives utility prior to the FIS acquisition.
Keith Todd, chief executive of TT, said: “As we continue to grow into new asset classes and significantly broaden our appeal to the buy-side, we have been steadily fortifying our leadership team – as well as subject matter experts within each of our newly aligned business lines – with seasoned professionals to ensure we have all the building blocks in place to achieve our ambitious goals.
“Justin, Chris and Alun bring to the team a wealth of talent, skills, experience and deep relationships, and we’re thrilled to have them join TT in the new year.”