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Richard Hills Joins BIG XYT as Head of Client Engagement

big xyt - Richard HillsBig xyt, the Germany based independent market data analytics provider revealed in a recent announcement that it has onboarded Mr. Richard Hills to serve as its new Head of Client Engagement. In his new role, Richard will be based out of firm’s London office and work alongside Mr. Mark Montgomery the Head of Strategy and Business Development to accelerate the implementation of big xyt’s strategic business plans. Also Richard will be responsible for driving client innovation using partnership engagement model and handle promotional activities pertaining to creating awareness among the firm’s clients to ensure they gain a full picture on products and services offered by the firm. The firm hopes that by creating awareness among its clients, the firm’s partners will increasingly choose to adopt and integrate big xyt’s technology into their daily workflow which in turn would benefit the clients of both the firm and its partners.

Mark Montgomery, Director of Strategy & Business Development at big xyt
Mark Montgomery, Director of Strategy & Business Development at big xyt

Before taking up his current role at the firm, Richard served as Global Co-Head of Cash Equities Execution division at Societe Generale which encompasses electronic, program trading and high touch execution. He is well known in the bank for his efforts in building and launching its equities electronic trading business. He joined the French bank back in September of 2001in the role of COO and Program Director and had been a part of the bank for nearly two decades at time of his resignation from the firm. Earlier in his career he served as Senior Consulting Manager at Anderson Consulting for nearly 9 years prior to which he served as Systems Engineer at IBM for nearly 5 years. Given his multi-decade long career history he is an expert in multiple areas such as trading technologies, electronic trading, cash equities, business management and strategy.

Speaking about his new role at the firm, Richard said, “The investment industry is undergoing rapid and fundamental change, driven by greater passive investment, falling fees and more regulation. I see scalable, high performance technology and data driven automation as the key to survival and success. Big xyt’s Best Execution and TCA off-the-shelf analytics products demonstrate the power of this new architecture. I am looking forward to working with the team and enabling clients, including exchanges, sell-side and buy-side firms, to leverage the big xyt product portfolio to gain greater insights in support of their investment decisions and execution strategies. We aim to provide high quality, consistent data and sophisticated analytics tools to a broad range of market participants, where access to such capabilities has previously been the preserve of only those with the deepest pockets”.

Robin Mess
Robin Mess

Speaking about Robert’s addition to executive team, Mark Montgomery said “We are delighted to be adding Richard to our team. He has a great reputation amongst our community and brings experience, market knowledge and client trust with him. At a time when we have exciting new content ready for release, he will help us share the benefits of our unique capabilities to a larger cross section of the community”.

Speaking on same note, Robin Mess – CEO of Big xyt added “After successfully expanding our product and support teams over the last few years we are excited to have Richard onboard to further increase our opportunities. His enthusiasm and expertise will help accelerate our growth with new clients and also provide additional levels of sophistication.”