smartTrade Technology Appoints Lionel Sancenot as Global Head of Sales

smarttrade smartTrade Technology, the provider of multi-asset electronic trading technology has added Lionel Sancenot as Global Head of Sales. The firm has also changed priorities and modified the responsibilities of its Chief Development Officer, in a measure to strengthen senior management and sales team. 

According to the statement, the firm has appointed Chief Business Development Officer Annalisa Sarasini in charge of its Business Development strategy to lead the company through its next stage.

Lionel Sancenot has actually joined the firm in November last year, according to his recent LinkedIn update and has assumed the management of Sales Operations. During his career, he has worked with multiple organisations in several positions such as Managing Director of Amundi Services at Amundi, Head of Business Development Financial Markets at IRESS and Executive Vice President at SunGard Financial Systems.

Sancenot commented on his role at smartTrade: “I’m very pleased to join a company such as smartTrade, which possesses a strong track record, a unique technology and great solutions. I am looking forward to scaling up the capabilities in terms of sales in order to support our clients’ expansion and projects.”

David Vincent, the CEO of smartTrade said: “I’m delighted to welcome Lionel to smartTrade, I’m sure his experience will add great value to our team. I’m also looking forward to working closely with Annalisa and benefitting from her strategic vision to support our expansion. These changes will be extremely beneficial for our clients and partners which in turn will assist in the development of the company.

360T, the Forex unit of Deutsche Borse Elevates Sales Director, John Marchese to Head North American Corporate Sales Team

360T, the forex unit of Deutsche Borse has appointed John Marchese its current Sales Director to head the company’s North American corporate sales team. Marchese has joined 360T as the Head of Corporate Sales. He has been in the trading industry since 2002 and had held numerous senior level positions within the industry ranging from prime brokerage, forex and sales.

He has worked with organisations including UBS, Bear Stearns & Co and AllianceBernstein. Most recently, he was working with Refinitiv’s FXall, an institutional foreign exchange trading platform.

In his own words, Marchese is a “driven, top-performing Sales Director with a proven track record of exceeding results in the trading technology and financial services industries. Excels in building deep, long-standing relationships with clients, and going the extra mile so they can achieve their goals. Skilled in Sales, Client Relationship Management, Foreign Exchange (FX), Currency Trading, Trading Systems, and Prime Brokerage.”