Woodford Investment Management (WIM) has bolstered its back office team by appointing Simon Osborne as head of compliance and Gavin St. John-Heath as chief risk operations officer.
Osborne most recently served as senior vice president at US-based fund group Nuveen Investments where he worked since 2010, and has already joined Woodford in the new role.
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Before this, he worked for eight years at PIMCO, in London and at its Newport Beach headquarters, where he was responsible for managing teams in compliance divisions.
St. John-Heath, who will join in his new capacity from January 1, has been hired from BlueQuant Capital Management.
He holds over eight years of experience managing various senior risk management and compliance roles across different market sectors with several leading companies, such as Petronas Energy Trading.
Commenting on the new appointments, Craig Newman, chief executive of WIM, said, "As our business continues to grow, the demands placed on our legal and compliance operation will intensify.
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By GlobalData"We have brought in experienced specialists to help implement procedures, which will cement our goal of building a fund management company that has the cutting-edge operational platform needed in a regulation-heavy, post-financial crisis world, " adds Newman.
Woodford has also hired David Brailsford from IBM in the role of data architecture delivery manager, and Vimal Patel as business analyst from Abu-Dhabi-based sovereign wealth manager Mubadala Development Company, where he was designated as head of investment systems.
