State Street Global Markets (SSGM) has announced several transition management appointments to its global portfolio solutions group.
The newly-hired senior transition managers are Greg Metzmacher in Sydney, Brian Berg and Brian Moniz in Boston, and Tadateru Makino in Tokyo.
SSGM said Metzmacher was one of Australia’s most experienced transition managers, having previously held roles at Mellon Transition Management and at Citigroup, where he helped establish transition management operations in Europe and Australia.
Berg joins SSGM from Investment Technology Group, where he was responsible for business development for execution and order management systems, as well as account management for key North American institutional clients.
Moniz, who will focus on the interim exposure offering, has held various positions at State Street since joining the firm in 1995, and most recently managed the middle-office investment team for SSGM.
The group said Makino brought to the company over a decade of experience in the transition management business as both a quantitative consultant and in derivative and hedge fund product sales at Nomura and Goldman Sachs.
SSGM senior managing director and portfolio solutions group head Ross McLellan said the business was pleased to expand the talent within its global transition management team with the new appointments.
“Their unique perspective and combined industry expertise of nearly 50 years will bring significant strength to our transition management group, particularly as we experience continued business momentum,” McLellan said.
SSGM is the investment research, trading and securities lending arm of State Street Corporation.
Its transition management team operated on a 24-hour a day basis from offices in London, Boston, Sydney, Toronto and Tokyo, and provided services for more than 1000 transition management customers worldwide, the group said.
