IS Prime, part of ISAM Capital Markets, an alternative investment manager specialising in quantitative investing, has expanded its institutional sales team with the appointments of Jodie Barrett and Daniel Lewis and.
As a prime of prime, IS Prime provides aggregated pricing sourced from tier-one institutions, settled through the group’s bank prime brokers. ISAM Capital Markets also includes IS Prime Hong Kong and risk management specialist, IS Risk Analytics.
Barrett joins from technology specialist, Pirum where she was a business support specialist for just under a year. Prior to that, she was client service associate at MarketAxess for a year.
Lewis joins the team from ATFX where he was a relationship manager specialising in spread betting. Prior to that, he spent two years as a corporate trader at Firma Foreign Exchange.
Based in London, Barrett and Lewis will report to Paul Jackson, sales director. Jackson says IS Prime has invested in growing the sales team in order to facilitate the increased demand for its services and to maximise opportunities for further growth.
“Over the last financial year, as reported when we released our results, IS Prime virtually doubled its turnover in Europe and saw major growth in Asia and the Middle East. Since then, we have continued to expand across all regions,” he says.
“Daniel and Jodie both have a proven track record in forging strong client relationships and we are delighted to welcome them to the IS Prime team.”
Barrett says: “I am excited to have joined such a dynamic, fast growing firm and to be playing a role in their continued growth by selling IS Prime’s customisable liquidity, technology and risk services.”
