Calastone has appointed David Zwirn as managing director, head of UK and Ireland sales and relationship management.
Zwirn joins from InvestCloud where he served as head of sales.
He will be responsible for defining and implementing the UK and Ireland business development strategy, as well as building and managing a growing sales team across the region.
In addition, he will manage Calastone’s network of client relationships as the business migrates its infrastructure onto blockchain technology.
Zwirn joins Calastone with 28 years of sales experience in the financial services industry, with specific knowledge of fintech and data services businesses.
Julien Hammerson, CEO of Calastone, commented: “We are delighted to welcome David Zwirn to Calastone’s senior management team. Zwirn brings a wealth of commercial leadership experience from across the financial and technology sectors and will play an important role as we introduce our new blockchain-enabled distributed market infrastructure in May.”
Commenting on his new role, Zwirn said: “I am very excited to be joining Calastone just as the business launches its distributed market infrastructure.”
He added: “The company’s new technology offers significant opportunities both for its global customer base and for the funds industry as a whole. I very much look forward to working with the team and its growing client base as we enter this exciting new phase.”
