Eventus Appoints in Australia

Robbie McDonnell has joined trade surveillance and market risk solution provider Eventus in Sydney as sales director, Australia and New Zealand.

Most recently, McDonnell ran a consultancy business specialising in risk management and anti-money laundering (AML) systems. He also was CEO of Confideregroup, a business mentoring and executive coaching business in Sydney.

Prior to this he held numerous sales roles over the course of 20 years at Chicago-based Trading Technologies, including from 2016 to 2018 as managing director of sales for APAC, operating out of Sydney. He also served as global head of sales in Chicago, led operations in Europe and the Middle East from London, and drove expansion across APAC. Earlier in his career, he held sales management roles at Future Source Tradestation, Dow Jones Markets and Allied Irish Bank.

McDonnell will report to Scott Leader, managing director, APAC, at Eventus, who says, “[Robbie] brings extensive capital markets sales and global technology experience and a strong track record of building relationships with sell-side and buy-side clients, as well as exchanges, over the course of his career.”