Richard joined Hobart as the Systems Manager in 2005 before becoming Head of Operations at the end of 2008. Richard began with the objective of producing a state of the art straight through processing solution for the company to enable Hobart to offer an unrivalled service to its clients. As Head of Operations he is responsible for overseeing IT, Middle/Back Office, Risk and all outsourced services and systems. Recently Richard has been heavily involved with the development of ‘HALO’ and our automated in house reporting systems.
Richard began his career with Tullett Prebon broking Interest Derivatives before moving into IT as a consultant for Investmaster Group Limited in 1998. Richard has worked closely with our CEO Colin Thomas for a number of years before joining him at Hobart in 2005.
Martin is the Financial Controller of Hobart Capital Markets. Martin's responsibilities include management accounting, budgeting, FSA and statutory reporting as well as overseeing the sales and purchase ledger, payroll, benefits and treasury functions.
Martin began his career at Cofunds Ltd, before moving to Mellon Bank for over four years, where he worked in a number of roles and qualified as a chartered management accountant. He moved to Dawnay Day International Ltd as a management accountant, before joining Hobart Capital Markets in August 2008.
Andre is responsible Internal Compliance Monitoring and assists with all areas of the middle office operation when required.
His career began with addressing regulatory/operational issues whilst with Centrica Telecommunications between 2001 - 2004. He worked with the Dawnay Day group as an IT administrator from March 2007 before joining Hobart Capital Markets in September 2008.