Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE:BR) today announced the appointment of Manuel Baptista as Managing Director, Head of Investor Communication Solutions International (ICSI) Sales.
Baptista will be in charge of the company’s sales team and will support the growth of Broadridge’s ICSI portfolio of services. He will collaborate with custodians, issuers, institutional investors and intermediaries to help steer them through market and regulatory changes including the recently amended EU Directive on Shareholder Rights.
Baptista joins Broadridge from ISS’s Global Proxy Distribution, which he headed and was in charge of the division’s overall strategy. He has over 20 years’ experience gained from positions in Communications, Operations, and the management of Sub-custodian networks at the Bank of New York and Euroclear.
He will work from Broadridge’s Belgian office under Bob Santangelo, the President of International Sales.
Broadridge recently appointed Tim Gokey to its Board of Directors, while Chris Perry was elected to the Financial Services Institute’s (FSI) Board of Directors.