Copperdime, the leading global provider of next generation retail trading platforms, today announced the appointment of Rob Kirby as Head of Sales and Partnerships for Asia Pacific. This will help build out its already excellent relationships in the region and enable Copperdime to establish itself as the market leading retail trading platform in Asia Pacific.

Steve Bradford, VP Global Sales & Partnerships, commented: “We have been looking for someone for quite some time, who is well respected by the clients and partners in the region and who will help ensure our market propositions meet the needs of the Asia Retail marketplace. We are delighted to have found and attracted Rob to Copperdime and see it as a resounding endorsement for what we are trying to achieve that Rob agreed to join us!”

Rob has over 20 years of financial services experience in Asia. Having worked in both institutional and retail sales – this gives Rob an extensive understanding of our clients e-trading requirements and their long term business needs. For the last 5 years Rob’s focus has been on providing multi asset class online trading systems and bespoke white labelling solutions to financial institutions in the region. He commented “I first came across Copperdime during my previous role in Singapore. Having dealt with them first hand, I was extremely impressed with their technology and its dedicated team of people. In Asia, we continue to see an upward trend of online retail trading and an increasing popularity of new asset classes. As a result, there is a strong demand for reliable, advanced and easy to use retail trading solutions. “

“Our new regional base in Singapore is perfectly positioned to assist our Asian clients in meeting their trading objectives. The Copperdime systems enable our clients to enhance their retail product offering from a single trading screen, comprehensive risk management and back office system. Copperdime also provides flexible infrastructure that can be integrated to complement our clients existing architecture. The response from my clients confirm that Copperdime solutions are a perfect fit with what they are trying to achieve from a technical requirement and on a commercial basis. ”

Copperdime, the leading global provider of next generation retail trading platforms, today announced the appointment of Jonathan Rose as CEO and Steve Bradford as Vice President of Global Sales and Partnerships.

Jonathan brings to Copperdime significant commercial and operations experience gained from 5 years as COO of IT at Barclays Bank. As the COO of the business team he developed and launched a new functional strategy to the Barclays business with a responsibility of 800 FTE’s in 4 countries. In his role as IT director he was responsible for the delivery of major IT projects and provision of IT services to the bank. Together with his 9 years at Accenture (a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company), Jonathan has proven skills as a builder of large international teams.

As VP of Global Sales and Partnerships, Steve will be directing our sales team with new business and marketing implementation globally. He has over 15 years experience in new business and market development, having previously worked for major financial service providers, Experian and as European Sales Director for Fair Isaac, leading the organisation to significant sales growth in credit management, collections and recoveries.

Terry Johnston, Director, commented: “We are delighted to have Jonathan and Steve join Copperdime. Their significant experience in defining and delivering enterprise solutions for major financial institutions will add significantly to Copperdime existing track record of developing innovative and powerful trading platforms for our clients.”

Copperdime, the leading global provider of next generation retail trading platforms, is delighted to announce it has received significant new investment from Blenheim Chalcot, a leading UK investment group. Building on the company’s success, this investment will support growth programs including further development of the market leading Copperdime Platform, key new hire on the management team and expansion of global locations to better support clients’ needs.

The company also announced new offices in Singapore and India to support a growing client base in Asia. New offices in New York are planned for the second half of 2010.

Charles Mindenhall, Blenheim Chalcot managing partner, commented: “We have been impressed with the Copperdime team and the business they have built over the last few years. The quality of the Copperdime platform and the client base they have won in a short period of time, convinced us this is a business with significant potential for further development in an exciting industry.”

Adrian Patten, Piers Balmer, and Terry Johnston, the Copperdime executive team commented: “We are delighted to secure the backing of Blenheim Chalcot. The BC team has a proven track record of backing companies with strong growth potential, and we are looking forward to further success with them as a significant investor in the business”.

Charles Mindenhall and David Burnett will join the Board with Charles assuming the role of Chairman.

Charles is co-founder, with Manoj Badale, of Blenheim Chalcot. He is also Chairman of Agilisys, an IT outsourcing group that evolved from netdecisions, which he co-founded. He also co-founded Fluency (a voice recognition company), Eviivo (a leading travel booking platform), Steeltrace (a software tools business), the Rights Company (a media rights business), and TDX Group (the UK’s leading delinquent debt specialist). Charles is a non-executive director of Fairpoint (AIM quoted financial services), Emerging Media (part owners of the Indian Premier League team, the Rajasthan Royals), and Corporate Pay, a prepaid credit card provider. Charles is a founding trustee of Operation Smile UK, and the Chairman of the Charity Technology Trust.

David Burnett is a Partner at TT International, a leading hedge fund and investment manager. Prior to TT International David had spent his career at UBS Warburg and its predecessor companies. He started as an Equity Analyst and went on to hold various roles including, responsibility for the bank’s Russian and South African operations, Head of the Fixed Interest and Treasury Division of SG Warburg and Head of the Japanese Equity business in Tokyo.

About Blenheim Chalcot:

Blenheim Chalcot is a diversified venture capital firm focused on making active investments in the UK and India. Founded by Charles Mindenhall and Manoj Badale, the firm has more than 10 years experience of running, investing in and developing businesses by working closely with entrepreneurs to actively help grow their businesses. Current investments cover a broad range of sectors, with an emphasis on growth and innovation at their core.

Charles Mindenhall, Blenheim Chalcot managing partner, commented: “We have been impressed with the Copperdime team and the business they have built over the last few years. The quality of the Copperdime platform and the client base they have won in a short period of time, convinced us this is a business with significant potential for further development in an exciting industry.”

Adrian Patten, Piers Balmer, and Terry Johnston, the Copperdime executive team commented: “We are delighted to secure the backing of Blenheim Chalcot. The BC team has a proven track record of backing companies with strong growth potential, and we are looking forward to further success with them as a significant investor in the business”.

Adrian Patten, Copperdime CEO, commented: “This is yet another vindication for the unique capabilities of the Copperdime Version 3 core platform. We are very much looking forward to helping this global bank increase the competitive advantage of the FX services provided to its brokerage clients.”

Adrian Patten, Copperdime CEO, commented: “We are delighted that version 3 of the Copperdime platform has been selected to be the core platform to power one of Asia’s most successful brokerage houses. This is a very exciting development for us, and a vindication of the strong multi-asset, multi-tier capabilities that only the Cppperdime platform is able to offer clients”.

Adrian Patten, Copperdime CEO, commented: “We have listened carefully to what our clients tell us they need in order to offer their retail investors a highly differentiated trading experience. Version 3 of the Copperdime platform incorporates complete, flexible and highly integrated multi-asset capabilities, covering CFDs, spread-trading, FX, share and derivatives trading”.