Arria NLG PLC Appointment of Christopher Messina
February 26 2014 - 6:07AM
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Arria NLG PLC
26 February 2014
26 February 2014
Arria NLG plc
("Arria", the "Company" or the "Group")
Appointment of Senior Vice President, Business Development
Arria NLG plc (AIM: NLG), a leader in the development and
deployment of Natural Language Generation ("NLG") technologies,
announces the appointment of Christopher Messina as Senior Vice
President, Business Development.
Mr. Messina has strong, international experience in capital
markets, private equity and financial technology. He comes to Arria
after being CEO and Co-Founder of RPA Capital, LLC, a New York- and
Bermuda-based alternative asset management firm focused on private
credit and physical commodity trading.
He was formerly Managing Partner of Mannahatta Partners, LLC, a
New York-based specialist financial services advisory firm focused
on investment product structuring, exchange-traded and OTC
derivatives markets and private equity transactions, where he
advised multiple global exchanges, private equity firms and
sovereign wealth funds. Prior to Mannahatta Partners, Mr. Messina
was the Chief Operating Officer for the Global Futures business at
ICAP plc.
He has worked with Goldman Sachs in New York and Goldman Sachs
JBWere in Australia in operational risk, proprietary investments
and quantitative research. While at Goldman Sachs in 1999, he was
part of the team that created BrokerTec Global, the
fully-electronic, fixed income inter-dealer broker that was
acquired by ICAP in 2003.
He has an AB in Anthropology from the University of Chicago,
where he was a National Merit Scholar, and an MBA in Finance from
the Australian Graduate School of Management.
He has worked in the USA, Africa, Europe, Australia, and the
Middle East. A contributing author to Shari'ah Compliant Private
Equity: A Primer for the Executive (Euromoney Books, 2010), he has
lectured on derivatives and Shar'iah finance at law schools and
conferences globally. Mr. Messina is a member of Business
Executives for National Security and the New York Coal Trade
Association.
He will be based in Arria's New York office, with a global focus
on business development, initially in the institutional capital and
derivatives markets, corporate risk management and commodity
infrastructure and logistics.
Stuart Rogers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arria NLG
plc, commented:
"Bringing someone of Christopher's experience to Arria adds
clear further strength to our business development capabilities.
His career has seen him work across the globe with its diverse
cultures, and apply his considerable knowledge to a long line of
success stories, including some of the world's preeminent financial
institutions. With his extensive background, Christopher
understands the mission critical requirements for financial
exchanges and trading systems and will be a great benefit to our
appreciation and knowledge, as we look to move further into this
sizeable market. He is a strong addition to our team."
Christopher Messina commented:
"Over a 20 year career in investment banking, derivatives
structuring and alternative asset management, I have seen a great
deal of what works and what does not when it comes to the
application of leading-edge technology to real-world business
processes. I have rarely come across a technology that has such
potential to transform the way we turn an ever-increasing sea of
data into actionable information at lightning speed. I am delighted
to be working with Arria NLG to develop applications for the NLG
Engine across industries, ranging from the fundamental institutions
of the global capital markets to enterprise risk management - in
short, anywhere that Big Data runs up against human analytical
bandwidth constraints. In ten years' time, one will be hard-pressed
to find a large, complex company that has not embraced Natural
Language Generation in its core processes."
Contacts:
Arria NLG plc Tel +44 (0) 20 7100 4540
Stuart Rogers,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Allenby Capital, Nominated Adviser Tel: +44 (0) 20 3328 5656
and Broker
Jeremy Porter
Nick Naylor
James Reeve
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Walbrook, Financial PR and IR Tel: 44 (0) 20 7933 8792
Bob Huxford arria@walbrookpr.com
Guy McDougall
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Background
ARRIA NLG plc
Arria is a UK headquartered software development business. Its
core product, the Arria NLG Engine, originated from research at the
University of Aberdeen, a leading institution in the field of
Natural Language Generation. Arria's target is to be the global
leader in the development and deployment of mission critical, core
industrial, enterprise level NLG software technologies.
Its technology is already deployed in a mission critical
environment, monitoring large-scale industrial machinery located on
oil and gas production platforms in deepwater Gulf of Mexico for a
major global oil and gas company. It is also in use at the UK Met
Office.
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