California-based market data technology vendor Vhayu has hired three new directors in Emea, Asia and New York and appointed Gerry Mintz to its advisory board.
Kevin Sullivan has been named director of sales, Emea and will be responsible for local client support activities and growth in the region. He arrives from GoldenSource where he was director of sales, Emea and has held senior sales positions with both Reuters and Tibco in Europe.
Tsuyoshi Inoyama joins as director of support services, Asia and will be based out of the Tokyo office where he will be responsible for expanding the company's presence in the Apacs market. Prior to Vhayu, Inoyama was systems engineer manager at webMethods K.K. in Japan and spent 12 years with Reuters implementing Tibco technology across the Japanese financial industry.
Rama Koduru joins Vhayu as director of client services and will manage support services from the company's New York office. Koduru was previously executive director at Barra and managed the Posit electronic trading system and support team in New York.
Vhayu also added president and CEO of Strategic Financial Solutions Gerry Mintz to its advisory board. Mintz has held senior executive positions at Gartner, Reuters, Fame and Thomson Financial.