Former CME Europe chief operating officer David Feltes and Barclays' head of executive development Hana Searson have joined the board at prop trading firm Divento Financials. 

Feltes and Searson have joined the Divento boardas non-executive directors, a spokesperson confirmed.

Feltes

Feltes was most recently chief operating officer of CMEGroup’s European exchange in London.

He left CME Europe in October last year, as reported by FOW, after serving as COO of the exchange for nearly three years. He joined the US exchange group fromOliver Wyman where he was a consultant after a 16 year prop tradingcareer at Marquette where he held a number of senior roles including chiefexecutive officer.

He is now serving as chief operating officer at consultancy AfricanAdvisory Partners.

Searson has been with Barclays for the last six years andcurrently serves as head of executive development at the bank – a role she tookon in January – as well as director of Barclays’ Leadership Academy. Beforethis she spent 11 years at Reuters and then Thomson Reuters.

The trading firm, headed up by James Sullivan, offersspecialised training, guidance and risk management for futures traders.

Operating out of Tower 42 in the City of London, the propfirm’s trader trading academy offers access to experienced traders withdedicated instruction on fundamental analysis, technical analysis, algorithmictrading and market-making.

In September last year Divento's trading academylaunched the 'Level 5 Financial Trading Diploma.’