Apex adds to European teams

Apex Fund Services has made three senior appointments across its London and Luxembourg offices.

Sonja-Maria Hilkhuijsen and Gareth Williams join the fund administrator’s Luxembourg office, and Nitin Khanapurkar will relocate from the UAE to Apex’s London office, according to a statement from the firm.

Hilkhuijsen has been appointed head of European compliance and data from her role as chief compliance officer at State Street Bank in Luxembourg, where she worked for more than two years. Prior to this she held various senior legal and compliance roles within large custodian banks.

“The EU regulatory framework is growing more and more and leading service providers like Apex face daily challenges around implementing new rules into existing processes and systems without unnecessary disruption of business. I intend to address implementation of these regulatory requirements with a proactive attitude, a pragmatic approach and a tailored solution to ensure that aside of compliance with regulatory requirement a unique Apex client experience is created,” said Hilkhuijsen.

Williams joins the fund administrator as managing director of the Luxembourg office from his role as senior vice president at JP Morgan. In this role he was responsible for driving the product development and overseeing the end-to-end service delivery to mutual funds in Luxembourg, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany and Austria, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Khanapurkar has been hired as global head of risk and compliance and brings more than 25 years of experience. Most recently he worked as a senior partner at KPMG for more than six years. Prior to this he worked as a partner at Deloitte in India.

“In the current environment, risk and compliance is an integral part of global operations and it warrants the highest level of integrity and diligence. Having a robust risk and compliance framework is a critical success factor for financial service firms, not just for survival but also for growth,” Khanapurkar said.