Julian Jaffe Joins LIQUITY As Director Of Operations And Technology

LIQUITY has appointed Julian Jaffe as Director of Operations and Technology. He has a remit to strengthen the board of directors and take the leadership role in designing and implementing the company’s high-level technology strategy.

LIQUITY provides a unique platform that brings together qualified investors and sellers of unquoted company shares. LIQUITY provides investors with the opportunity to connect with profitable, established, high-growth, private UK companies. It provides shareholders with the opportunity to sell some or all of their shareholding.

“LIQUITY is innovating to solve customer needs. Julian’s leadership will allow LIQUITY greater levels of technological and service innovation. His input will lead to time and money savings for our customers and he’ll be playing a vital role in creating liquidity within the private company marketplace. There is £300bn market of frozen equity out there” explained LIQUITY CEO Barry Shrier.

A technically minded trouble-shooter, Julian has been an instrumental member of the teams that launched the Interactive Investor retail finance website (with over 1.5 million users) and Marketpipe’s Bond Trading B2B market hub (handling primary issue transactions for over 20 investment banks). He has a significant background in software development, management and directorship in companies ranging from SQL Systems to Oracle and Interleaf.

“I am delighted to be taking a non-exec role that will allow me to dig deep into the technical aspects of LIQUITY’s platform – ensuring high performance and operational excellence at every level” commented Julian on his appointment.