eVestment has named Maria Simon vice president of client success for the company’s Nordic region, Germany and Austria. She will be based in parent company Nasdaq’s Copenhagen office at Nikolaj Plads 6.

The institutional investment data and analytics firm is looking expand its operations in the fast-growing northern European region, formerly led from eVestment’s London office.

In this position, Ms Simon will be responsible for leading regional business development, client relationship management and data collection efforts in the region.

She will be presenting at Fund Forum International in Copenhagen in June, one of her first roles at the company. Ms Simon will also be staffing the eVestment Fund Forum booth, and explaining to conference members the benefits of institutional investment professionals when trying to understand market trends and have better outcomes for their work. This will include disclosing the findings from eVestment’s new State of Institutional Separate Accounts Fees report.

Ms Simon has previously performed a number of roles for eVestment. She has led global marketing efforts for eVestment’s asset manager and investor segments and served as a project lead on eVestment’s ESG data collection and reporting project. Prior to joining eVestment, she held client relationship positions with LocalTapiola Asset Management and Altfest Personal Wealth Management.

She holds an MBA and BBA from Pace University in New York and in addition to English, she speaks Swedish and Finnish.

Commenting on her new appointment, Ms Simon said: “I’m excited to take on the challenge of growing eVestment’s business and working with our clients in northern Europe. Our growth in the region has been strong and the time was right to build on our commitment to our clients and our business development efforts here. I’m looking forward to traveling around the region to personally meet our clients and expand eVestment’s local institutional network in each country.”