Northern Trust has made a series of senior hires across its Sydney and Melbourne offices in response to business expansion and enhanced local product capabilities.

Tania Tuxford and David McWilliams have been hired as business development managers in Northern Trust’s Sydney and Melbourne offices, respectively, to drive future growth across its asset servicing business. A senior equity program trader, Simon McDonough, has been appointed in Sydney.

Tuxford and McWilliams will drive sales across Northern Trust’s institutional business servicing asset owners and asset managers in the Australasia region. They report to Angelo Calvitto, head of sales for corporate and institutional services in Asia-Pacific.

Based in Sydney, Tuxford, was most recently a senior relationship manager with ANZ Wealth. She has also worked at Citi and RBC Investor Services, in Australia.

Based in Melbourne, McWilliams joins from J.P. Morgan Investor Services where he was a senior relationship and sales manager. He has worked at ANZ Custodian Services, Bank of New York in London, Mercury Asset Management Ltd and State Street.

McDonough has been hired to lead the expansion of Northern Trust’s trading desk capabilities in Sydney. He reports to Robert Arnott, manager for Northern Trust’s institutional brokerage business in Asia.

McDonough joins from ITG in Sydney where he was vice president, electronic sales and trading. He has more than 20 years of industry experience trading Asia-Pacific equity markets on both the buy and sell side working for firms such as Deutsche Asset Management, ABN Amro and JP Morgan.