Axioma has appointed Christopher Woida as managing director, index solutions, responsible for strategy, development and sales.

Woima was previously an investment strategist at BlockRock, where he helped to build the company’s smart beta and factor-based platforms. He contributed to the design of the company’s first fixed income smart beta ETF, and its quantitative fixed income liquid alternatives mutual fund. More recently, he was the lead investment strategist for BlackRock’s flagship style factor hedge fund.