Marex Group, a Nasdaq-listed diversified financial services platform, has appointed Robert Cheeseman as head of prime services for Asia.
Cheeseman has over 25 years of experience across listed derivatives, prime services and electronic trading, with extensive expertise in Asia-Pacific markets.
He was managing director and co-head of client development at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing ( HKEX ), where he focused on client development and building a global presence.
Prior to HKEX, he spent almost four years at Credit Suisse as managing director and head of APAC prime derivatives services, leading trading teams across Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and Mumbai.
Earlier in his career, Cheeseman was head of APAC cross-asset listed derivatives execution at Morgan Stanley and worked at Goldman Sachs for almost a decade, initially in cash equity electronic trading in London and subsequently in Hong Kong in listed derivatives sales and trading.
At Marex, Cheeseman will oversee the firm’s prime services business in Asia, driving growth across prime brokerage and outsourced trading. His focus will be on supporting hedge funds, asset managers, family offices and institutional clients with the infrastructure and services they need to launch and scale.
He will work closely with the firm’s global and other regional co-heads to help shape the division’s growth strategy and strengthen its position as a leading provider of institutional prime services globally.
London-based Marex primarily serves as a specialized marketplace middleman. It connects institutional clients, corporate commodity producers, and financial trading firms to global energy, metals, agricultural and environmental markets.
