Pacific Fund Systems Announces New Appointments

Pacific Fund Systems Limited (PFS), the leading global provider of fully integrated fund administration software via its award winning PFS-PAXUS application and its web portal PFS-CONNECT, have announced further appointments to both its’ growing Australian and European offices.

Mr Emmanuel Gounakis has joined PFS in a senior management role to oversee and manage the operations and activities of PFS’ Sydney office.  Emmanuel has enjoyed a long career in the fund industry, most recently with a large Australian wealth management company as head of Finance and Fund accounting in their global infrastructure group.  Emmanuel is an expert in the area of Private Equity administration and will bring his knowledge and expertise to the fore as PFS continues to expand their full range of PE administration functionality currently available within the PFS-PAXUS system.

Joining the PFS European offices are Mr Anthony Rundle and Miss Cara Wrench.  Anthony has relocated from South Africa where he has spent 22 years in IT roles, primarily providing technical and administrative support and as a hardware specialist.  As IT infrastructure manager at PFS, Anthony will have responsibility for the oversight of group networks, including the groups new PFS-CLOUD SaaS offering and PFS’ internal DaaS platform.  

Cara joins the group as Sales and Marketing Officer and brings with her over 10 years fund administration experience gained using PFS-PAXUS software.  Cara will be assisting the management team with day to day client administration and the ongoing distribution and onboarding of PFS-PAXUS across the global marketplace.

Paul Kneen, CEO of PFS, said ‘I am delighted that Emmanuel, Anthony and Cara have joined the PFS team.  Their respective extensive experience of the industry we operate in, will be invaluable as we continue to further strengthen operations and develop our products and services as we focus on delivering world-class fund administration technology to a rapidly expanding international client base’.