As Business Development Manager, Achim will help drive Dion's growth in the European market across the DACH region.

Achim joins Dion from Oracle where he was a Sales Executive responsible for Integrated Risk and Finance applications in the German banking market. He brings more than twenty years of experience to the role having worked in business development and sales for financial technology firms including Metastorm, Sungard and Odyssey Financial Technologies (acquired by Temenos).

With a deep understanding of the technology needs of financial market participants, Achim has a proven track record in delivering integrated solutions that solve clients' most challenging business issues concerning regulation, cost control, and adapting to changing business environments and models.

"Technology offers firms in the financial markets the opportunity to transform and grow their business while meeting ever-growing demands around compliance, efficiency and transparency," said Achim. "Dion's market-leading technology is based on an unrivalled understanding of workflows and straight-through processing. The ability to integrate multiple processes and systems within a single underlying platform is critical to achieving long-term operational efficiency and agility and means firms no longer need to solve problems in isolation."

Antony Bream, European Sales Director at Dion added: "Achim's experience spans many sectors of the financial services industry, from wealth management to banking and trading systems, and matches the breadth and depth of our product offering. His appointment further enhances our ability to provide expertise across the capital markets and wealth management with the advantage of a single point of contact for multiple solutions."

Dion provides solutions to investment, retail and commercial banks, institutional traders and investors and private client wealth managers and stockbrokers.