Roberto Rivero has been appointed sales and marketing manager for the information services division of the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

Rivero has been working at the exchange for a year on a contract basis. Prior to this he was marketing director at Royalblue, the UK-based financial software company, with responsibility for its Fidessanet trading system. Before that he was product marketing director at Primark and later Thomson Financial. Rivero left Thomson Financial during its period of major reorganisation in 2001. He reports to David Lester, chief technology officer at the LSE.