People Patsystems has announced a series of appointments and promotions as part of its expansion of US business. Among them, Pat Kenny has been named md of Patsystems North America. Kenny has led the company's US sales operations for the past two years. Pats has also named Dean Giordano as coo, based in the firm's Chicago office. He joins from Strategic Technology Consulting, a company he founded. He has worked in the futures industry since 1992 and has spent six years at Chicago Board of Trade. Larry Beck has joined Patsystems' New York office as sales manager. He was previously sales manager at Trading Technologies. Beck has also worked as a sales executive and project manager at Securities Dealing Systems and has traded at New...