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Job Bank – Oct. 17
The following are job changes within the financial industry for Oct. 17, linked where possible to personal profiles on LinkedIn. To inform us of other job changes, please e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com.
DELOITTE FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICES LLP The unit of Deloitte LLP said it is expanding its real estate consulting practice with the addition of Constantine Korologos, who will be based in New York. He is also a managing director for Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC.
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LTD Australia’s third-largest lender hired David Goode, formerly a portfolio manager at Challenger Financial Services Group, to join its Treasury team, a market source said.
IMPAX GROUP PLC The environmental investment company appointed Charlie Ridge as chief operating officer. Before joining Impax, Ridge was a managing director within the finance division of Deutsche Bank, most recently serving as UK Asset and Wealth Management CFO.
Job Bank – Oct. 16
The following are job changes within the financial industry for Oct. 14 – 15, linked where possible to personal profiles on LinkedIn. To inform us of other job changes, please e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com.
RODMAN & RENSHAW The U.S. investment bank named Michael G. King, Jr. to the newly created role of head of healthcare. He was previously director of research at the firm. The firm also said Christopher James, formerly a senior associate analyst working for King, had rejoined the firm and will assume esearch coverage of many of King’s stocks.
SIGNAL HILL The Baltimore-based specialty investment banking, research and institutional brokerage firm said it has expanded its technology practice by adding Neeraj Vohra, managing director, and Henry Sage, director, to its investment banking team. Both of them will be based in the firm’s Baltimore office.
ARBUTHNOT SECURITIES The investment banking arm of Arbuthnot Banking Group, appointed Nicholas Tulloch as the new head of corporate finance. Tulloch, who will join in January 2009, joins Arbuthnot Securities from Altium, where he was managing director on the corporate finance team, specialising in the technology sector.
BANK OF INDIA The state-run bank said B.A. Prabhakar has taken over as its executive director with effect from Wednesday. Prabhakar was general manager with Bank of Baroda and looked after its treasury operations prior to his current appointment.
BRAVEHEART INVESTMENT GROUP PLC The technology-focused investment firm appointed Colin Grant as its chief financial officer effective Oct. 15. Grant joins from Digital Bridges Ltd, a provider of mobile entertainment software, where he was chief financial officer and company secretary.
Job Bank – Oct 14-15
The following are job changes within the financial industry for Oct. 14 – 15, linked where possible to personal profiles on LinkedIn. To inform us of other job changes, please e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com.
PIMCO The U.S. investment management firm hired Christopher Getter as senior vice president and emerging markets product manager, based in Newport Beach, California. Getter leaves Fidelity, where he was an emerging market debt research analyst.
CANACCORD CAPITAL The Canadian investment dealer appointed John Rothwell executive vice president and head of private client services, beginning Oct. 30. Rothwell was most recently president of Wellington West Capital.
PENN LIBERTY The U.S. community bank appointed H. David Tamimie as senior vice president of commercial and industrial/commercial banking. He was previously senior vice president in Wachovia’s commercial banking division.
PUTNAM INVESTMENTS The Boston-based global money management firm appointed Keith Thomas to senior vice president, head of European consultant relations. Based in London, Thomas is responsible for directing Putnam’s relationships with investment consultants in the United Kingdom and continental Europe.
BROADPOINT SECURITIES GROUP The investment bank elected Victor Mandel to the company’s board of directors. Mandel is the founder and managing member of Criterion Capital Management, an investment company.
Job Bank – Oct. 10
The following are job changes within the financial industry for Oct. 10, linked where possible to personal and company profiles on LinkedIn. To inform us of other job changes, please e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com.
CREDIT SUISSE Laurent Charbonnier will join Credit Suisse as a Director on the Metals & Mining team in the EMEA Energy Group in the Investment Banking Department, starting in December, according to an internal memo. Charbonnier will move to Credit Suisse from UBS AG, where he most recently served as executive director and European head of steel, paper, packaging in global industrial group.
VANGUARD The U.S.-based investment management company announced that Peter Volanakis has been elected to its board of directors. He is president and chief executive of Corning Inc.
HSBC HOLDINGS PLC The parent company of the HSBC Group appointed Marvin Kin Tung Cheung as a director, effective Feb. 1, 2009. Before joining HSBC, Cheung was chairman and chief executive officer of KPMG’s operations in China and Hong Kong from 1996 to 2003.
ING ING Investment Management Australia has hired Bradley Gibson to head interest rate strategy within its fixed income team, the company said. Gibson, who starts on Nov. 3, will report to Greg Michel, director of fixed income. He previously worked at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia as head of global markets in Singapore and AMP Capital Investors in Sydney and London where he was managing fixed income and currency portfolios.
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK PLC The Asia-focused British bank named Peter Wheeler as head of wholesale banking, West. Wheeler, who will be based in London, joins the Wholesale Banking Management Group, effective immediately. COLONIAL FIRST STATE GLOBAL ASSET MANAGEMENT Australia’s largest fund manager said it has hired Annette Mullen as a senior portfolio manager in its fixed interest and credit team. Mullen, who starts on Oct. 27, joins from the New South Wales state Treasury where she managed fixed interest, cash assets and risk. DTZ HOLDINGS The global real estate adviser appointed Paul Idzik as group chief executive officer. Idzik, who will join the company and the board on Nov. 3, was chief operating officer of Barclays plc from 2004 to 2008.
Job Bank – Oct. 9
The following are job changes within the financial industry for Oct. 7, linked where possible to personal and company profiles on LinkedIn. To inform us of other job changes, please e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com.
UBS INVESTMENT BANK The Swiss investment bank said Janine McGrath Shelffo will join its Investment Banking Department (IBD) as a Managing Director in its Technology, Media and Telecommunications Banking group. Prior to this assignment, Shelffo was a managing director and senior coverage banker for the media sector at Lehman Brothers, where she worked since 2004.
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP The New York based assurance, tax and advisory services firm said John McCaffrey has been appointed leader of the U.S. Transaction Services group, and Timothy Hartnett as U.S. Private Equity Leader. McCaffrey previously headed the firm’s U.S. Private Equity group and replaces Michael Burwell, who is now the U.S. firm’s chief financial officer.
RBC CAPITAL MARKETS The Canadian bank’s investment banking arm named Peter Walraven as managing director of the firm’s U.S. Debt Capital Markets efforts for Infrastructure and Project Finance. He will be based in New York. Prior to this appointment, Walraven worked at JP Morgan, most recently as a managing director and a member of that firm’s global private placements group.
MERRILL LYNCH BANK (SUISSE) The investment bank has appointed Mark Kahnau as the new office manager of its Global Wealth Management Zurich branch.
Job Bank – Oct. 7
The following are job changes within the financial industry for Oct. 7, linked where possible to personal and company profiles on LinkedIn. To inform us of other job changes, please e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com.
BLACKROCK U.S. money management firm BlackRock Inc appointed John Athill to its UK institutional account management team as a director. He joins BlackRock from Schroders, where he was a client director for UK Institutional Pension Funds.
GREENHILL & CO INC The investment bank said Christopher Cooke will join the firm as a managing director in its recently formed Fund Placement Group. Cooke, previously at Lehman Brothers, will be based in London.
THREADNEEDLE The fund manager named Nick Ring to the newly created role of global head of product. Ring previously held the position of head of Northern Trust International Wealth Management.
STANFORD FINANCIAL GROUP Stanford Group Co, a member of the Stanford Financial Group said Jeff Ricks and Michael DeGolier have joined Stanford’s Austin Private Client Group office as vice presidents/financial advisors. Stephanie Lewis has joined the company as a client service associate. Ricks and DeGolier join from Banc of America Investment Services Inc in Austin.
HOULIHAN LOKEY The U.S. investment bank specializing in mid-cap companies appointed Cedric Fontenit as senior vice president in its European Corporate Finance team.
Job Bank – Oct 6
The following are job changes within the financial industry for Oct. 3, linked where possible to personal and company profiles on LinkedIn. To inform us of other job changes, please e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com.
ELX ELX, Electronic Liquidity Exchange, said it named Neal Wolkoff as its chief executive officer. The futures exchange said Wolkoff most recently served as chairman and chief executive of the American Stock Exchange and previously as chief operating officer and executive vice president of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
SOCIETE GENERALE CORPORATE & INVESTMENT BANKING The French bank named Francis Repka and Benoit Riehl as chief country officers for Germany and Austria, respectively. Repka previously headed the bank’s fixed income, currency and commodities division for Asia, excluding Japan, and Riehl headed its media and telecommunications sector for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
ALLIANCE TRUST ASSET MANAGEMENT The subsidiary of Alliance Trust Plc appointed Tom Pearson as director and head of UK retail sales, effective Oct. 13th. Pearson is currently director, financial institutions group, at Jupiter.
HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP INC The U.S. insurer appointed Greg McGreevey executive vice president and chief investment officer of the company, and president of its subsidiary Hartford Investment Management Co.
CAMBRIDGE PLACE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT The fund manager appointed Stephen White chief investment officer for Europe. White was previously with Morgan Stanley as a managing director.
Job Bank – Oct. 2
The following are job changes within the financial industry for Oct. 2, linked where possible to personal and company profiles on LinkedIn. To inform us of other job changes, please e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com.
BANK OF AMERICA CORP The bank said John Thain, chief executive of Merrill Lynch & Co Inc, will be president of global banking, securities, and wealth management when his company is acquired by the bank next year.
CITADEL INVESTMENT GROUP LLC The hedge fund said it hired three former Lehman Brothers executives to expand its fixed-income business. Alex Maddox, who had been managing director of securitized products trading at Lehman, will be Citadel’s head of securitized products in Europe. Timothy Bryan Wilkinson, a former head of fixed income proprietary trading at Lehman, and John Alexander Goodridge, will join Citadel’s proprietary trading group. All will report to Patrik Edsparr who joined Citadel from JP Morgan earlier this year as the head of global fixed income and to run the hedge fund’s European division.
HURON CONSULTING GROUP The financial consulting services firm appointed Mark Barnes as a managing director in its health and education consulting practice. Barnes was previously with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. STATE COMPENSATION INSURANCE FUND The state fund announced five executive appointments. It named Jay Stewart as chief financial officer, Harrison Jerome as chief operating officer and Doug Stewart as chief risk officer. It also hired Rebecca Wanta as chief information officer and Carol Newman as general counsel.
WITHERS GROUP The law firm appointed Adam Duthie as a partner in its London corporate team who will take over as head of the European corporate practice. Duthie was previously with Bevan Brittan.
Job Bank – Oct. 1
The following are recent job changes within the financial industry, linked where possible to personal and company profiles on LinkedIn. To inform us of other job changes, please e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com.
FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL MORTGAGE CORP Farmer Mac appointed Michael Gerber as acting president and chief executive officer, succeeding Henry Edelman, effective immediately. Gerber will continue to serve as chief executive of Farm Credit of Western New York, an association in the Farm Credit System.
EVERCORE PARTNERS INC The U.S. merger advisory firm hired Ray Newton III as senior managing director in its private equity group, Evercore Capital Partners. Newton was previously with Perseus LLC. His appointment is effective Oct. 1 and he will be based in New York.
BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORP The financial services company hired Simon Putt, previously with Fidelity International, as director, head of UK Institutional Client Relationship Management. Putt will be based in London.
CAPITAL & REGIONAL PLC The British property fund manager promoted Charles Staveley to group finance director effective Oct. 1. He was deputy finance director with the company earlier.
RESIDENTIAL FINANCE CORP The mortgage lender hired Mindy Hoffman as director of operations closing – post closing and promoted Tim Jolliffe to director of operations – processing and pipeline management. Hoffman was previously with U.S. Bancorp.
Job Bank – Sep. 29
The following are recent job changes within the financial industry, linked where possible to profiles on LinkedIn. To inform us of other job changes, please e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com.
MORGAN STANLEY INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT The asset manager appointed Richard Ford as managing director and portfolio manager in its Global Fixed Income Team. Previously he was with PIMCO.
AXA INVESTMENT MANAGERS The asset management company named Eric Chaney, previously with Morgan Stanley, as chief economist, AXA Group. Chaney will join AXA on November 1.
PIONEER INVESTMENTS The investment management group named William Porter director of U.S. consultant relations, and Scott Krattenmaker and George Lynch vice presidents of institutional sales. Previously, Porter was with State Street Global Advisors and Krattenmaker with Standish Asset Management, while Lynch joins from Fidelity Family Office Service.
MORTGAGEBROKERS.COM HOLDINGS INC The mortgage brokerage hired Glen Collier as regional vice president. Collier was earlier with Royal Bank of Canada.
WELLS FARGO INSURANCE SERVICES INC The insurance brokerage hired Alan Boring as a senior vice president and sales executive in the Southern California region. Boring was previously with Rollins Burdick Hunter and Aon.
