City Moves for 21 July 2014 | Who’s switching jobs
Laing O’Rourke
The construction firm has announced the appointment of Paul Sheffield as managing director of its Europe hub. He joins after 31 years at Kier, where he was most recently chief executive. Sheffield is a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
UBS Global Asset Management
James Finch has been appointed head of global liquidity management, Europe, Middle East and Africa, at the asset manager. He was most recently head of UK and fixed income business development at Source. Finch has also held senior roles at JP Morgan Asset Management, Barclays Global Investors, and Legal & General Investment Management.
Fitch Solutions
Brian Filanowski has been appointed global product head at the fixed-income division of Fitch Group. He joins from Bloomberg, where he worked as a business manager focusing on real-time datafeeds, and enterprise content and distribution. Filanowski has also held positions at Thomson Reuters, Interactive Data Corporation, Multex.com, and Telekurs Financial.
Peel Hunt
The broking and advisory house has announced two appointments. Kathy Boate joins as head of retail capital markets. She was previously head of investor access at Edison Group. Indy Bhattacharrya joins as head of UK IPO origination. He was previously at Credit Suisse, where he spent the last 10 years leading a number of equity raises.
Keller Williams
The property firm has appointed Mike Coffey as regional chief executive and operating partner for Keller Williams UK. He has worked for the firm since 2001, and has previously launched two market centres in the Washington, DC area.
L + M
James Caan’s real estate services firm has appointed Colin Bartlett as director of mixed-use and residential projects. He joins from Sweett Group, where he was senior director for project management and a member of its European board.
3i Group
Caroline Banszky has been appointed non-executive director at the investment management group. She is currently managing director of The Law Debenture Group, the investment trust, and is a former chief operating officer of Novae. Banszky has also held roles at NM Rothschild & Sons.
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