City Moves for 04 March 2014 | Who’s switching jobs
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
The law firm has named London-based corporate partner Martin Nelson-Jones as co-head of its infrastructure and transport sector group. He joined in 1991 and became a partner in 2001.
BNY Mellon
The investment management firm has announced the appointment of Frank La Salla as chief executive of its alternative investment services business. He was most recently at Pershing, where he was managing director and led its global growth strategy. La Salla was previously managing director and chief operating officer at Societe Generale Securities Services.
Livingstone
The mid-market mergers and acquisitions and debt advisory firm has made three appointments. Karen Dawaf joins as an associate from Deloitte. Tom Smith joins the industrial sector team as an analyst from PwC. Lewis Gray has been appointed as analyst in the business services sector team. He also joins from PwC.
Norton Rose Fulbright
David Stevens has joined the law firm as a disputes partner specialising in contentious real estate. He was most recently at Maples Teesdale, where he was a partner. Prior to that, Stevens was an associate at Norton Rose Fulbright from 1996 to 2004.
Partnership
Partnership Assurance Group has announced the appointment of Katherine Jones as director of investor relations. She joins from Phoenix Group Holdings, where she was head of investor relations. Jones previously spent six years working in KPMG’s transaction services division.
WH Ireland
The financial services group has hired two investment managers. Paul Smith has 17 years’ industry experience, and was most recently at Barclays Wealth and Investment Management. Hitesh Mistry also joins from Barclays. He previously held roles at Gerrard Investment Management.
Menzies
James Hadfield has joined the accountancy firm as an audit director. He has extensive experience in life sciences, technology and care homes. Hadfield previously worked at Grant Thornton and McGladrey in New York. The author highlights some real world examples of computer problems, and I applaud him for calling attention to the need to maintain business critical systems adequately. But the problems mentioned are with front-line operating systems, whereas Big Data systems typically work offline, behind the scenes, and are generally not business critical. Any firm offering a service which is reliant on systems must ensure they are properly maintained, and have adequate disaster recovery plans. That’s been an issue long before Big Data became a concept.
Dan Tubb at Grant Thornton and McGladrey in New York.