CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS
Wainbridge
The property investment and asset management firm has appointed Graham Langlay-Smith as chief financial officer. Langlay-Smith joins from Credit Suisse, where he was a director of the European team of DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners. Prior to Credit Suisse, Langlay-Smith was chief financial officer of real estate developer TrizecHahn Europe, and has also held senior financial control positions at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and HSBC.
Capco
Capital & Counties Properties (Capco) has appointed Sarah-Jane Curtis as director of the company’s Covent Garden retail and residential development. Curtis will join the company in September from Grosvenor, where she is retail investment director on Grosvenor’s London estate.
BMO
BMO Financial Group has appointed William Smith as managing director and head of European and Middle East operations. Smith was formerly head of investment and corporate banking, Europe at BMO Capital Markets.
BNP Paribas
Torsten Murke will join BNP Paribas corporate and investment banking on 1 October as deputy country head for Germany and head of investment banking Germany, based in Frankfurt. Prior to joining BNP Paribas, Murke was a managing director at Credit Suisse.
Betfair
The online betting company has appointed Raj Vemulapalli as vice president of mobile engineering. Vemulapalli joins from Yahoo, where he was head of engineering.
EC Harris
The built asset consultancy has appointed Isabel Boira-Segarra to lead the European Renewables team. Prior to joining EC Harris, Boira-Segarra was a renewable services director at energy and environment consultancy WSP.
Simmons & Simmons
The law firm has expanded its financial markets practice by hiring a five-partner banking team: John Hayward, Richard Hughes, Simon Kildahl, Bob Jones and Mark Waghorn, all previously at Berwin Leighton Paisner.
Polo Resources
The natural resources investment company has appointed Ian Michael Burns to the board as finance director. Burns is the founder and senior executive director of Via Executive and the managing director of Regent Mercantile Holdings.