City Moves for 3 June – Who’s switching jobs at Cushman & Wakefield, Grant Thornton and the Howard de Walden Estate? Today's City Moves includes Cushman & Wakefield, Grant Thornton and the Howard de Walden Estate. Cushman & Wakefield Cushman & Wakefield has appointed James Sheppard to head the firm’s new Life Sciences team, based in London. A graduate in pharmacology and molecular genetics, James has developed an expertise in incubator and accelerator projects, guiding a [...]
City Moves for 31st May – Who’s switching jobs at Irwin Mitchell, Paysafe and Barclays? Today's City Moves includes Irwin Mitchell, Paysafe and Barclays. Irwin Mitchell Irwin Mitchell has appointed a new chief financial officer. Richard Allen joins the Irwin Mitchell executive board after a spell of almost five years as group financial controller at Drax Group. He replaces Andrew Merrick who has been at Irwin Mitchell for six years [...]
City Moves for 30 May – Who’s switching jobs at HSBC UK, Experian and Lane, Clark and Peacock? Today's City Moves includes HSBC UK, Experian and Lane, Clark and Peacock. HSBC UK HSBC UK has appointed Sharon Quinlan to the key role of head of corporate real estate. In her new role, Sharon will be focused on supporting HSBC UK’s real estate customers with their debt finance requirements and expanding the bank’s commercial property [...]
City Moves for 29 May – Who’s switching jobs at Clearstar, Deutsche Bank Wealth Management and The Office Group? May 28, 2019 Today's City Moves includes Clearstar, Deutsche Bank Wealth Management and The Office Group. Clearstar Clearstar has announced that it has appointed Jennifer Balleza as the company’s chief financial officer with immediate effect. Jennifer, who has been serving as the company’s interim chief financial officer since January 2019, is not being appointed to the board of [...]
City Moves for 28 May – Who’s switching jobs at DNEG, the Building Societies Association and Blackbird? May 28, 2019 Today's City Moves includes DNEG, the Building Societies Association and Blackbird. DNEG Andrew Gordon has been appointed head of character animation at DNEG, the visual effects, animation and stereo conversion company. Andrew joins managing director of feature animation Tom Jacomb, animation director Troy Saliba and VFX supervisor Philippe Denis in leading DNEG’s rapidly-growing feature animation team, [...]
City Moves for 24 May – who’s switching jobs at Royal London, Macquarie and McCarthy Denning? May 23, 2019 Who’s on the move today? Royal London Royal London Asset Management (RLAM), the investment manager of Royal London Unit Trust Managers (RLUTM) and RLUM, has announced the appointment of Nora O’Mahony as non-executive director to the fund boards, with effect from 1 June 2019, subject to regulatory approval. This concludes appointments for both fund boards. [...]
City Moves for 23 May – Who’s switching jobs at Together, Weightmans and Openfin? May 23, 2019 Today's City Moves includes Together, Weightmans and Openfin. Together Specialist lender Together, which has a loan book of more than £3.74bn, has hired banking heavyweight Simon Raine as an advisor to its board. Simon – who has more than 35 years’ experience in financial services – joins from Handelsbanken, where he helped to develop its [...]
City Moves for 22 May – Who’s switching jobs at Neuro-Insight, Cushman & Wakefield and Airship? May 21, 2019 Today's City Moves include Neuro-Insight, Cushman & Wakefield and Airship. Neuro-Insight Neuro-Insight, a neuromarketing and neuroanalytics company that uses unique brain-imaging technology to measure how the brain responds to communications, has promoted Shazia Ginai to the role of UK chief executive. She will replace the current UK chief executive, Heather Andrew as she steps down [...]
City Moves for 21 May – Who’s switching jobs at Cazoo, Invesco and Headland? May 21, 2019 Today's City Moves includes Cazoo, Invesco and Headland. Cazoo Cazoo has announced Alex Gersh, formerly chief financial officer (CFO) of Paddy Power Betfair, has joined as its first CFO. Having raised over £30m late last year, Cazoo is seeking to transform the used car market in the UK. Alex joins Cazoo after spending 6 years [...]
City Moves for 20 May – Who’s switching jobs at HSBC, Carwow and the PRS Reit? May 19, 2019 Today's City Moves includes HSBC, Carwow and the PRS Reit. HSBC HSBC UK has appointed Chloe Clift as head of its professional services sector team. In her new role, Chloe will work with HSBC UK commercial customers across the legal, recruitment, accountancy and consultancy sectors, offering banking support and strategic advice. The Professional Services sector [...]