CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS April 24, 2012 DC Advisory Partners The corporate finance advisory firm has announced the appointment of Terry Huffine as executive director in its European consumer, leisure and retail team. Huffine joins after eight years with ABN AMRO and, following its acquisition, at the Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was a director on the consumer team. He also [...]
WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS April 23, 2012 Northill Capital The asset manager, founded in 2010, has announced the appointments of Darius Berendji and Cathy Jones as partners in its management team. Berendji joins as partner and chief financial officer. He was previously financial director for Kedge Capital. Jones joins as partner and head of human resources. She previously held the same role [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS February 5, 2012 Mastercard UK The global payment processing network has appointed Marion King as president of its UK and Ireland business. King was previously CEO of VocaLink, a payments service provider to banks, corporations and governments. Prior to this she worked at Reuters for 14 years, holding a series of senior roles, most recently as managing director [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS January 31, 2012 WSP Group WSP Environment and Energy, part of the FTSE 250-listed WSP Group, has hired Karen McAllister as director of the environmental planning division in London. McAllister is a former director of RPS, prior to which she was a director at the Town Planning Consultancy, which was acquired by RPS in 2001. Recent projects include [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS December 19, 2011 Standard Life Charles Guay has been appointed as president and chief executive of Standard Life Canada. He will start on 1 February 2012 to replace Joseph Iannicelli, and is joining from National Bank of Canada, where he is senior vice president, strategies, marketing and investment solutions, wealth management. He additionally holds the role of president [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS November 27, 2011 Mayer Brown The global law firm has hired Bernd Bohr as a partner in the corporate and securities practice. Bohr is relocating from the New York office of Allen & Overy to support the expansion of Mayer Brown’s US M&A and capital markets practice in Europe. He specialises in SEC-registered securities offerings, public and private [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS September 7, 2011 Ogier Jersey Legal The offshore legal services provider has appointed Matthew Swan as managing partner, replacing Matthew Thompson, whose term of office has come to an end after four years in the role. Swan (pictured) is head of the firm’s business and trust law group and the Jersey banking team. Thompson, who specialises in commercial [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS May 18, 2011 Jupiter Asset Management Amanda Sillars (pictured) and David Lewis have joined Jupiter’s Merlin fund-of-funds team as fund selection specialist and assistant fund manager respectively. Sillars was formerly investment director and executive director at JP Morgan Asset Management, where she managed about 500 funds and investment trusts. Lewis has been promoted from Jupiter’s private clients & [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS May 16, 2011 Legal & General Property Charlie Walker has been promoted to director of the property fund manager and appointed to the LGP Board. Most recently, Walker was senior fund manager to the UK Property Income Fund. In his new role, he will continue to oversee the fund, which this month secured a further £100m of equity. [...]
HARLAN’S LICENCE TO THRILL HIS CITY FANS April 3, 2011 NEVER mind capital markets – when clients meet Craig Coben, head of equity capital markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, they are far more interested in talking about when his famous brother, the US author Harlan Coben, is publishing his next novel. “A lot of the bank’s corporate and private equity clients – ranging [...]