Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Northern Trust has appointed Sheldon Woldt to the newly created role of head of the Middle East.
Woldt is responsible for the continued growth of its business in the region. He will be working with Europe, Middle East and Africa regional management, and drawing on Northern Trust’s asset servicing, asset management and wealth management expertise to serve institutional asset owners, asset managers and family office clients. He will re-locate from Chicago to Abu Dhabi, reporting to Penelope Biggs, head of the institutional investor group, EMEA. Locally, he will work closely with Michael Slater, head of the Abu Dhabi office, and Kais Abbas, head of investment business development.
Woldt has been with Northern Trust since 1983 during which time he has worked with a range of Middle East clients across a number of sectors. -Business Wire
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Simon Borrows is set to be named as chief executive of 3i Group.
Borrows, who joined as chief investment officer, will take over from Michael Queen.
Paul Joerger has been named vice president and director of asset management for the Hancock Agricultural Investment Group, effective immediately. He will be based in Boston and report to Oliver Williams, the president of HAIG.
Joerger will be responsible for directing farmland property manager relationships as well as acquisition and disposition processing, including financial modeling and investment presentation. He will also be responsible for the group’s property-level risk management and farmland appraisal program.
Before joining the the company, Joerger was an area vice president and part of the senior management team at Farmers National Company based in Overland Park, Kansas. -PR Newswire
AllianceBernstein Holding announced that John C. Weisenseel, age 52, has joined as senior vice president, chief financial officer and general partner of the company effective May 14, 2012. He succeeds Edward J. Farrell, who had served as interim chief financial officer since February 2011, would resume his role as corporate controller and chief accounting officer.
Weisenseel will lead all global finance and reporting functions for the firm and report to the company’s chief operating officer, James A. Gingrich.
Weisenseel joins the firm from The McGraw-Hill Companies, where he most recently served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Standard & Poor’s since 2007. -SEC Form 8k
Monday, May 14, 2012
Northern Trust Corporation has appointed Steve David as country head – Luxembourg. He has been based in Northern Trust’s Luxembourg office since joining the organisation in 2004.
In his new role, David will be responsible for leading and managing the continued expansion of the organisation’s specialist fund servicing and custody operations in Luxembourg, which serves clients around the world. He replaces Ian Baillie, and will report to Toby Glaysher, head of Northern Trust’s global fund services activities in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Most recently, David was managing director of the Luxembourg management company. -Business Wire
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Omidyar Network announced that Malik Fal has joined the philanthropic investment firm as managing director for Africa.
Based in Johannesburg, Fal will lead efforts to increase investments on the continent, as well as to partner more closely with the organization’s Africa-based investees.
Fal most recently was managing director of Endeavor South Africa. -PR Newswire
The Boston Company Asset Management named Adam B. Joffe director of alternatives.
Joffe is responsible for developing The Boston Company’s capabilities across the alternative investment space, including hedge funds, long/short funds, sector-specific portfolios, market-neutral strategies and other specialties. In this newly created position based in Boston, he reports to Bart Grenier, chairman, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of The Boston Company. He has also assumed the position of chief administrative officer, also newly created, overseeing operations and support service. In this role, he reports to Joseph P. Gennaco, president and chief operating officer.
Before joining The Boston Company, Joffe served as chief financial officer and senior vice president at New York-based First Eagle Investment Management. -PR Newswire
Manulife Asset Management announced that it has appointed Sarah Lu as head of asset allocation in Asia.
In this newly-created, Hong Kong-based role, Lu oversees the development and investment management of asset allocation solutions for investors across the region. She will spearhead the development of investment solutions that help Asian investors meet an ever-widening range of income and total return needs, through strategic and tactical asset allocation.
Lu joins from Axa Rosenberg Investment Management Asia Pacific where she spent more than 12 years managing multi-asset portfolios and where, most recently, she was head of tactical asset allocation. -Canada News Wire
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Tiedemann Wealth Management announced an expansion of its client services and business development team with the appointment of Jennifer Mitchell as a managing director.
Based in New York, Mitchell will report directly to Craig Smith, president of Tiedemann Wealth Management.
With over 20 years experience in wealth management and financial services, Mitchell was most recently managing director at Barclays Wealth where she focused on investment and wealth management services for ultra high net worth clients and built a client base around self-made first generation entrepreneurs and retired executives. -Market Wire
Monroe Capital announced Ben Marzouk has joined the firm as managing director – New York region group head.
Prior to Monroe, Marzouk originated lower middle-market loan transactions at Praesidian Capital. -Business Wire
Associated Banc-Corp has named William Curtis as the new president and CEO of Associated Investment Services.
Curtis is responsible for the overall leadership and direction of Associated Investment Services. His role encompasses strategy, sales and overall financial results of this entity. He will also work closely with Associated’s private client and consumer banking segments.
Curtis joins Associated from BMO Financial Group/M&I where he worked for more than 30 years. The last 25 years he worked within the bank’s retail investment business, serving most recently as COO of M&I Financial Advisors.
AMF announced that Johan Sidenmark is appointed new CEO of AMF in Sweden, as of 1 August 2012.
Sidenmark has headed Nordea Life & Pensions since 2008. -TendersInfo
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Janus Capital Group announced two senior-level appointments. Andrew B. Weisman has been appointed senior vice president. Soonyong Park joins the company as institutional client strategist. Both roles are new to the firm.
Weisman will focus on the development of company’s alternative and multi-asset client solutions. He reports to chief executive officer Richard M. Weil.
Prior to joining JCG, Weisman was a partner at WR Platform Advisors.
Park will lead institutional client strategy, provide thought leadership and research on institutional pension and strategic asset allocation issues, and partner with Janus’ investment team, along with Weisman, to meet client needs. Leveraging his years of experience with public and corporate plans, endowments and foundations, and insurance and financial firms, he will work with institutional clients to provide problem-solving insights regarding the strategic issues their plans face today. He will report to Susan Oh, senior vice president and head of the U.S. institutional group.
Park is a veteran of the institutional investment management business, most recently serving as head of global portfolio solutions and co-head of research at Segal Rogerscasey. -Business Wire
Perella Weinberg Partners announced that Alexander Schnieders has joined the firm as a managing director in its advisory business.
Schnieders will provide strategic and financial advice to life and property & casualty insurance clients as part of the firm’s financial institutions group.
Schnieders was most recently was a managing director in the U.S. financial institutions group and co-head of U.S. insurance M&A. He began his investment banking career at J.P. Morgan & Co. -Business Wire
Canadian Stock Transfer Company and AST Fund Solutions announced that Julian Clark is joining the firm as managing director of Canada and executive vice president of business development and strategy for all of North America.
Clark will manage the Canadian business and oversee Canadian Stock Transfer’s delivery of a full suite of comprehensive and integrated global solutions to clients and shareholders. He will also be responsible for working with the growing number of businesses in the CST and AST enterprise to develop and execute strategic initiatives that continue to provide top-tier offerings and superior service to clients.
Clark has more than 25 years of experience in providing equity services to the issuer community in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Prior to that position, he served as president and CEO of Mellon Investor Services and president and CEO of the RM Trust Company – a predecessor company to CST. -Market Wire
Northern Trust Corporation has named Daniel F. Lindley to the London-based role of managing director, global family & private investment offices group — EMEA and APAC, effective July 1, 2012.
In his new role, Lindley will manage the expansion of Northern Trust’s business with family and private investment offices in Europe, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific Region, and will have operational oversight of the group’s activities in London and Guernsey. He will report to J. Jeffery Kauffman, chief executive officer, global family & private investment offices.
Lindley currently serves as president of The Northern Trust Company of Delaware, a position he has held since 2005. -Business Wire
Austin Ventures announced the promotion of Thomas Ball to general partner.
Ball joined AV in 2005 as a venture partner and was promoted to partner at the closing of Fund X in 2008. His investment and transaction experience and focus are on early-stage information technology companies, with a primary focus on internet, software and technology-enabled business and consumer services. He has led recent investments in WhaleShark Media, Umbel, Gazzang, and Silvercar. He has also been actively involved with AV portfolio companies Jigsaw, Bazaarvoice, and Convio. -Market Wire
Monday, May 7, 2012
Stockbridge Capital Group appointed Rob Oseland as president and COO of SLS Las Vegas.
In this role, Oseland will collaborate with Nazarian and the company to develop and launch SLS Las Vegas.
Before this new role, Oseland worked with Wynn Resorts. -TendersInfo
Friday, May 4, 2012
Michael Lowsley has joined Delaware Investments as regional director for its third-party retail distribution team supporting Northern Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Northern Louisiana.
Lowsley comes to Delaware Investments from Pioneer Investments where he most recently served as a regional vice president covering Texas. He previously covered several other territories in the Western United States.
MCG Capital Corporation announced that Keith Kennedy, executive vice president and managing director, will assume the additional roles of chief financial officer and treasurer, effective as of May 15, 2012. He replaces Stephen J. Bacica.
Kennedy joined MCG in January 2012 and serves as a member of the company’s credit committee. From May 2011 to February 2012, he served as a healthcare advisor and executive-in-residence at Arlington Capital Partners. From October 2009 until he joined Arlington Capital, he pursued principal investing on his own behalf, on behalf of independent investors and exclusively on behalf of J.I. Kislak from March to September 2010. From October 2002 to September 2009, he worked at GE Capital across several functional areas and business segments, rising to the position of managing director. He also led GE Capital’s strategic investments group, a healthcare investment portfolio within its corporate finance group that he helped create to deal with the impact of the credit dislocation on the business unit’s portfolio. Prior to GE, he served in various tax, audit and transaction advisory roles in public accounting where he last served as a manager, transaction services, at Ernst & Young. -Business Wire; Seeking Alpha; Company Website
Thursday, May 3, 2012
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has appointed Charles McKenzie as head of client portfolio management for Europe, Middle East & Africa in the global fixed income team.
In his new role, McKenzie will be responsible for client management, product design and new business development for the region.
McKenzie joins from Aberdeen where he was head of fixed income for Europe, Middle East & Africa.
Western Asset Premier Bond Fund announced its newly formulated portfolio management team from Western Asset Management Company.
Effective May 1, 2012, the portfolio management team from WAM will be comprised of Stephen A. Walsh, Michael C. Buchanan and Paul Jablansky. -Business Wire
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
ATA Ventures announced the appointment of John “JohnnyL” Loiacono as venture partner.
Loiacono has been a key executive in the high-tech industry in Silicon Valley for over 25 years, including former roles as chief marketing officer and executive vice president of Sun Microsystems, and more recently, senior vice president and general nanager of Adobe Systems’ digital media and creative solutions businesses. -PR Newswire
Monday, April 30, 2012
Bank of America Corporation announced that its unit Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
(Bank of America Corporation Merrill Lynch) has selected Alex Wilmot-Sitwell as the president of businesses across Europe and emerging markets excluding Asia, with business lines include wealth management.
Earlier, Wilmot-Sitwell worked as a senior UBS investment banker. -TendersInfo
Friday, April 27, 2012
Maybank Kim Eng has appointed Tan Pei-San as CEO of its Singapore operations. Previously, Tan was head of international business and succeeds Ronald Ooi.
Prior to joining Maybank Kim Eng, Tan was an in-house legal counsel at JP Morgan, overseeing capital markets transactions in South Asia and South-east Asia. Prior to this, he was an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, where he worked on credit, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets transactions. -The Business Times Singapore
Thursday, April 26, 2012
GTIS Partners announced that Drucilla Richards joined the company in the capacity of managing director. She will report to Bill Cisneros, the senior managing director and partner who heads the company’s equity capital markets group.
Prior to joining GTIS, Richards founded and led TCAP Associates, a retained executive search firm focused on the real estate industry. -Business Wire
Stephens has expanded its equity research department with a new, well-established team specialized in the semiconductor sector.
Managing director and senior analyst Harsh V. Kumar and associate Richard Sewell will be focusing on integrated circuits, memory chips and other broad line semiconductor companies, and will be working from Stephens’ Memphis office.
Kumar most recently was a managing director at Morgan Keegan in Memphis, where he served for the past 12 years as the senior analyst covering semiconductor equipment, with a particular focus on small to mid-cap companies in that space. Previously, he was a senior analyst at Roth Capital Partners in Irvine, California, where he worked in the same sector.
Sewell was previously employed by Morgan Keegan as an associate, working alongside Kumar. He worked at Morgan Keegan for two years, after prior positions with Alcatel-Lucent and Mercer Capital.
WisdomTree Investments announced that it will appoint Jonathan Steinberg, WisdomTree’s founder and CEO, as president, effective August 1.
Steinberg will succeed Bruce Lavine, who will remain at WisdomTree as vice chairman where he will continue to serve a leadership role in operations and strategy. -PrimeNewswire
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation has named PeterPaul Pardi global head of distribution for its investment management business.
In this new role, Pardi will be responsible for creating and implementing the strategies for the organization’s distribution, marketing and client service functions. He will be based in London reporting to both Curtis Arledge, chief executive officer of BNY Mellon Investment Management, and Mitchell Harris, president of BNY Mellon Investment Management.
Most recently, Pardi was executive director, global head of institutional investment placement, for Arcapita, a global private equity firm. -PR Newswire
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation has announced that Bob Brinker has been named managing director and head of sales in North America for BNY Mellon Beta & Transition Management.
Brinker, who reports to Mark Keleher, chief executive officer of the beta and transition management business, is based in Pittsburgh and succeeds David Hanlon.
Brinker has 27 years of experience in sales and client relationships in both the asset management and asset servicing businesses of BNY Mellon. He served most recently as managing director of investment analysis in the asset servicing group. He also served as director of sales and marketing for Mellon Equity Associates, which now is part of Mellon Capital Management Corporation. -M2 Presswire
The Depository Trust Company announced that Michael C. Bodson has been appointed as chief executive officer of the company.
Bodson has also been appointed president and chief executive officer of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, effective July 1. He succeeds Donald F. Donahue. He is currently chief operating officer of that company.
Bodson has also been apponted chief executive officer of National Securities Clearing Corporation and Fixed Income Clearing Corporation. -Business Wire
Cowen Group announced that David Lu has been appointed head of Asia investment banking.
Lu, who is based in Hong Kong, will be responsible for leading all aspects of Cowen’s China-based investment banking platform, Cowen and Company Asia, including capital markets and financial advisory services.
Prior to his current position, Lu served as deputy head of Asia investment banking. Before joining Cowen, he served as managing director and chief representative at Piper Jaffray’s Shanghai-based office, where he successfully built a strong investment banking coverage and execution team. -Business Wire
SEI Investments Co. announced the appointment of Paul Swanson as head of U.S. asset management distribution for the company.
In this role Swanson will be responsible for developing and maintaining strategic relationships with large distributors, driving asset and revenue growth, and managing SEI’s strategic sales plan for the company’s U.S. asset management distribution efforts, including such target firms as wirehouses, insurance companies, retirement platforms, and regional, national, and global banks.
Swanson’s most recent role was head of sales for the defined contribution intermediary channel with Lincoln Financial Distributors. -Market Wire
BMO Capital Markets U.S. announced that Brian Belski has joined the firm as chief investment strategist. He will replace Ben Joyce.
Belski will be part of the equity research team and work from both New York and Toronto. He will provide in-depth equity portfolio strategy products for the U.S. and Canada. He reports to Ian de Verteuil, global head of research, BMO Capital Markets.
Most recently, Belski was chief investment strategist at Oppenheimer & Company in New York, where he distributed four proprietary strategy and portfolio strategy publications for institutional and retail clients. -Market Wire
Monday, April 23, 2012
Dararith Ly has been promoted to sales director in MassMutual Retirement Services Division.
Ly is responsible for covering retirement plan sales across Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia and Southern New Jersey.
Ly has been with the division since 2007.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Richard House, former head of emerging market debt at Threadneedle Asset Management, is joining Standard Life Investments to lead the firm’s new emerging markets bond team. House, who left Threadneedle at the start of April, is joining the firm along with two former Threadneedle colleagues Mark Baker and Nicolas Jaquier. Baker and Jaquier will both take up roles as investment directors in the global emerging markets bond team.
House was at Threadneedle from 2007, prior to which he was a trader of emerging market bonds and currencies at Wadhwani Asset Management. Baker was an investment specialist with the emerging markets fixed income team from 2010 to 2012, prior to which he occupied other roles at the firm. Jaquier was an emerging market quant analyst within the fixed income team at Threadneedle from 2010 to 2012. Before this, he was worked at Swiss National Bank. -Citywire
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Evercore Wealth Management announced the appointment of Jonathan Bergner as a managing director and portfolio manager.
Bergner will be based in New York City and will report to Jay Springer, a partner and portfolio manager at the firm.
Bergner joins Evercore Wealth Management from U.S. Trust, where he had led a team of portfolio managers and was responsible for managing the assets of high net worth individuals and family foundations. -Business Wire
Windham Capital Management announced that Robert L. Bernstein has joined as managing director for institutional sales.
Bernstein brings more than 20 years of experience and a wide range of institutional relationships to the company. Prior to joining the company, he served as head of business development and managing director of BNP Paribas Investment Partners in Boston, where he designed and executed a U.S. business strategy for multiple client segments.
Before BNP Paribas, he was head of institutional sales and managing director at AG Asset Management in Boston and a senior vice president for GE Asset Management in San Francisco. -Business Wire
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Ramius announced that Eric Greenhut has joined the firm as a managing director and head of quantitative trading.
In a newly created role, Greenhut will be responsible for the management and development of the group, including the ongoing search for premier quantitative traders, researchers, and programmers. He will report to Thomas W. Strauss, president and CEO of Ramius.
Prior to joining the firm, Greenhut served as managing member of quantitative trading firms Hut Trading & Hut Capital since 2003. -Business Wire
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Southport Lane has appointed Michael Morrow as chief investment officer and president of Southport Lane Advisors.
Morrow will be responsible for developing and actively managing the asset allocation strategies for all of the company’s portfolio companies, as well as overseeing the company’s fixed-income group.
Morrow comes to the company from Intellectual Ventures, where he served as director of structured finance and CFO products, creating financial products around patents to enhance their utility as an asset class.
