WI Harper Group announced that Jimmy Lu has joined the firm as its executive managing director and chief operating officer.
Mr. Lu will oversee WI Harper’s global operations and work closely with founder and chairman Peter Liu.
Mr. Lu co-founded and most recently served as general partner of iD Ventures America, which manages several funds, including Acer Technology Venture Fund and IP Fund One. -Market Wire
Pacific Alternative Asset Management announced that Mayer J. Cherem, Maarten Nederlof, Neale Safaty and Kevin Williams have been promoted to partners.
Cherem is a director and the sector specialist responsible for the evaluation and management of opportunistic investments and offensive risk management initiatives. He is also a member of the firm’s strategy allocation committee where he focuses on assessing the impact of asset allocation on overall portfolio risk and performance.
Nederlof is a managing director and head of portfolio solutions at PAAMCO. He is a member of the investment management and risk management committees and has twenty-four years of experience in investment management and portfolio construction with institutional investors.
Safaty is based in PAAMCO’s London office and is currently a managing director and a sector specialist for convertible bond hedging in the firm’s portfolio management group. He is also responsible for the firm’s Pan Asia alpha strategies’ business and client relationships.
Williams is the head of investment operations and is responsible for overseeing operational due diligence, legal and regulatory review, fund accounting and administration and the company’s managed account platform. -PR Newswire
Sarath Sathkumara has joined Taiyo Pacific Partners as a managing director.
Sathkumara will help evaluate and capitalize on new investment opportunities in Asia for Taiyo Pacific Partners.
Sathkumara has over 25 years of experience in international capital markets and investing. Most recently, Sarath was the chief investment officer of SBI Venture Capital in Singapore. From 2002 to 2008, Sarath was a senior portfolio manager with the State Street Global Advisors’ emerging markets group in Boston.
BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has appointed James Slater to the newly created role of managing director and chief operating officer for global securities lending (Mellon Global Securities Lending).
Slater will report to Kathy Rulong, executive director of global securities lending, and will provide strategic direction for core securities lending functions, including securities trading and product development. He will be based in Pittsburgh and also work out of offices in New York, London and Hong Kong.
Slater has 20 years of experience in the financial services industry and was most recently senior vice president at CIBC Mellon, a joint venture between CIBC and BNY Mellon, where he was responsible for its global securities lending, treasury and cash management operations. He was also a member of the company’s executive management committee. He has been with CIBC Mellon since its inception in 1996 and was a key contributor to the formation of the joint venture.
Slater will continue to provide strategic direction to CIBC Mellon’s securities lending program.
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation announced that Larry Chen, previously chief representative of the Beijing Representative Office assumes the role of general manager of the newly formed Beijing branch.
Chen will oversee banking services to BNY Mellon’s institutional clients in China and seek to broaden its range of local and global capabilities and offerings. -PR Newswire
Avista Capital Partners announced it has formed Avista Capital Europe, based in London, and has appointed veteran private equity professionals Newton Aguiar as partner and head of the firm’s activities in Europe, Allen Yurko as an industry executive, and Kunal Pandit as a vice president in the newly formed Avista office.
Aguiar, Yurko, and Pandit will pursue controlling investments or influential minority investments primarily in European-based, growth-orientated healthcare, energy, and media companies.
Each of Avista’s new European team members come from DLJ Merchant Banking Partners from which Avista was spun out in 2005.
Previously, Aguiar spent four years at DLJMB, where he was a managing director and partner. From 1999 to 2005, he was a partner at Triton, where he focused on the healthcare industry.
Yurko was the European industrial partner at DLJMB, focused on growth-oriented industrial and business services companies. Previously, he was an operating partner and director at Compass Partners. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly 25 years at public companies, including early management positions with Eaton and Joy Manufacturing.
Before spending three years at DLJMB, Pandit served as a member of the leveraged finance group at Lehman Brothers in London. -PR Newswire
Vindi Banga has joined Clayton, Dubilier & Rice as operating partner based in London.
Mr. Banga will be responsible for working with the managements of 2-3 of CD&R’s portfolio of companies, as well as for screening and looking out for new investment opportunities.
Mr. Banga is the former president for global food, home and personal care at Unilever. -Economic Times
State Street announced the appointment of executive vice president Nicholas (Nick) Bonn, to head its securities finance business.
Bonn, an 18-year veteran of State Street, will report to David Puth, executive vice president and head of State Street’s global markets business.
Bonn has held a variety of leadership positions throughout his career at State Street, including responsibility for establishing State Street’s broker/dealer subsidiaries in the US, Canada, Japan and the UK. He managed State Street’s equity trading and transition management businesses for 17 years. He most recently served as global head of sales and client development for State Street global markets. -Business Wire
Highmark Capital Management announced that Kevin A. Rowell has joined the company as the managing director of HighMark Funds, replacing Greg Knopf.
Rowell, who will be based in HighMark Capital Management’s corporate headquarters in San Francisco, will report to Earle Malm, president and CEO, effective immediately.
As managing director of HighMark Funds, Rowell is responsible for the retail distribution-related activities of HighMark Capital Management, including oversight of the HighMark Funds’ national wholesaling and marketing teams, third-party distributor and legal team.
Prior to joining HighMark, Rowell served as president of Hennessy Funds. Before joining Hennessy, he served as president of Pioneer Funds Distributor and president of Safeco Mutual Funds. Previously, he worked for several leading asset management firms, including Putnam Investments, where he served most recently as director of European corporate developmentwhile based in Milan, Italy. -Business Wire
Northern Trust announced that Penelope Biggs has been appointed as head of the trust’s institutional investor group for Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA), replacing Peter Holman, who has been named chief administrative officer for EMEA.
In her new role, Biggs will lead client servicing and sales, consulting and marketing for the institutional investor group, which provides asset servicing solutions to institutional investors, such as pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and insurance companies.
Biggs, who joined the trust in 1996, was most recently head of business development, marketing, product and strategy for the trust’s asset servicing business in EMEA. She also chairs the trust’s Retirement Solutions Practice, an advisory group dedicated to helping institutions navigate the complexities of the global retirement market.
In his newly created role, Holman will oversee the trust’s EMEA product team as well as the investment risk and analytical services group.
Holman has over 25 years of industry experience and joined the trust in 1995. -Business Week
UBS Investment Bank announced the appointment of Anthony Iliya as CEO for Middle East and North Africa.
Iliya, who will start August 1, will be based in Dubai and report to Alex Wilmot-Sitwell, group chairman and CEO EMEA and Co-CEO of UBS Investment Bank.
Iliya has 30 years experience in the financial industry across investment banking, asset management and wealth management. He was most recently with Credit Suisse in Hong Kong as executive vice-chairman and head of asset management APAC. Previously he held the position of head of fixed income and co-head of investment banking coverage for non-Japan Asia and Australia. Before that he held different senior positions in global Markets in New York, London and Bahrain, with General Re Financial Products, Credit Suisse and Bankers Trust.
Cowen Group announced the launch of its credit fixed income group and the appointment of Kevin Reynolds, as head of the group, and Leonard Sheer as a managing director.
Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Sheer will be primarily responsible for fixed income and credit product origination and execution, including public and private debt placements, exchange offers, consent solicitations and tender offers. -PR Newswire
Rockefeller Financial announced that it has named Ronald R. Macleod as a senior vice president of the company.
Mr. Macleod is based in Santa Barbara, California where he will focus on National and West Coast new business opportunities for the company. In his role, he will work closely with managing director Loraine B. Tsavaris and other company professionals to develop and execute new business development opportunities.
Mr. Macleod brings more than 20 years of private wealth management experience to Rockefeller Financial. Previously, he was a managing partner of a private family investment firm in California, where he led the family successfully through a restructuring and change of control. He was also a senior vice president of Nuveen Investments’ global family office group, where he led the effort to provide customized, high-quality investment solutions and services to family offices in the United States and abroad. Prior to that, he was a senior vice president with the US Trust family wealth group and has held senior positions at other leading financial institutions throughout his career. -PR Newswire
Prisma Capital Partners announced the appointment of James Welch as managing director and member of the firm’s portfolio management group.
In his new role at Prisma, Mr. Welch will focus on product development and coordinate the response of the firm to enquiries from institutional clients who seek a variety of hedged equity and credit strategies as solutions to their particular needs.
Previously Mr. Welch was the managing member of Kettle Cove Investors. -Business Wire
Noro-Moseley Partners announced that Spence McClelland has joined the firm as vice president.
McClelland will play an active role in reviewing investment opportunities in technology and healthcare and in working with entrepreneurs within NMP’s portfolio to help drive growth.
McClelland previously served as a director of strategic and corporate development for Healthways.
Anup Gupta has joined Nexus Venture Partners as managing director in the firm’s Mumbai office.
Gupta will lead the fund’s portfolio in areas such as business and consumer services.
Gupta spent eight years at WNS (Holdings), most recently as chief operating officer. -Economic Times
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management business of State Street, announced the appointment of Raymond Haines as head of UK liability driven investing (LDI) and Christopher J. Goolgasian as a senior portfolio manager in the multi-asset-class solutions (MACS) group in Boston.
SSgA’s MACS group provides asset allocation, LDI and exposure management solutions to clients across all asset classes globally.
Haines was most recently chief investment officer and at ABN AMRO Bank NV, where he led the UK pension advisory team. -Business Wire
John O’Farrell has joined Andreessen Horowitz as the venture capital firm’s third general partner.
O’Farrell most recently was vice president of business development for Silver Spring Networks, and is a onetime Opsware executive.
Andrew Peix has joined Serent Capital as vice president of origination. He will continue to be based in Boston, where he will focus primarily on intermediary relationships in the Eastern United States.
Prior to joining Serent Capital, Peix was a director of business development at Riverside Partners in Boston where he sourced a number of healthcare and technology companies. He also had responsibilities for due diligence and portfolio management.
Barclays Wealth Management announced that Don Milich and Clifford Wang have joined as investment representatives on June 4, 2010. They will be based in Atlanta, reporting to Linda Eydt, manager of Barclays Wealth’s operations in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
Milich and Wang are former brokers with Morgan Stanley’s private wealth management group.
Diker Management announced that Edmund A. Hajim has joined the firm as president.
Mr. Hajim is a seasoned Wall Street executive with over forty years of investment experience. Prior to joining Diker Management, he managed his own investment funds through MLH Capital and served as a director of Morgan Joseph.
JER Partners has named Matthew Cady as vice president, U.S. fund investment management.
Mr. Cady will be responsible for sourcing, acquisition and asset management for investments in all sectors and regions of the U.S. He is based at the firm’s office in McLean, Virginia, and reports to Jim Smith, managing director of JER Partners’ U.S. funds.
Mr. Cady joins JER Partners from Macquarie Capital Funds, where he served as vice president of portfolio management since 2005. -PR Newswire
The Blackstone Group announced that Arthur J. Higgins has joined the firm’s dedicated healthcare group, Blackstone Healthcare Partners.
At Blackstone, Mr. Higgins will join health care veterans Lodewijk de Vink and Doug Rogers in providing industry knowledge and expertise to private equity transactions.
Mr. Higgins had been chairman of the Bayer healthCare executive committee since July 1, 2004, and chairman of the board of management of Bayer HealthCare since January 1, 2006. -Business Wire
Atlantic Trust announced the addition of portfolio manager Adam Karpf and senior investment analyst Clayton Santimore as part of the firm’s investment team.
Mr. Karpf joins senior investment manager Paul McPheeters on Atlantic Trust’s master limited partnership strategy. He is based in New York.
Mr. Karpf has 11 years of industry experience. He has spent the last nine years analyzing the master limited partnership (MLP) sector, when he became an analyst on the equity research team at Lehman Brothers. Most recently, he was head of MLP research and a portfolio manager for Magnetar Capital.
Mr. Santimore is based in Boston as part of Atlantic Trust’s MMIP team.
Previously at Fidelity, Mr. Santimore was responsible for attracting and retaining assets by articulating Fidelity’s investment strategy and portfolio positioning to the firm’s distribution and marketing channels. -Business Wire
Symphony Technology Group announced that Chris Langone has joined the firm as vice president, business development at the firm’s Palo Alto, California headquarters.
In this newly created role, Langone will be responsible for deal sourcing as well as developing relationships with investment bankers and other financial professionals.
Prior to joining STG, Mr. Langone was a vice president at Redwood Capital Group. -Business Wire
State Street Global Advisors announced the appointment of Steve Coyle as head of the US sub-advisory business within its intermediary business group.
Coyle will report to Anthony Rochte, senior managing director at State Street Global Advisors.
Coyle, who is responsible for client service, sales and relationship management, will work closely with SSgA funds management to help manage a growing client base and their use of exchange traded and other investment products.
Coyle joined SSgA in 2007 and has been instrumental in developing SSgA’s sub-advisory business. -Business Wire
Barclays Wealth announced that Urban Wilde has been appointed managing director, chief risk officer, for Asia Pacific, effective from Aug. 2, 2010. He will also be a member of the Barclays Wealth Asia Pacific Management Committee.
Based in Singapore, Mr. Wilde will oversee the operational risk and credit risk teams across the Asia-Pacific region.
Mr. Wilde brings with him more than 20 years of experience from UBS Bank where he was most recently managing director, strategic projects with UBS’ risk team in Zurich. -The Straits Times (Singapore)
Mark Peters has joined The Citigroup Private Bank as director and private banker in its Philadelphia office.
Peters was senior vice president and wealth adviser in the Philadelphia office of Wells Fargo Private Bank. -The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Citigroup Private Bank named Steven Gold as managing director and ultra high net worth private banker. He will be based in San Francisco.
Previously, Gold served at Harris myCFO Investment Advisory Services. -San Jose Mercury News (California)
Capital Southwest announced that it has added two new vice presidents, Marquez Bela and Glenn Neblett, effective May 2010.
Mr. Bela joins in the company after having served in a variety of senior private equity and investment banking roles, most recently as managing member of Covalent Capital.
Mr. Neblett comes to the company from Houlihan Lokey, where he served for 10 years in the corporate finance and financial sponsors groups advising clients in mergers and acquisitions, private placements and restructurings. -PrimeNewswire
MedImmune announced that Ron Laufer has been appointed senior managing director of MedImmune Ventures, the company’s venture capital arm.
Laufer brings more than 15 years of experience to MedImmune Ventures as both a physician and a venture capitalist. He was a co-founder of Lilly Ventures, Eli Lilly and Company’s corporate venture capital fund. He was also a managing director for Visium Asset Management, a healthcare-focused investment firm, where he established the firm’s venture capital team. -PR Newswire
PrivateBancorp announced that Kristine Garrett is named managing director and head of The Privatewealth Group.
In her new role, Garrett will oversee all wealth management and private banking activities. She will be responsible for private banking, trust and custody services and investment management, including oversight of the Lodestar, subsidiary. She will lead teams in providing all aspects of business development and delivery for The PrivateBank’s wealth management activities.
Garrett joined The PrivateBank to oversee private banking in 2009 after a 20-year career with JP Morgan Chase, where she most recently was a senior executive on the national leadership team for private client services. -PR Newswire
Saban Brands announced that David Shuman has joined the company as VP of finance.
Shuman recently served as executive VP of finance for the North American divisions of Live Nation and senior VP of development for the company.
Rami Yanni has also joined the company as senior VP of business and legal affairs.
Yanni previously chaired the trademark practice group at Greenberg Glusker in Los Angeles. -Daily Variety
State Street Global Advisors announced the appointment of Kristi Mitchem to senior managing director and global head of its defined contribution business.
In this new position Mitchem, 39, is responsible for advancing SSgA’s global defined contribution business including product development, distribution, pricing, client service, operations and marketing activities. She will also work closely with SSgA’s offices and investment centers worldwide to build a competitive defined contribution offering that is tailored to meet regional and country-specific requirements. She reports to Jamie Kase, executive vice president and head of global sales and marketing at State Street Global Advisors.
Mitchem joins SSgA from BlackRock, where she most recently served as managing director and head of the US defined contribution business. -Business Wire
Vestar Capital Partners announced Steven Della Rocca will join the firm as managing director and general counsel.
In his new capacity, Mr. Della Rocca will focus on all aspects of corporate and transactional law, as well as fund partnership matters. He will join Vestar by mid-summer, replacing Jack Feder.
Mr. Della Rocca brings 30 years of extensive legal expertise and experience in all aspects of corporate and transactional law to Vestar. Prior to joining Vestar, he held senior management leadership and policy-making roles at Latham & Watkins in New York, including serving on the firm’s global executive committee and as the chairman of the New York corporate department.
BlueBay Asset Management announced that Mark Dowding joins the compnay as a senior portfolio manager.
Dowding will co-head the European investment grade team at BlueBay, and lead the development of a European government bond business at the firm. His main focus will be on government bonds.
Dowding comes to BlueBay from Deutsche Asset Management, where he was European head of institutional fixed income. He was previously at Invesco, where he worked closely with BlueBay’s head of investment grade credit, Raphael Robelin. -Regulatory News Service
Barclays Wealth announced the appointment of Steve Houston as head of wealth management, Americas.
In his new role, Houston will be responsible regionally for building the firm’s high net worth client business as well as managing and expanding the investment representative network. He will report directly to Mitch Cox, head of Barclays Wealth, Americas, and head of global research and investments for all of Barclays Wealth.
Houston assumes the position from Jack Petersen, who will become an investment representative in the Barclays Wealth New York office.
Houston, a managing director, has joined Barclays Wealth in 2009 as global head of relationship management and distribution. From 1999 to 2009, he has worked in global wealth management at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in several senior roles including sales and product development leadership positions and was previously with Bankers Trust Private Bank.
Barclays Wealth has announced that it has hired Dana Jacobs as a managing director and investment representative, and Alan Vorwald as a director and investment representative in the Los Angeles office.
Jacobs, who has more than 16 years of wealth management experience, has most recently worked at HSBC Private Bank for five years. She was previously with Credit Suisse and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
Vorwald joins Barclays Wealth from HSBC Private Bank with more than 11 years of industry experience. He was with HSBC for the past five years and previously held positions at Credit Suisse and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
Starwood Capital Group announced that Christopher Keber has joined the company as director of global capital raising and investor relations.
Assuming this new position at the firm, Mr. Keber will lead a group responsible for the investor outreach efforts of the firm, including capital-raising, investor relations and marketing.
Prior to joining Starwood, Mr. Keber worked in the New York office of the real estate private fund group at Credit Suisse, a leading global private placement group focused on fundraising for private equity vehicles dedicated to real estate. In this capacity, he was responsible for sourcing third-party discretionary equity from investors representing public and private pension funds, insurance companies, endowments, fund-of-funds, sovereign wealth funds, high net worth families and institutional consultants, primarily in the United States and Europe. Previously, he was employed at Trinity Partners/Trinity Capital Advisors a real estate services and investment firm where, as a managing director he led the corporate services group, advising owners, users and developers of institutional real estate. Prior to that, he was national director, business development, at Little Diversified Architectural Consulting (then Little & Associates), a national architectural, engineering and planning firm focused on commercial real estate. -PR Newswire
State Street Global Advisors announced the appointment of Alistair (Ali) Lowe as global equities chief investment officer. He replaces Arlene Rockefeller.
In his new position, Lowe will direct SSgA’s active and enhanced equity teams globally in the development and management of quantitative active and enhanced equity strategies. He will report to global chief investment officer, Rick Lacaille.
Lowe previously served as the CIO for Multi Asset Class Solutions.
Dan Farley has been named global head of investments for Multi Asset Class Solutions. He will replace Lowe. -Business Wire
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