S&P Capital IQ Power Moves

Wells Fargo & Company has announced that it has named Perry DeLuca as head of its wine, food and beverage group in its Santa Rosa-based North Coast commercial lending office.

In that role, DeLuca, a 10-year veteran of wine industry finance, will provide lending and other banking services to middle market industry companies.

DeLuca joins the group after 15 years in financial services. For the past decade, he has focused on financial services to wineries, beverage companies and the food and agricultural industry. In his most recent role, he served as a director at Cleveland-based KeyBank’s capital markets division, where he was the national head of wine & spirits/beverage distribution. He also served at San Francisco investment banking firm WR Hambrecht + Co. and in middle market commercial banking at Washington D.C.-based Riggs Bank.  -Global Banking News / Northbay Business Journal

Wells Fargo & Company announced the following appointments as part of a reorganization of its insurance units’ management.

Neal Aton will lead Wells Fargo’s new centralized insurance business, including consumer and small business insurance products and distribution, which will work closely with Wells Fargo’s community banking, consumer lending group, wealth management and business banking groups to enhance insurance distribution to these customer segments.

Anne Doss will lead Wells Fargo’s national practice and specialty group, including national resources for Wells Fargo’s property and casualty and employee benefit units, as well as the life insurance, international broker network and third party administrator retail operations. She will also be responsible for growing Wells Fargo’s specialty resource group which provides targeted insurance programs to industries such as real estate, health care, public entity, aviation, and hospitality.

Kevin Kenny will lead Wells Fargo’s new distributed insurance brokerage group.

Scott Isaacson will lead Wells Fargo’s insurance strategy group, which is responsible for developing Wells Fargo insurance’s overall strategy, managing insurance carrier relationships as well as industry relations and analytics.

H. David Wood will lead Wells Fargo’s insurance operations group, which is responsible for strengthening technology, back office functions, project management, and re-engineering processes to streamline operations and improve customer service, as well as the mergers and acquisitions unit, which will identify, evaluate, acquire, and integrate strategic acquisition targets. -Business Wire

Wells Fargo & Company announced that it has appointed Bora Sila as the new head of its consumer and retail M&A, and that Adam Berger has been appointed as head of healthcare M&A.

Sila has experience of over 20-year in consumer and retail M&A. Previously, he worked as head of Americas retail investment banking at UBS, from 2009 to 2011.

Berger has experience of over 22-year in M&A banking. Before this new appointment, he worked as head of M&A at Leerink Swann, from 2008 to 2011.

Wells Fargo & Company announced that Laura L. Schupbach, a 16-year veteran of the company, has been named the new head of insurance services. She will be based in Denver, Colorado, where she currently resides.

In her new role, Schupbach will oversee Wells Fargo Insurance Services. She succeeds David Zuercher.

The company also named Charlie Roberson, a 21-year veteran of Wells Fargo, to succeed Schupbach as the head of enterprise expense management.

Roberson will lead the company’s ongoing Project Compass expense management program along with other areas of responsibility. He will report to CFO Tim Sloan. -Business Wire

Wells Fargo & Company has named Leroy Startz as senior relationship manager for its food & agribusiness industry specialty group.

Based in Dallas, Startz will be responsible for developing and managing agribusiness relationships for the southwest and southern divisions of Wells Fargo’s commercial banking group.

Startz will be part of a senior team led by Vito Carbone and John Weubbe, co-industry managers for Wells Fargo’s food & agribusiness group.

Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Startz was the director of agribusiness finance at John Deere Credit. -Business Wire

Wells Fargo & Company announced that Jorge Villalba, a 12-year industry veteran, recently joined Wells Fargo to lead the fund services group, which provides fund administration services including a full suite of back-, middle-, and front-office products and services to private equity firms, exchange traded commodities (ETC), commodity funds, hedge funds, fund of funds and the structured finance marketplace.

The group is based in Columbia, MD, Houston, TX and New York City, NY. -Business Wire

Wells Fargo & Company announced that Tim Sloan has been named to the new position of chief administrative officer. He will report directly to chief executive officer, president and chairman John G. Stumpf.

Sloan will assume leadership of the company’s brand, reputation management, stakeholder engagement and people development efforts.

With more than 25 years of experience in corporate, commercial and real estate banking, Sloan has served most recently as an executive vice president and Wells Fargo’s head of commercial banking, real estate and specialized financial services, a role he assumed in 2006. In that role, he oversaw operations within the wholesale banking group that provided credit and non-credit products and services to customers worldwide. -Business Wire

Wells Fargo announced that Steve Godfrey has been named head of its foreign exchange e-commerce division.

Based in San Francisco Godfrey will oversee strategy development and product execution for Wells Fargo’s electronic foreign exchange services. He will report to Sara Wardell-Smith.

Godfrey brings to Wells Fargo a wide range of banking experience focused on the design and deployment of global electronic trading systems. Prior to this role, he was head of foreign exchange esolutions at Bank of America where he was responsible for client-facing trading, hedging platforms and managed international payment products for retail and commercial customers through online cash management systems. Before joining Bank of America, he held positions at TSA Capital Management and Sanwa Trust Bank. -Business Wire

Wells Fargo announced that Nancy Feldman has joined the company as managing director and head of public finance credit strategies.

Don Lipkin has also joined as managing director and desk credit analyst.

In their roles within government & institutional banking (GIB), Feldman and Lipkin will provide credit strategy and analysis to issuers and investors, respectively.

Feldman will focus on strategies for municipal issuers to manage credit ratings, bond structure and execution options. She will report to Peter Hill, head of government & institutional banking’s public finance investment banking segment.

Lipkin will provide credit and market analytical reports for the top institutional investors and support flow trading. He will report to Martin Bingham, head of GIB’s sales, trading and syndicate segment.

Both executives are based in New York City.

With over 25 years of financial services experience, Feldman joins in the company from the State of New Jersey, where she served for four years as the director of the Treasury Department’s office of public finance.

Lipkin joins in the company from U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, where he served for the last year as a managing director, senior research analyst and head of fixed income research. -Business Wire

Wells Fargo announced that Jim Rowe has been appointed director of investor relations, succeeding  Bob Strickland.

Rowe was named deputy director of Wells Fargo investor relations in 2007 and has nearly 30 years of experience in the financial services industry. Before that, he was head of product sales and marketing in the internet services group. -Business Wire

Wells Fargo announced that it has hired a new leader for its food and agribusiness industry group.

Lance Holden, a former Commerce Bank executive, will be responsible for developing and managing agribusiness relationships among food and fiber producers in central and eastern states. Holden, who will be based in Kansas City, also will head the grain merchandising and flour mill sectors.

Before joining Wells Fargo, Holden was the agribusiness and food processing group division manager at Commerce Bank. -Associated Press Online

Wells Fargo announced that it has named John Manning as head of the commercial banking division for Greater Los Angeles. He succeeds Edmond Lelo, who now heads the cross-border relationship management team for the company’s international group in London.

In his new role, Manning oversees the company’s commercial banking operations in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, and Warner Ranch.

Manning has more than 23 years of financial services experience. Most recently, he served as regional vice president of Wells Fargo’s San Gabriel Valley regional commercial banking office. He has worked 15 years for Wells Fargo, serving in a variety of commercial banking roles.

Manning became head of the San Gabriel Valley regional commercial banking office in 2005. Before joining Wells Fargo, he worked for 1st Business Bank and National Westminster Bank USA.

Manning also serves as a trustee of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo. -Business Wire

Ronald Stack joins Wells Fargo as a managing director and head of the Northeast public finance team, Edward Boyles joins as managing director and head of the Southeast public finance team, and Robert Hobson joins as a managing director reporting to Boyles.

Stack will lead the Northeast public finance team, which includes New England, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia.

Before joining Wells Fargo, Stack served as managing director and head of public finance for the past 10 years with Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers.

Boyles will lead the Southeast Public Finance team, which includes Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee.

Hobson, along with fellow managing director Steve Schemmel, will focus on government and nonprofit entities in Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

Hobson joined Wells Fargo from Banc of American Securities, where he worked for nine years as a senior municipal bond investment banker covering North Carolina and South Carolina. -Business Wire

Rick Chisholm joins Wells Fargo as a managing director and co-head of the education and nonprofit group, and Frank Farley joins as a managing director and co-head of the Southwest Public Finance team.

Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Chisholm served as co-head of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch education and nonprofit public finance team. He brings two decades of experience in the higher education, cultural institution and nonprofit public finance arena. Chisholm has also managed the corporate tax-exempt group and served as a senior banker both in mergers and acquisitions and Latin America corporate finance at Banc of America Securities.

Farley has more than 27 years of investment banking experience, spending nearly all of that time in Texas and the Southwestern U.S. He has served as a managing director and manager of Southwest public finance groups for Banc of America Securities, UBS Investment Bank, PaineWebber and Credit Suisse First Boston.

Wells Fargo has also hired managing director John Norman, Mark Shea and Tyler Noble to lead its expanding energy & corporate public finance group. The focus of this group is to fulfill the capital market financing needs of municipal power, gas and electric cooperative clients. Focused on structured energy and project finance, Norman’s team will assist municipal utility clients with financing solutions for economic energy acquisitions, and support utility cooperatives and clean renewable energy projects. Some of the solutions the team creates will include financing structures that were created or enhanced under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, such as Build America bonds and new clean renewable energy bonds.

Shea has 27 years of energy industry experience, serving for the past six years as a principal for the structured energy and federal finance group at Banc of America Securities.

Noble has 16 years of experience in public finance and for the past nine years worked as a principal for Banc of America Securities’ Structured Energy and Federal Finance Group. -Business Wire

Wells Fargo & Company named Oscar Suris as head of corporate communications and an executive vice president of the company. Suris joins Wells Fargo from Ford Motor Company where he served most recently as director of corporate communications and development. He succeeds Larry Haeg, who led corporate communications at Wells Fargo and its predecessor, Norwest Corporation, for 20 years. Haeg, who plans to retire in 2010, will continue with the company as an advisor. Patricia Callahan, an executive vice president who oversees the office of transition for the Wells Fargo-Wachovia merger, corporate communications, corporate human resources, enterprise expense management and the social responsibility group. Most recently at Ford, Suris was strategic communications lead for executive chairman Bill Ford and the automaker’s philanthropic arm, Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services. -Business Wire

Wells Fargo named Peter J. Hill a 25-year investment banking veteran head of public finance investment banking. Hill is based in New York City where Wells Fargo plans to headquarter its public finance investment banking business. In his new role, Hill will report to Smith and manage the company’s public finance investment banking business.