Daily People Moves – 16 March

Asset Management

PIMCO,  has announced the promotion of the following officers to MD. Libby Cantrill is an MD and Head of Public Policy; Rick Chan is MD and Portfolio Manager in the Newport Beach office, focusing on interest rate derivatives; Josh Davis is an MD and Portfolio Manager in the Newport Beach office; Alessandro Gandolfi is an MD and Head of Italy; Russell Gannaway is an MD and Commercial Credit Portfolio Manager in the Newport Beach office, focusing on commercial real estate and commercial mortgage-backed securities; Ryan Korinke is an MD in the Hong Kong office and Head of Hedge Fund and Quantitative Strategies; Julie Meggers is an MD and Global Head of Consultant Relations and Alternatives Marketing;


Christian Staub, Blackrock’s country chief for Switzerland, is leaving the U.S. firm for a leading position at a rival in Europe. Chief Operating Officer Michael Burch will assume the duties of Staub in Zurich ad interim.


Bill Gourlay has been hired by AON as global head of investment product development, a newly created role. He will be responsible for leading the firm’s work in assessing the viability of new investment solutions, as well as developing and launching them and monitoring their progress when in use by clients.


Principal Global Investors (PGI) – Frank Richter has been joined the firm to lead its German and Austrian operations.


Fidelity International has appointed Christian Staub as managing director of its Continental European business. Staub succeeds from Jon Skillman, who will be moving to a new role in the company managing Global Workplace Investing.


 

Hedge Funds

Analyst John McVey has joined Islet Management, a startup equity manager led by former Och-Ziff Capital partner Joseph Samuels.


Daniel Hoinacki joined York Capital’s New York office this month in a senior marketing role. Hoinacki previously was at Tricadia Capital, where he started in 2016.


Brigade Capital has hired a senior analyst. Max Scherr arrived at the New York credit-product manager on March 5 from a similar position at Panning Capital, where he had worked since 2012.


Technology-focused equity manager Alta Park Capital has hired an analyst. Ka-Wai To joins the San Francisco operation from Partner Fund Management, where he had worked since 2015 as a generalist.


Startup Yaupon Capital has hired a chief operating officer. Robert Burkley arrived at the New York operation in February from a managing director post at Och- Ziff Capital, where he started in 2005.


Contour Asset Management has appointed a new marketing chief this month. Tom Cahill started at the New York fund operator, coming from ShearLink Capital.


Technology-stock specialist Alberto Mann has joined Surveyor Capital as an analyst. Mann arrived in the Citadel equity-trading unit’s New York office in February from a senior analyst post at Glenhill Capital, where he had worked since 2014.


Analyst, Joshua Chekofsky, who covers the stocks of industrial and energy companies has joined Capstone Investment.


Long/short equity firm Waycross Partners has hired an operations manager. Emily O’Leary joined the Louisville, Ky., firm in January.


Vadim Nagaev has left his vice-president post in Goldman Sachs’ risk-management division to become an assistant portfolio manager at General Quantitative, a New York firm with $56 million under management.


Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC is shutting its European hedge fund as the firm refocuses on its main products under the new leadership of Robert Shafir, according to people with knowledge of the matter.


IBD / Capital Markets

Bank of America Corp has promoted two veteran investment bankers to be co-heads of U.S. mergers and acquisitions, Kevin Brunner and Ivan Farman.


French corporate and investment bank Natixis appointed Janie Wittey senior country manager, Australia, and chief executive officer of Natixis Australia.


Swiss bank UBS is merging its equity and debt capital market businesses in Asia Pacific. Gaetano Bassolino, currently head of the debt capital market business in the region, will take on the role head of Asia Pacific capital markets with immediate effect. Hannah Malter will move into equity capital markets to support Selina Cheung.


Citigroup has appointed Laura Coady head of the EMEA structured finance syndicate desk. In what is a newly created position, she takes responsibility for distributing all products from the bank’s global structured finance and securitisation group.


Insurance

HSBC Insurance (Singapore) announced the appointment of Mr Carlos Vazquez as its new CEO. Mr Vazquez succeeds Mr Ian Martin, who will be assuming a new global role in HSBC Group Insurance based in London.


Aon has appointed Mr Adam Cox as the new Director of One Underwriting to lead Aon’s expanding managing general agent business, with former One Underwriting Director, Ms Alison Smith, moving into Aon’s broking area, appointed as the new Regional Director, Southern and Western – Commercial.


Markel Corporation announced that Ms Julia Chu has been appointed Chief Global Ceded Reinsurance Officer, effective immediately.


Private Banking / Wealth Management

Robert A. “Bob” Johnson, a 21-year veteran of Merrill Lynch, will join Stifel Financial Corp, Nicolaus retail brokerage network next month as a manager to run a newly established Texas region.


Private Equity / Direct Investment

Madison International Realty has hired an associate. Yichao Mark started at the New York fund shop’s headquarters this month. He was previously an analyst at Cleveland investment consultant ORG Portfolio Management and had prior stints at Markets Group and MacKenzie Partners.


Hammes Partners has hired a senior vice president. Phil Mahler joined the Brookfield, Wis., fund operator this month. He was previously a managing director at HFF.


Max Wasser joined Dalzell Capital last week as a vice president, focusing on acquisitions and capital markets.


JLL has added Hunter Amos to its multi-family team as a senior vice president in Atlanta. He started in the past several weeks, handling investment sales and lining up equity for properties in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and the Carolinas.


Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) – The global organisation representing private equity investors has named Steven Nelson as its new chief executive officer, effective from 26 March.


Riccardo Millich has been named sales director at HSBC Securities Services in Luxembourg, a newly created role. He will be responsible for the firm’s local sales strategy and supporting its business growth with all countries and asset classes in scope of UCITS and AIFMD.


Citigroup has hired Melvyn Merran from UBS in a newly created role as European head of credit trading for exchange-traded funds.

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