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• Kaku Nakhate Joins Bank of America Merrill Lynch

  Bank of America Merrill Lynch has announced that Kaku Nakhate has joined the company to become country head of India, replacing Kevan Watts. She will report to Brian Brille, president, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Asia Pacific. Nakhate joins from JP Morgan where she was vice chairman of JP Morgan India. Prior to that, she held [...]

• Aaron Hill and Keith Sipes Join Thomas Weisel Partners Group

  Thomas Weisel Partners Group announced the Aaron Hill has joined the firm as a managing director and head of telecom investment banking and Keith Sipes has joined the firm as a director in investment banking focused on media. Mr. Hill has spent 25 years as an investment banker most recently at Cowen and Company, where he [...]

• Michael Tu Joins Global Hunter Securities

  Global Hunter Securities announced that Michael Tu has joined the company’s research department as vice president and senior analyst, healthcare. Tu will focus on Global Hunter’s expanding coverage of healthcare companies, including those which are based in China and the U.S. Tu brings to Global Hunter more than a decade of experience, most recently serving as a [...]

• Houlihan Lokey Appoints Robert Hyer

  Houlihan Lokey announced that Robert Hyer joined the firm from Greenhill to head a new practice focusing on companies in the financial technology industry. Hyer, a 23-year veteran, will be joined by Bruce Urbanek, a financial technology specialist formerly with Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. Hyer also spent nine years at Citigroup, where he established the bank’s global [...]

• Nomura Appoints Mark Edgar

  Nomura has appointed Mark Edgar to lead its US convertible bond sales business. Edgar comes from Jones Trading where he set up the equity firm’s convertible bond trading desk. -M2 EquityBites

• Susquehanna Financial Appoints Michael Towey

  Susquehanna Financial announced that Michael Towey has joined the company as director of research. He will be based in SFG’s New York office. Mr. Towey has worked in the equities arena for more than 15 years, most recently at Pali Capital where he was co-head of U.S. equities. Prior to joining Pali, he worked for CIBC [...]

• Starwood Capital Group Appoints Steven Hankin

  Starwood Capital Group named Steven Hankin as managing director, portfolio operations, giving him oversight over Starwood’s portfolio of corporate investments. He will be based in Starwood Capital’s headquarters in Greenwich, Connecticut and be part of the senior management team that reports directly to chairman and CEO Barry Sternlicht. Prior to Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Mr. [...]

• Tom Humphrey Joins GoldenTree Asset Management

  GoldenTree Asset Management announced that Tom Humphrey has joined the firm as a partner and member of the executive committee. Mr. Humphrey will work closely with partners and executive committee members Frank Jordan and Leon Wagner on issues related to firm strategy, client franchise development and the continued expansion of GoldenTree. He  will report to GoldenTree’s [...]

• Citigroup Appoints John Liptak

  Citigroup has appointed John Liptak to join the bank’s Asia-Pacific credit trading team as head of Asia-Pacific distressed and special situations. Liptak will continue to be based in Hong Kong. He will report to Naresh Narayan for the Japan part of the business and David Rosa for Asia excluding- Japan portions of the business. Liptak is a [...]

• Montgomery Appoints Paul DiNardo

  Montgomery announced that Paul DiNardo has joined the firm as vice chairman and head of technology banking. DiNardo will lead the firm’s technology practice from its San Francisco office. With over 20 years experience in software investment banking and corporate development, DiNardo joins Montgomery most recently from Credit Suisse Group, where he was a managing director and head [...]

• Hirtle, Callaghan Appoints Jamie R. Johnson

  Hirtle, Callaghan has named Jamie R. Johnson as director of private equity. Johnson brings more than two decades of private equity experience to his new position, including nine years managing investment portfolios for leading industrial families in Europe. Johnson most recently served as a managing director of Paul Capital Investments. -Business Wire

• Phoenix Realty Group Appoints Edward J. Ratinoff

  Phoenix Realty Group announced the appointment of Edward J. Ratinoff as managing director, national acquisitions. Ratinoff will oversee the firm’s acquisitions teams focused on two private equity real estate funds currently in their commitment periods in New York City and Los Angeles, targeting investments in urban residential and commercial properties in the greater Los Angeles and [...]

• Accident Fund Insurance Appoints Lisa Riddle

  Accident Fund Insurance announced that Lisa Riddle has been named as the new vice president of claims and medical operations, succeeding Steve Cooper, who was recently named president of United Heartland, a subsidiary of Accident Fund Holdings. In her new role, Riddle is responsible for the strategic direction of Accident Fund’s claims operations and medical-cost management. [...]

• Deutsche Bank Appoints Kees Hoving

  Deutsche Bank’s global transaction banking division has appointed Kees Hoving as managing director and regional head of trade finance and cash management corporates business for Germany. Based in Frankfurt, Mr. Hoving will report globally to Marilyn Spearing, Deutsche Bank’s global head of trade finance and cash management corporates, and regionally to Reinhard-E Uhl, regional head of [...]

• Kevin Frisch and Peter Marquis Join FBR Capital Markets

  FBR Capital Markets announced that Kevin Frisch and Peter Marquis have joined the firm as managing directors within investment banking. Mr. Frisch joins FBR Capital Markets’ diversified industrials group in Arlington, Virginia, and Mr. Marquis joins the energy & natural resources group in New York. Mr. Frisch joins FBR Capital Markets after spending nearly 10 years of [...]

• Stone & Youngberg Promotes Kevin Schultze, Brian Fox, Mike Blake, Jason Aiello, Andrew Blesser, Mike Finley, Jake Campos, Jared Boldemean, John Hutchinson, J.P. Scanlon, Marie Autphenne, Betsy Keyes and Charlene Graham

  Stone & Youngberg, announced key promotions across all areas of the firm. Kevin Schultze has been promoted to managing director in the portfolio strategy group. Schultze is the firm’s acting chief economist, responsible for developing fixed income strategies for the firm’s institutional fixed income clients. He has more than 20 years expertise in fixed income portfolio management. Brian [...]

• Eric Retzlaff Joins Lightstone Securities

  Lightstone Securities announced that Eric Retzlaff has joined the company as senior vice president for business development. He will report to Stephen H. Hamrick, the company’s president. Retzlaff will focus initially on Lightstone’s growing network of broker-dealers. Prior to joining Lightstone Securities, Retzlaff served as a senior vice president for AXA Equitable. -PR Newswire

• R.J. O’Brien & Associates Appoints Steffen van Keppel and Tod Mitchell

  R.J. O’Brien & Associates announced that it has hired two experienced brokers to head the the firm’s energy brokerage team. Steffen van Keppel and Tod Mitchell have joined RJO, both as senior vice president, energy. Van Keppel and Mitchell will help grow RJO’s existing energy business and service institutional and commercial clients with their expertise. Working as a [...]

• Robert D. Brown Joins Advent International

  Advent International announced that Robert D. Brown has joined the firm as a managing director and global head of limited partner Services. Mr. Brown is responsible for Advent’s fundraising and investor relations activities worldwide. Prior to Advent, Mr. Brown was a managing director at The Carlyle Group focusing on North American fundraising and investor relations. -PR Newswire

• Northern Trust Appoints David McPhillips

  Northern Trust announced that David McPhillips has been named director of consultant relations for the corporate & institutional services business unit in North America. In this role, McPhillips will work closely with client service, sales, product development and operations teams to manage the asset servicing unit’s interaction with North American consultants. McPhillips comes to the consultant relations [...]

• Scott Brooks Joins DWS Investments

  DWS Investments announced the appointment of Scott Brooks as a director responsible for third party insurance national accounts. Brooks will be responsible for managing client relationships with insurance companies and sub-advised mutual fund firms. He will be based in New York reporting to Michael Woods, a managing director and US head of distribution for DWS Investments [...]

• New Enterprise Associates Appoints Ron Bernal

  New Enterprise Associates announced that technology industry veteran Ron Bernal has joined the firm as a venture partner. In this new role, Mr. Bernal, a former entrepreneur-in-residence with NEA, will work closely with the firm’s enterprise infrastructure and services, electronics and energy technology teams. Mr. Bernal has spent nearly eight years in the venture capital industry and, [...]

• Blue Marble Media Appoints Jin Kyung Yang

  Blue Marble Media announced that Jin Kyung Yang has been appointed as president and a director of the company, replacing Sung Wook Chung. -SEC Filing

• Pacific Life Promotes David Chang, Greg Cleveland and Lisa Fields

  Pacific Life Insurance announced the following promotions to assistant vice president, effective April 1, 2010. David Chang has been promoted to assistant vice president, risk management, retirement solutions division. In his new role, Mr. Chang will direct the risk management team supporting Pacific Life’s variable annuity products. He will also provide input and advice to senior management [...]

• Deutsche Bank Securities Appoints Michael Linenberg

  Deutsche Bank Securities announced that Michael Linenberg has joined as a managing director and senior company research analyst within its global markets division. Based in New York, Linenberg will oversee airline and aircraft leasing research in the US and report to Steve Pollard, managing director and head of research in the Americas. Prior to joining the bank, [...]

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