Category Archives: Hires & Fires

Optima compliance advisory firm hires ex-SEC official Michele Foldenauer as a director

By Andrei Skvarsky. Financial regulatory compliance advisory firm Optima Partners has hired Michele Foldenauer, a former senior official at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as a director. Foldenauer will focus on hedge funds, private equity funds, investment advisers, broker-dealers and global financial services firms, corporate communication company PRNewswire cited Optima as saying. Immediately… Continue Reading

Permira reports appointments in credit, healthcare units

By Andrei Skvarsky. Investment firm Permira has promoted David Hirschmann and Ariadna Stefanescu to the roles of co-heads of the Permira Credit unit while Jon Serbousek was hired as a senior adviser to Permira’s global healthcare team and Jon Marschmeyer joined the firm’s New York healthcare division as a partner. Hirschmann and Stefanescu will retain… Continue Reading

FX & CFD broker ActivTrades hires Matteo Paganini as chief commercial officer

ActivTrades, a global foreign exchange (FX) and contract-for-differences (CFD) broker, has hired Matteo Paganini as chief commercial officer. In his new role Paganini, who had a series of jobs at brokerages before joining ActivTrades, will, among other things, work to develop new products such as an investor profile account with zero commissions and zero swaps on CFDs… Continue Reading

Shamsa Al-Falasi takes the helm at Citibank’s UAE division

Citi has appointed Shamsa Al-Falasi chief executive of Citibank’s onshore branch in the United Arab Emirates and chief administrative officer for all on- and offshore Citi entities in the UAE, Emirati newspapers The National, Gulf News and Khaleej Times and other sources cited Citi as saying. After joining Citi in 2004, Al-Falasi had postings in… Continue Reading

France’s Carmignac makes two hires to run merger arbitrage funds

By Andrei Skvarsky. Paris-based asset management firm Carmignac has enlarged its alternative investment team by hiring Fabienne Cretin-Fumeron and Stéphane Dieudonné from Candriam, a subsidiary of U.S. insurance company New York Life, as merger arbitrage managers. Cretin-Fumeron and Dieudonné both have 18-year experience in merger arbitrage, also known as risk arbitrage, a risk avoidance investment… Continue Reading

Balyasny Asset Management promotes seven execs to partner role

Chicago-headquartered global firm Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) has made seven additions to its group of partners. All seven joined BAM between 2013 and 2021, according to a statement from the asset management firm. They are: Mayank Chamadia, a portfolio manager and co-head of BAM’s New York office. Chamadia’s pre-BAM career included jobs with Barclays Capital,… Continue Reading

Prop trader The Trading Pit hires Daniela Egli as CEO

Proprietary trading company The Trading Pit has hired Daniela Egli as its chief executive officer. Egli will be based at The Trading Pit’s business headquarters in Limassol, Cyprus, according to a statement from the company. The firm is formally domiciled in Liechtenstein, where its office is headed by Thomas Heyden. Egli comes to The Trading… Continue Reading

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority hires Michael Steliaros from Goldman Sachs for senior equity portfolio job

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the emirate’s sovereign investment fund, has hired Michael Steliaros from Goldman Sachs as global head of equity portfolio engineering and trading in its Core Portfolio Department. At Goldman Sachs, Steliaros was global head of quantitative execution services, which is a research and development division. Previously, he held senior London-… Continue Reading

The Trading Pit hires Periklis Hanna as head of marketing operations

The Trading Pit, a company headquartered in Bavaria and trading in a variety of assets, including futures and cryptocurrencies, has announced it has hired Periklis Hanna as head of marketing operations. The Trading Pit offers facilities for trading in assets such as cryptos, shares, foreign exchange, options, futures for a diversity of commodities and contracts… Continue Reading

Permira Credit hires ex-Carlyle manager Ian Jackson to oversee strategy unit

Global investment firm Permira said Ian Jackson, a former senior manager at financial services corporation Carlyle and Deutsche Bank, has been hired to head Permira Strategic Opportunities (PSO) at Permira Credit, the firm’s credit investment arm. Jackson spent 13 and a half years at The Carlyle Group, which is a multinational company headquartered in Washington,… Continue Reading

Russia’s Sberbank announces restructuring, staff moves

By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, on February 15 announced plans for structural changes and for a consequent senior staff reshuffle. The changes are due to be completed by June 1, 2022, according to a statement from the bank. Sberbank’s key non-banking business, e-commerce, would be overseen by a holding company to be set… Continue Reading

Russia’s Sberbank confirms Ekaterina Latypova as head of agile

By Andrei Skvarsky. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has definitively appointed vice-president Ekaterina Latypova as head of agile transformation, a position she has held provisionally since August 2021, and has raised her status to senior vice-president. Latypova joined Sberbank in 2015 as vice-president and head of strategy and development. Since then the bank has approved three… Continue Reading

RenCap announces two hires for Africa team, one hire for London unit

By Andrei Skvarsky. Investment bank Renaissance Capital has announced three hires – two for technology-related research positions in its Africa operation and one for a London-based role of overseeing the firm’s relations with key institutional and retail clients. Yusuf Ibrahim has been hired as an analyst for venture investment in private-sector technology companies in Africa, including… Continue Reading

Julius Baer announces staff moves for Swiss market, makes hires for Moscow investment unit

By Andrei Skvarsky. Swiss bank Julius Baer has announced staff moves in its central management in Switzerland and made hires for its Moscow-based investment consultancy for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Gilles Stuck, today’s head of structured finance, will be in charge of the Zurich-headquartered bank’s entire Switzerland business with effect from… Continue Reading

World Bank appoints David Knight lead economist for Russia

The World Bank has appointed David Knight, earlier a senior economist for the international bank and an adviser in the British and Sierra Leonean governments, as the lead economist for Russia with effect from September 1, 2021. Before his current appointment, Knight, who will be based in Moscow, was the World Bank’s senior economist for… Continue Reading

RenCap hires Boris Sinitsyn as global metals and mining analyst

Emerging and frontier markets investment bank Renaissance Capital has hired Boris Sinitsyn from VTB Capital as analyst for metals and mining to cover the firm’s M&M business in all its markets. Sinitsyn will be based in Moscow and report to Daniel Salter, global head of equity strategy and head of research for Eurasia, RenCap said… Continue Reading

Alessandra Galloni appointed Reuters editor-in-chief as Steve Adler is going

Alessandra Galloni has been appointed editor-in-chief of Reuters to replace Steve Adler, who retires at the end of April, Reuters president Michael Friedenberg said in a statement. Galloni, previously global managing editor at Reuters, will oversee 2,500 journalists in 200 locations around the world. Before joining Reuters in 2013 as editor of the Southern Europe… Continue Reading

EM communications firm & investment consultancy hires Anna Vasilenko as CEO, appoints Tom Blackwell chairman

Anna Vasilenko, an ex-head of primary markets at the Moscow Exchange, has been hired as chief executive officer of emerging markets communications firm and investment consultancy EM to replace Tom Blackwell, who is moving to the newly created role as chairman of the EM management board. Before joining the Moscow Exchange, Vasilenko had worked at… Continue Reading

Olga Turischeva hired from VC firm to head Sber University

Sberbank Corporate University (Sber University), an institution belonging to Russia’s biggest lender Sberbank, has a new rector, Olga Turischeva, who has been hired from Russian venture capital firm RTP Global, the bank said in a statement. Turischeva’s record includes jobs at Russia’s search engine Rambler, consumer electronic retail chain M.video and telecommunications company Vimpelcom. Sber… Continue Reading

Guernsey Finance rep to promote Guernsey financial services in S. Africa

Guernsey Finance, a public-private agency for the promotion of Guernsey’s financial services industry, has appointed its first dedicated representative to South Africa, giving the role to Grant McLeod, who has had a long career in the African country’s financial sector. McLeod’s duties will include promoting the Channel island’s financial industry not only in South Africa… Continue Reading

Sberbank media chief Dobrokhvalova to simultaneously head Rambler

Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has announced that the head of its media, advertising and entertainments division, Tatyana Dobrokhvalova, has been appointed as chief executive officer of Russian internet company Rambler, a Sberbank subsidiary, a position she will combine with her current Sberbank post. As CEO of Rambler, a company that runs one of Russia’s key… Continue Reading

Sberbank promotes tech unit chief to senior VP

Konstantin Kruglov, chief executive of the SberDevices department of Sberbank’s technology division, has been promoted to senior vice-president of Russia’s biggest lender. Kruglov will remain in the technology division and will continue to oversee the development of artificial intelligence-based solutions for speech, natural language processing, face and voice authentication and virtual assistants technologies, Sberbank said… Continue Reading

Andrey Shemetov raised to senior VP of Sberbank, tasked with global business, investment, oversight of key clients

Russia’s biggest lender Sberbank has promoted Andrey Shemetov, one of its senior managers, to the rank of senior vice-president with the duties of overseeing activities in world markets, investment business, and work with key clients. In this position, Shemetov will be one of the top figures in the corporate and investment arm, Sberbank’s largest division,… Continue Reading

Seychelles-based CFD broker M4Markets hires Marilena Iakovou from Tickmill as head of marketing

By Andrei Skvarsky. M4Markets, a foreign exchange (FX) and contract-for-differences (CFD) brokerage headquartered in Seychelles, has announced it has hired Marilena Iakovou from FX broker Tickmill as chief marketing officer (CMO). A CFD is a financial derivatives trading deal where the difference between the open and closing trade prices is paid by the buyer to… Continue Reading

EM communications firm makes three senior hires

By Andrei Skvarsky. EM, an emerging markets communications and investor relations consultancy, has made three senior hires with Daria Khilenkova joining the company in Moscow, Jamie Hyman in London and Yury Krebs in Valencia. Khilenkova, who comes from investment bank Renaissance Capital, is in charge of financial communications in Moscow, according to an EM statement.… Continue Reading

Sberbank appoints head of marketing, names head of Sberbank Life Insurance

By Andrei Skvarsky. Russia’s biggest lender Sberbank has vested vice-president Vladislav Kreynin with the duties of head of marketing and communications to supplement his current role of chief growth officer for the SberX ecosystem and named ex-Raiffeisen banker Igor Kobzar as chief executive of Sberbank Life Insurance. Kreynin will receive the title of Sberbank senior… Continue Reading