CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS
KPMG
The accountancy firm has appointed Rachel Campbell as global head of people, performance and culture and a member of its global executive team.
Campbell is currently head of people for the firm’s European business and has led its award-winning “Employer of Choice” strategy in the UK. Prior to that, she was an audit partner specialising in the food, drink and consumer goods sectors.
MF Global
The futures and options broker has named Peter Forlenza as global head of equities, effective immediately.
Forlenza was previously global head of equities at Bank of America, and also recently founded Outpost Investment Group, a multi-asset class global macro hedge fund based in New York.
Phoenix Partners
The interdealer credit and equity derivatives broker has hired Colm Ryan to build its European high grade cash business and develop its existing high grade CDS business.
Ryan joins Phoenix after five years at RBS where, as a managing director, he established and ran hedge fund sales in all credit products.
Prior to that, he was at Goldman Sachs for three years as co-head of UK bank sales for all credit and derivative products.
Macquarie Capital
The banking group has appointed Sam Small as a senior managing director, responsible for heading up mergers and acquisitions for its European advisory business.
Small has over 15 years of experience in the sector, having most recently been a managing director in the mergers and acquisitions team at Citigroup, where he also held the position of co-head of the corporate finance group. While there, he completed deals including Tata Motors’ $2bn acquisition of Jaguar and Mittal Steel’s €27bn purchase of Arcelor.
Anthony Gold
The law firm has appointed Philip Wallace, a specialist in notary work, as a consultant.
Wallace joins from South London firm Wallace & Co, where he has practised for the past 25 years.
Clearwater Corporate Finance
Chris Smith has been appointed at the corporate finance group as a partner and the new head of its debt advisory and restructuring team.
Smith was previously at HBOS, where he worked for 11 years and led some of the highest profile restructuring cases for the bank.
He initially joined the Bank of Scotland as a graduate trainee and later moved into corporate banking, including five years spent at its private equity arm, Integrated Finance.