CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS
Neptune Investment Management
The fund management boutique has appointed Robert Pickering, the former chief executive of blue-blooded bank JP Morgan Cazenove, to its board of directors.
Pickering qualified as a solicitor with Allen & Overy in 1984 and joined Cazenove the following year. He spent a total of 23 years with the firm and was appointed as its first chief executive in 2001, leading its development from a private stockbroking partnership into an investment bank.
He retired last year.
CB Richard Ellis
The property group has appointed Paul Lloyd to its real estate finance division in London as head of loan and special servicing.
Lloyd has over 20 years of experience with Hill Samuel, Sanwa Bank, Morgan Stanley and latterly Deutsche Bank, which he joined in 2005. In that role, he led the bank’s commercial mortgage-backed securities European servicing and special servicing platforms.
At CBRE, he will report to Philip Cropper, head of the firm’s real estate finance division.
Santander Corporate Banking
The bank has appointed Tony Alexander, Joe Duane and Michelle Pownall as relationship directors in the East Midlands.
Alexander will focus on real estate finance across the region after joining from RBS NatWest.
Pownall also joins from RBS NatWest, where she was a relationship director in corporate banking, while Duane has over 20 years experience in the industry, having most recently been a relationship director at Fortis Bank.
RCM
The global equity company, part of Allianz Global Investors, has appointed Vipin Ahuja as a senior research analyst to their sustainability research team.
Ahuja will be responsible for stock picking and analysis with a focus on clean technology.
Xchanging
Paddy Byrne has been appointed as head of the UK region at the global business processing firm.
Byrne has been at Xchanging for four years, leading its hosting business.
He has previously held senior positions at firms such as Alexander Howdens, QBE and Sphere Drake, and also worked at HM Revenue & Customs as a member of the technology services board.
CapitalSource
Commercial lender CapitalSource Inc said its founder and chief executive John Delaney will become executive chairman, effective from 1 January.