City Moves for 18 August 2014 | Who’s switching jobs
CWPA
City and Westminster Property Associations announced the appointment of a new executive director, Charles Begley, who will take up his post in October. An ex-journalist and comms expert, he is a senior partner at TTA Property, part of The Good Relations Group and the specialist corporate, consumer and stakeholder real estate arm of top 10 PR agency Chime Communications. He will take over from Jace Tyrrell, working on next year’s gerneral election.
Lotus
Jean-Charles Lievens has joined the sports car specialist’s cars commercial team, to develop the Lotus network in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Lievens has 37 years’ experience, having held senior positions at Toyota and Kia Europe.
Payments Council
Maurice Cleaves has been appointed as the organisation’s interim chief executive. The Payments Council is the body with responsibility for ensuring that payment services work for UK users. Cleaves has over 30 years of banking experience, having held senior positions at Barclays, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan.
Thesis
The asset management firm has appointed Paul Hastings to its business development team. Hastings joins from Sanlam Private Investments, and will be covering the South West region. With 35 years’ experience, he’s previously worked at F&C management and Barclays Global Investors.
Downing
The venture capital firm has appointed Sam Archer to its investment team. Archer joins as an investment director from Bluebox Corporate Finance. He qualified with PwC in 2003, prior to moving into venture and growth capital investing.
Axa Investment Managers
AXA Investment Managers has announced the appointment of Christophe Coquema as global head of client group, replacing Laurent Seyer who has decided to leave the firm. Julien Fourtou will replace Christophe as global head of multi-asset client solutions & trading and securities financing and will join the Management Board.
London Stock Exchange Group
Sharon Bowles has joined the stock exchange operator’s board as a non-executive director. Bowles previously served in the European Parliament and was member of its Economic and Monetary Affairs and Legal Affairs committees.
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