CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS
The Salamanca Group
Jeremy Wrathall has been appointed as managing director of Salamanca Resources, the recently formed division of the group that will focus on the metals and mining sector. He joins Salamanca from Renaissance Capital, where he was head of investment banking for the firm’s London operation and had responsibility for metals and mining, focusing on Africa. In previous roles, Wrathall was global head of mining equities at Deutsche Bank and global head of mining equity sales at UBS.
Edison Investment Research
The investment research firm has made three new hires in its international coverage team, based in London. Christian Glennie joins the healthcare team as a life science analyst from EvaluatePharma, Jonathan Goslin joins the financials team from Altium Securities and Colin McEnery moves from BP to join Edison’s oil and gas team.
Ernst & Young
Mark Robertson, formerly global managing director of P&C business services and managing director of UK Insurance at Accenture, has joined Ernst & Young to lead the UK insurance team. Robertson originally joined Ernst and Whinney in 1986 and rejoined in 1997, rising to UK insurance lead for CapGemini Ernst & Young.
HSBC
HSBC has appointed Amit Gupta as chief executive for southeast Asia, HSBC Private Bank. Gupta joined HSBC in India in 1992 and held the roles of senior economist, head of derivatives and head of sales before relocating to Singapore in 2000 to develop the southeast Asian derivatives business. He was most recently treasurer and managing director, head of global markets in Singapore.
Investec
Investec Growth & Acquisition Finance, part of Investec Specialist Bank, has appointed Shaun Mullin to focus on senior debt deals for entrepreneurs and private equity firms. Shaun will report to Ed Cottrell, Head of Investec Growth & Acquisition Finance. Shaun joins from Barclays, where he was most recently a director in the debt finance team.
Morrison & Foerster
Melody He-Chen, a corporate lawyer who specialises in representing investment banks and Chinese, American and international companies, has joined the firm’s Hong Kong office as a partner in the corporate group.
Citi
Saiid Ghobadian has been appointed as EMEA head of OpenCollateral, Citi’s collateral management product solutions division. Ghobadian joins from JP Morgan, where he was in charge of product development for Securities Collateral Management in EMEA.