CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Jonathan Howe, a partner at the accountancy firm, has been appointed market leader of the UK insurance tax practice and a member of the UK insurance leadership team.
Howe has 16 years of experience at PwC and will be leading a team of 10 insurance tax specialist partners and directors. He succeeds Anne Hamilton, who left the firm to join rival Deloitte at the end of April.
Barclays Wealth
The wealth management firm has appointed Alex Freeman, Simon Scott, Karl Moore and Bryan Dix as board directors at Barclays Private Clients International (BPCI) in the Isle of Man.
Freeman has been appointed operations director. Simon Scott becomes risk director and Karl Moore finance director, while Dix joins the board as a third non-executive director.
RBC Capital Markets
The corporate and investment banking group has appointed Kurt Hallead and Greg Pardy as co-heads of global energy research.
The pair will be responsible for coordinating research on macro themes, overseeing expansion of the firm’s global energy research platform.
Mercer
The consulting firm has appointed Alan Baker as chief operating officer and Rupert Brindley as chief architect for its new dynamic de-risking solutions business, which was launched earlier this week.
Baker joins from Oliver Wyman and has also previously worked in senior business development, operational leadership and consulting roles at IBM Business Consulting, Lloyds TSB and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Brindley joins after 14 years with UBS Investment Bank, where he was a managing director focusing on risk management and liability-driven investment strategies.
Pemberton Greenish
The specialist property and private client law firm has appointed William Edwards to its private client team.
Edwards specialises in tax planning, wealth protection, administration of estates, drafting of wills, drafting and management of trusts and applications through the Court of Protection. He qualified as a solicitor in 2004.
Advanced Power Components
The Aim-listed electronic components firm has appointed Joe Stelzer as a non-executive director.
Stelzer, 41, is an experienced industry leader, having previously brought Polaron to Aim and led it through a period of rapid growth until its acquisition by Cooper Industries in 2007.
Since then, he has worked as vice president of Cooper’s global lighting controls business and founded Silver Cloud Capital, a personal investment vehicle and advisory firm.