City Moves for 21 November – who’s switching jobs at Assurant, Clifford Chance and GPP?
Who’s on the move?
Assurant
Assurant, a global provider of risk management solutions, has appointed Claude Sarfo as its new chief financial officer, Europe. As part of the enterprise finance team, Claude will have responsibility for planning implementing, managing and controlling all financial activities including forecasting, strategic planning, deal analysis, capital management and M&A support. He will also be appointed as a statutory director of Assurant’s core European legal entities (subject to receipt of regulatory approval).
Claude joins from Lloyds Banking Group where he spent almost twelve years in a range of senior finance roles. He has extensive experience in financial management, corporate development, strategy and M&A activity across multiple industry sectors, including financial services, technology and automotive.
Clifford Chance
Leading international law firm, Clifford Chance has elected Jeroen Ouwehand as its new senior partner. Jeroen will succeed incumbent Malcolm Sweeting and serve a four-year term, starting 1 January 2019. Jeroen Ouwehand has been office managing partner for Clifford Chance's Amsterdam office since 2015 and leads the firm's Continental European Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice.
Jeroen was a member of the firm's partner selection group from 2010-2015. He specialises in financial, commercial and corporate litigation and arbitration.
GPP
GPP, the custody, clearing and wealth solutions firm, has announced the appointment of Richard Shiel to its wealth solutions business, where he will take the position of sales and account manager. Richard joins from the custody and clearing sales team at platform securities, part of the FIS Group. In his new role at GPP he will support Tom Wooders, head of sales, clearing and wealth solutions, to onboard new clients onto the company’s wealth management platform. GPP launched its wealth platform in 2017 as a streamlined offering which avoids the challenges associated with legacy infrastructure and third-party technology providers.
The platform is powered by GBO, GPP’s proprietary back-office technology, providing an efficient and nimble solution which can be easily modified for a bespoke service. Richard will also promote GPP’s broader wealth solutions business to wealth managers, discretionary investment managers and IFAs. The business encompasses client relationship and portfolio management technology, a white-labelled client portal and app, tailored client reporting, and access to GPP’s established global execution, settlement and custody services.