City Moves for 25 March – who’s switching jobs at MUFG, NB Private Equity and University College London?
Who’s on the move today?
MUFG
MUFG, the Tokyo-based financial group, has appointed John Winter as chief executive of MUFG Securities EMEA and head of MUFG Bank’s global corporate and Investment Banking (GCIB) business in EMEA. John takes up the reins at MUFG following a 31-year career in financial services which has included senior roles at some of the largest banks. An experienced banker and a transformational leader, John will develop and oversee MUFG’s strategy and governance for its securities business across EMEA. He will also be responsible for directing the divisions and functions which deliver client solutions through the GCIB business.
He will work alongside Masahiro Kuwahara, regional executive for EMEA, and Tokyo-based GCIB management. Since rebranding its banking arm to MUFG Bank from Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ almost a year ago, the EMEA platform has continued to push ahead with its integration of client teams and functions. John started his career at Merrill Lynch in 1985 in New York before moving to London in 1992, joining Deutsche Bank in 1996 as European head of debt capital markets. He joined Barclays in 2001 as head of European investment banking and was appointed chief exec of the corporate bank in 2010.
NB Private Equity
NBPE has appointed William Maltby and Wilken von Hodenberg as independent directors as part of the continuing process of refreshing the board of directors.
William brings experience in listed investment trusts, investment banking and private equity to the board of NBPE. He worked for more than 25 years as a corporate financier specialising in leveraged finance and financial sponsors at Deutsche Bank/Morgan Grenfell. He currently serves as chairman of Ekins Guinness. Wilken brings significant experience in private equity, investment banking and senior management to the board of NBPE. He served as chief exec of listed private equity company Deutsche Beteiligungs and its associated private equity funds.
University College London
The Bartlett, University College London’s global faculty of the built environment, has announced Professor Christoph Lindner as its new dean – in the year that The Bartlett marks its 100th anniversary. Prof Lindner will be the 14th dean of the faculty and will succeed the current dean, Prof Alan Penn. The news comes the week after The Bartlett was announced as No 1 in the world to study architecture and the built environment in the QS World Rankings by subject. Prof Lindner is currently dean of the College of Design at the University of Oregon and is renowned for his research in the areas of globalisation and gentrification, brutalist architecture, creative urbanism, and the rise of elevated parks in post-industrial cities.