City Moves for 7 March 2019 – Who’s switching jobs at Oliver Wyman, Croud and Fieldfisher?
Today's City Moves include Oliver Wyman, Croud and Fieldfisher.
Oliver Wyman
David Gillespie has today been appointed head of UK and Ireland at global management consultancy Oliver Wyman. In his new role, reporting to Davide Taliente, head of EMEA, Gillespie will lead the firm’s UK businesses while continuing to head up its established UK banking and organisational effectiveness practices. An Oliver Wyman alumnus, David re-joined the firm in 2016 after a senior career in UK banking. He is a graduate of Oxford University in Modern History and has completed the Harvard Advanced Management Programme. Taliente said: “Since returning to Oliver Wyman two years ago, David has established himself as a leader of transformation work for major organisations and on organisational agility more broadly. As the UK and Ireland continue to face a highly challenging environment across all sectors, I have no doubt that David will further grow the business by mobilising our partner team to deliver tangible and differentiating support for clients.”
Croud
Global digital marketing agency Croud has announced the appointment of Mark Bond as its chief operating officer. In this newly-created role, Mark will be responsible for overseeing all global business operations. Beginning his career in marketing, Mark went on to spend 18 years at telecoms giant Vodafone UK, where he held several senior roles including both sales and marketing director and UK customer operations director. Mark was a founding director of the mobile operator’s joint venture, Weve, the mobile marketing partnership between O2, Vodafone and EE. Prior to his new role at Croud, Mark held a number of other UK board roles, and was most recently the vice president of airline training consultancy L3. Based in Croud’s London HQ, Mark will oversee the operations teams in global offices across the UK, the US and Australia. He will report into the founder and chief executive, ex-Google executive Luke Smith.
Fieldfisher
Leading commodities lawyer Rashpaul Bahia has joined European law firm Fieldfisher as a partner. Since April 2018, Rashpaul has been advising Morgan Stanley on the build out of its EMEA power and gas trading business. He was previously a partner at Reed Smith. At Fieldfisher, Rashpaul will help build the firm's commodities trading practice. Rashpaul’s energy and commodities trading experience covers power, gas, LNG, oil, coal, metals and agricultural products, and his transactional experience has focused on asset- backed solutions for clients. Prior to five years at Reed Smith from 2013, he also spent over 13 years at McDermott Will and Emery where he became partner in 2011.