City Moves for 23 July – Who’s switching jobs at RBC Capital Markets, Capital Group and Ergomed?
Today’s City Moves includes RBC Capital Markets, Capital Group and Ergomed.
RBC Capital Markets
RBC Capital Markets has hired Allison MacKinnon – who will join the European debt capital markets (DCM) business – as a managing director, head of UK corporate DCM. Allison joins from ANZ where she was responsible for DCM, rates, FX, and deposit sales to corporates in the region. She previously ran UK corporate DCM and derivatives at UBS Investment Bank and business development for a leading US fintech in working capital.
Capital Group
Guy Henriques has been appointed head of Europe and Asia distribution of Capital Group, one of the largest investment companies in the world, with assets under management of over $1.9 trillion (£1.52 trillion). He will be based in London and will join Capital Group in November. Guy has more than 30 years of industry experience, and most recently served as head of UK distribution and chief executive for Latin America for Schroders. He also served as head of the Schroders institutional global management team. Prior to this, he was president of Schroders Japan, based in Tokyo, from 2012 to 2016, and was previously their head of official institutions and head of institutional for Asia-Pacific, based first in London and then in Hong Kong. Prior to joining Schroders, he was head of asset management at the Bank for International Settlements where he worked from 1991 to 2006. He had roles based in Switzerland and Hong Kong.
Ergomed
Rolf Soderstrom has been appointed a non-executive director (NED) of Ergomed, which provides specialised services to the pharmaceutical industry. He replaces Peter George who will remain a member of the remuneration and nomination committees. Ergomed has also appointed Dr Jim Esinhart as an NED. Rolf joins as a highly-regarded finance leader with more than 30 years’ experience and a track record of rapidly accelerating the growth of companies into large profitable businesses. He has extensive strategic, operational and international experience, including M&A, fundraisings and disposals. His experience in the healthcare industry as chief finance officer of BTG from 2008 to 2018 will provide valuable insight to Ergomed as it moves into its next phase of growth. Before joining BTG, Rolf was divisional finance director at Cobham from 2004 to 2007 where he was responsible for a portfolio of 17 companies in Europe and the US with combined turnover of £400m. Prior to this he was director of corporate finance at Cable & Wireless. He qualified as a chartered accountant at PwC, where he worked initially in audit and then in the corporate finance function.
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