City Moves for 6 August – Who’s switching jobs at Accor, Citi and KPMG?
Today’s City Moves includes Accor, Citi and KPMG.
Accor
Accor has announced that Karelle Lamouche has been appointed chief commercial officer for Europe. In this newly created role, Karelle will lead Accor’s European commercial team with responsibility for driving the business revenue strategy for the company and its partners across all European markets.
Karelle has been with Accor since 2003, most recently as senior vice president (SVP) for sales and marketing, distribution and revenue management across all its brands in northern Europe, which includes the UK, Benelux and Nordics. Prior to that she was SVP for economy and budget hotels in the UK, with overall responsibility for operations and marketing across the ibis family of brands – Ibis, Ibis Styles and Ibis Budget.
Citi
Citi has appointed Raymond Gatcliffe as head of Citi Commercial Bank for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Based in London, Raymond will report to Sunil Garg, global head of Citi Commercial Bank, and David Livingstone, Citi chief executive officer, EMEA. He will join Citi’s executive committee for the region. Raymond joined Citi in Trinidad in 1994, and has held a number of positions in Latin America, both in the Corporate and Investment Banking businesses, and as Citi country officer (CCO). Most recently, Raymond headed up the Caribbean and Central America cluster for the bank’s newly formed Banking Capital Markets Advisory business, as well as serving as CCO for Caribbean countries. In addition to Raymond’s experience with corporate clients, he has also managed consumer and commercial banking businesses in his prior CCO assignments in Puerto Rico and Panama.
KPMG
KPMG has announced the appointment of Mark Thompson, Serious Fraud Office (SFO) chief operating officer, to its forensic practice. Mark will join KPMG as a special adviser in November in a client facing role, where he will be focusing on major corporate investigations and advising companies on their financial crime prevention programmes. He will also look to bring together other KPMG consulting capabilities in order to provide a broader offer for clients dealing with economic crime. Mark had previously worked for KPMG prior to joining the SFO in 2004 where he has worked in a number of different roles, including being head of proceeds of crime for four years and also acting as interim director after the departure of Sir David Green CB QC in April 2018. In his most recent role as chief operating officer, he has had day-to-day responsibility for running the SFO under the current director Lisa Osofsky.
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