City Moves for 9 September – Who’s switching jobs at SRIL, Morningstar and Capra Global Partners?
Today’s City Moves includes SRIL, Morningstar and Capra Global Partners.
SRIL
Warren Downey has joined SRIL, the specialist insurance intermediary group that owns Miles Smith and the Underwriting Exchange, as chief executive. Warren joins from Jardine Lloyd Thompson where he spent the past 28 years, most recently as the chief executive of its global private client business. He has held roles across specialist lines of business in the UK, Sweden and Asia. Warren brings extensive industry and client experience and will lead SRIL in its mission to become one of the market leading, independent specialist brokers. SRIL plans to grow organically by investing in innovative new products, in its sales pipeline and talent, as well as leveraging SRIL’s relationships supported by appropriate acquisitions.
Morningstar
Libby Bernick will join Morningstar as head of sustainability, effective today. Libby will lead Morningstar’s global cross-functional environmental, social and governance (ESG) team, working closely with our research, product, marketing, and sales leaders to offer investors tools to align their portfolios with their values as well as to understand the ESG risk embedded in investments. Libby brings more than 25 years of sustainability expertise. She joins Morningstar from Trucost, an ESG analytics firm acquired in recent years by S&P Global, where she served as managing director and global head of Trucost corporate business and, prior to that, senior vice president for North America. There, she led the development of market-leading analytics on carbon earnings at risk and the UN sustainable development goals, as well as award-winning ESG research for the financial services industry on plastics and sustainability. Prior to Trucost, she held sustainability-focused roles at UL Environment, PE-Five Winds (now Thinkstep) and Rhoads Engineering.
Capra Global Partners
Real estate specialist corporate finance business advisers Capra Global Partners has announced that senior financier Chris Holmes has joined the debt advisory business to work alongside Luca Giangolini and the existing team. Chris brings with him over 20 years’ experience as a lender and advisor across multiple European markets and real estate sectors. Previously at Credit Suisse and Unicredit, but most recently head of UK debt advisory at JLL, Chris will focus his expertise and skills on key clients requiring specialist debt raising and restructuring advice. His experience includes arranging bond and bank financing for M&A and LBO-driven activity as well as a wide range of property portfolio and single asset transactions.
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