CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS
Barclays Wealth
Calum Brewster has been appointed as a director within Barclays Wealth’s wealth management and private banking business, based in Glasgow. Brewster will join on 21 June from Lloyds Banking Group, where he is head of customer experience and strategy in the life pensions and investment division, responsible for a team of 150 staff. In his new role, Brewster will manage a team of ten private bankers, reporting to Craig Jamieson, head of Barclays Wealth’s Glasgow office.
Lloyd’s
Erik Johnson has joined Lloyd’s of London as the strategy manager in the strategy & business team, moving from Deloitte, where he was an assistant director in the corporate finance insurance practice. Johnson also now represents the Lloyd’s of London market on the Insurance Institute of London’s representatives committee.
Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch Wealth Management has made three hires in its Middle East team. Leila Alameddine joins as market manager for Levant, Shereen Ghobrial joins as regional sales manager, and Utku Balik joins as business strategy and initiatives execution manager.
Barnett Waddingham
The actuary and consultancy firm has promoted seven senior client advisers to partner, taking the firm’s total partners to 50. The new partners are: Mark Futcher, Paul Hubbold, Julian Mainwood, Ben Pullen, Ben Roach, Vanessa Smart and Ruth Thomas.
AMP Capital Investors
Scott Davies will join the investment management company in July as global head of infrastructure. Davies will join from Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group, where he has been chief executive since 2002.
Lloyds TSB
Simon Boddy, formerly of Barclays, has been appointed as regional manager for the bank’s commercial finance team in the East Midlands.
BlackRock
The asset manager has appointed Gary Smith as head of pensions administration services to lead the development of BlackRock’s defined contribution business. Most recently, Smith served as a member of the DC executive team at Towers Watson.
Gore Browne
The discretionary investment manager has appointed Chris Rogers and Simon Jackson as investment managers, based in the Salisbury office. Both join from Barclays Wealth in Bournemouth.